Horia Ghibuţiu: "At Beijing were shootings for peace - is the best news transmitted from the Olympics which started along with a war."
While the Caucasus was holding a competition of Armoured Vehicles and aviation, at Summer Olympics in China, the representatives of Russia and Georgia have faced yesterday in a peaceful race of shootings, at the event of air pistol. Unlike South Ossetia, the shots from Beijing didn't produce victims to be photographed by the front line reporters. The Russian Natalia Paderina, a girl from the Ural, and Georgian Nino Salukvadze, a competitor from Tbilisi, captured the cameras attention after the medals ceremony (for the record only, the competitor from Russia was more accurate and took away the silver medal, while the girl from Georgia took the bronze). For the photographers and a whole planet, the girls embraced and kissed on their cheeks, silencing the Caucasus shelling. "For us, the Georgians, is very difficult because of what happens at home. It was nice that Natalia Paderina came to me and shook my hand. Yesterday (Saturday), I thought that the Georgian delegation will withdraw from Olympics... I liss and embrace with many friends throughout the world, and I will always do so. Sportsmen and people shouldn't hate themselves . After all, we are in the XXI century ". The words belong to the bronze winner and is a call to a truce that sport is advancing to the politicians.
The simple gesture of the Olympics pistols is not worthy to be included in the chart of the five circles. It's a sign that life goes forward, as it is attested from the fact that, simultaneously, chairman Michael Saakaşvili talks with the villagers from a settlement located a few kilometers from the breakaway capital of Ţinvali and his wife, Sandra Roelofs, waves the georgian flag at Beijing, during a judo match.
The tought that at the Olympics not only the good but also good triumphs, it's comforting. Do not think that there's no more place for peace at the Olympic races. Saturday, at the series of bras 100 meters for men in the Olympic pool, was peace by absence: the first championship Israeli-Iranian duel since the Islamic revolution from the May 1979 did not took place. Track one, which was to be occupied by the Iranian swimmer Mohammad Alirezaei, remained empty, so the Israeli Tom Beeri has competed in track seven with his mind only at the sportive stake and not to any political competition. However, the abandonment - which occurred discreetly, with a few minutes before the race, and without shades of boycott - is a step forward towards the judo competition of the 2004 edition of the Olympics, when the Iranian Arash Miresmaeili refused to compete with the Israeli Ehud Vaks on the tatami from Athens.
Naturally, the Olympic games job is not to make the apology for world peace, because their are not beauty contests, nor to end any conflict of the world. But if the great celebration of sport can bring into the spotlight gestures of fair play as the one of the girls from Russia and Georgia, maybe it wouldn't hurt to schedule the Olympics, regardless of cost and organizational efforts, more often.
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