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THE OLYMPIC TRUCE
“Peace is not merely a distant
goal that we seek, but a means by
which we arrive at that goal.”
These beautiful lines
from Martin King means
that peace is not just a
far off goal that every
human being wants to
achieve: rather it is a
means by which
everyone succeeds that
goal.
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Our lives are imbues with faith and hope not as blind
qualities, but as a deep confidence in the rightness of the
path of peace along which we daily walk in order to be
successful in one’s own life.
Thus, sports are one of these ways to achieve excellence
and success. And if we
talk about sports then
how can we forget the
Olympics??
The Olympic Games is a
major international
event in which
thousands of athletes
participate in a variety
of competitions. The
Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s
foremost non-racial sports competition where more than
200 nations participate.
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Today, sport has reached a stage of
global development that no other
human activity can match its impact
on society, irrespective of age and
frontiers, gives it unequalled potential
to mobilize.
WITH THIS UNIQUE POWER TO
UNITE COMES A GREAT
RESPONSIBILITY: TO SERVE PEACE.
The Games have grown in scale to the point that nearly
every nation is represented. Such growth has created
numerous challenges, including boycotts, doping, bribery
of officials, and terrorism.
Th
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ereafter, in order to maintain peace throughout the
world, an Olympic Truce Committee was also set up.
The Olympic Truce is
symbolized by the dove
of peace with the
traditional Olympic
flame in the background.
The Olympic Games not only
serves for peace but also
modernizes transport as
well as infrastructures of
the host city.
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Therefore, people living in slum,
squalid and run-down areas or in
not so developed areas get an
equal opportunity to have
pleasure and enjoy the well
developed infrastructure and
transport of that place.
The Olympic Truce Committee cut across barriers
that divide societies, making it a powerful tool to
support conflict prevention
and peace-building efforts,
both symbolically on the global
level and very practically
within communities.
The Olympic Truce believes in
promoting the initiatives of
VASUDHAIVA KUTUMBAKAM.
This statement not just means
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that the whole earth is a single family in fact it means
about peace and harmony among the societies in the
world.
Let us take the instance of
Cyprus, which got expelled
from Turkey, United Kingdom
and Zurich. But in the
present day’s scenario, as
we all know, United Kingdom,
Turkey as well as Cyprus
participate in the Olympics
despite the fact that Cyprus got divided from them.
Isn’t it a living example for us that the Olympic Truce
committee is capable of uniting the world through peace?
It is not just for Cyprus, it is also applicable for the
case of North and South Korea, and India and Pakistan.
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The Olympic truce also contributed a big hand in the
participation of South Africa in the foremost games by
being against the racial system.
Everybody recognizes the outstanding contribution of
the IOC to the struggle against apartheid and racial
oppression in the African
Continent.
The basic purpose of the
Olympic truce is holding of
hands among the nations as
well as the athletes. It offers
humanitarian support in
countries at war.
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As we are aware that the Olympics games take place
after every four years in different countries; this makes
the athletes travel to that particular place and engulf in
the culture of that country .
It is with the help of this committee that the athletes of one
continent become familiar with the culture, views and
thoughts of the athletes belonging to some other continent.
They come to know more about the cultures of others.
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The athletes chat with each other which also make them
aware of the language of that athlete’s country and his
school of thought!
As a wide spreader of the culture,
the Olympic truce is a very useful
tool in encouraging a particular
festival.
The Olympic Games occurs for
several days, in which
simultaneously a festival of that
own particular country can also take place. So the
guest athletes present in that country also come to now
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about that very festival.
And if they find it impressive, then they also take
initiative to celebrate that festival in their own country.
They discuss about that festival in there and sometimes
also create a blog on the internet.
As an instance, when the commonwealth Games were
being held, the participants got impressed of the
festival called “Dusshera” which was being celebrated
at that time.
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The athletes eat the dishes of that very host country
and enjoy their taste; they also come to know about
spices and flavors of them.
The basic aim of the Olympic truce committee is not
just opting for a well developed country having good
infrastructure, rather its aim is to make that country
have good relations with the other nations.
This will even turn the
terrorists as a well-
wisher of the host
country. He will think twice
before attacking the host
country as his own
countrymen as athletes are already there.
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This would be all because
Of just
“THE OLYMPIC TRUCE”
“The
Olympic
Truce is
not just a committee that
serves peace; it brings nations and athletes
closer to each other!!”
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