Olympics in its true spirits is a world sporting event where the best athletes or teams compete and come out as world champions in a factual sense. Olympics represent pride, sportsmanship, competitiveness and friendship, as the finest unite and come under one roof to perform their best. Here every inch or even a nanosecond can cost them a second place or maybe even the last place. Olympics represent unity and peace. This is the only place you will see Israel walking with Palestine, South and North Korea under one roof or Iran hugging arch rival Iraq. Every nations true worth is measured by the number of medals won by their countrymen or women. In Olympics it doesn’t matter if a country is superior in warheads, economy and social status everything is equal at the same level until you see the finish line, where the real superior emerges often called the “winner”.
The Olympics teaches us that we must love, respect and believe in each other. It makes us believe that we can be one “global nation” or a global citizen rather than an American, or a black or a backward caste, inhibiting some of the wasteful notions which divides us. It shows us the real power of women, that women are no less than men and can be as competitive or even better than men in any sport. Here, there is only one language the language of winning, there is only one culture the culture of competition. Olympics also is mix of art, crafts, music and celebrations where people have an opportunity to enjoy, sing and dance together hand in hand shaking a leg to the tunes of friendship and love in togetherness.
It also teaches us some great skills like discipline, time management, team spirit, hard work, focus and good assertiveness. It teaches us to fail and then to improve upon our failures until we get that gold in our laps.
Olympics makes you realize that it is possible to live united as “One World” where there are no boundaries, no religions, no gender inequalities and no politics and where everything is a fair play. We need that kind of world now, if we can live 15 days united like this under one roof and still be happy we can live 150 years or maybe 1500 years.
Since birth we are told that we belong to this country, this religion and a superior caste, we buy our black children black dolls, we tell them that we are the best religion and must hate people who practices another one. In schools we are always taught about boundaries in geography, wars in history and that woman are inferior in biology. When we grow old we learn about greed in business we are taught to bribe since birth. We are trained to kill; we treat someone not born in our country as different. But we are never taught about "world unity"
In Olympics you can see people have similar traits everyone who fails cries, everyone who wins grins, every person has the same habits, similar reactions or emotions. But when we see outside the World of the Olympics we think them as different, we are not ready to accept them and accuse people having a western culture or orthodox eastern habits and seclude them as foreigners.
Olympics is not only a sporting event, it’s a great medium to commune unity. I wait for it every 2 years. Recently the winter Olympics were held in Vancouver. Although, I don’t play any sports that were held in the sporting event, I loved watching it. I learned about several strange countries, saw people with unusual names. I saw Wayne Gretzky carry a torch in the rain and drive down the street in the back of a Silverado. I felt bad for the Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili who died while practicing. I was upset when USA lost to Canada in the most nail biting finish, even though I am not a fan of Ice hockey. Olympics always gives me a character of oneness.
Canada did full justice hosting the games, they were a good host. They performed well in the games and came out winning 14 Golds, the maximum by a country. The city is beautiful. The venues were modern. The transportation was efficient. But this wasn’t about logistics. In the end it’s the people that power the movement mattered the most. The Canadian's pushed these games back from the brink of disaster and right off into history. They managed well the opening ceremony wasn’t as extravagant as the one in Beijing in 2008, but the winter Olympics ceremony was awesome I have never seen such a laser and lights show.
The United States set a new record for the highest total of medals won at a single Olympic Winter Games with 37. It has the maximum number of athletes sent by any country competing in almost all events. US pretty much dominated the games. The Chinese and Koreans emerged and gave tough fights although they are not popular in winter sports.
The Olympic torch has gone dark and games have ended but I am not done yet, I still have to tell you about the events and the people which made these winter Olympics a memorable event so watch out for more soon………
Olympics is not only a sporting event, it’s a great medium to commune unity. I wait for it every 2 years. Recently the winter Olympics were held in Vancouver. Although, I don’t play any sports that were held in the sporting event, I loved watching it. I learned about several strange countries, saw people with unusual names. I saw Wayne Gretzky carry a torch in the rain and drive down the street in the back of a Silverado. I felt bad for the Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili who died while practicing. I was upset when USA lost to Canada in the most nail biting finish, even though I am not a fan of Ice hockey. Olympics always gives me a character of oneness.
Canada did full justice hosting the games, they were a good host. They performed well in the games and came out winning 14 Golds, the maximum by a country. The city is beautiful. The venues were modern. The transportation was efficient. But this wasn’t about logistics. In the end it’s the people that power the movement mattered the most. The Canadian's pushed these games back from the brink of disaster and right off into history. They managed well the opening ceremony wasn’t as extravagant as the one in Beijing in 2008, but the winter Olympics ceremony was awesome I have never seen such a laser and lights show.
The United States set a new record for the highest total of medals won at a single Olympic Winter Games with 37. It has the maximum number of athletes sent by any country competing in almost all events. US pretty much dominated the games. The Chinese and Koreans emerged and gave tough fights although they are not popular in winter sports.
The Olympic torch has gone dark and games have ended but I am not done yet, I still have to tell you about the events and the people which made these winter Olympics a memorable event so watch out for more soon………
