Opinion: Ex-Olympic discus champ turns gaze to games timeless spirit of truce
July 19, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Olga Fikotova-Connolly (Photo courtesy of the author.) I am writing in appreciation of the countless hours of thoughts and labor by the Tokyo Olympic committee and experts in every trade dedicated to organizing and staging the upcoming Olympic Games. The sweat of your hands and hearts will turn into healing rain, washing away doubts and discouragement. I also express gratitude to the United Nations General Assembly for displaying the United Nations flag alongside the flag of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) a sign of the Olympic Truce. It is a perceptive and courageous decision, because today s world needs peaceful events as urgently as the ancient Peloponnesians in Greece did millennia ago.