by Peace and Sport | May 18, 2018 | Watch
I wasn’t predestined to become a pole-vaulter. I could even have missed out on athletics altogether. I began playing sport very early in life, around 5 years old, and I started with gymnastics. I practiced it for 10 years until getting to Masters level. At 15, I...
by Peace and Sport | Apr 4, 2018 | Watch
The PyeongChang Olympic Games provided a forceful and eloquent illustration: sport can succeed where politics fail. The sight of the two Koreas walking together in a procession transmitted a worldwide message of peace and harmony. In the passage of time, there will be...
by Peace and Sport | Mar 12, 2018 | Watch
I was born in Benin, Africa. It’s a poor country, with sparse conditions for playing sport and even more limited training resources. That’s how it was when I was young. And things have hardly changed since then. Despite all this sport was a dream for me...
by Peace and Sport | Mar 5, 2018 | Watch
Major sporting events don’t only have winners and losers. They don’t only have the power to bring people together in stadiums or in front of their televisions. They inspire entire generations. And they do even more than this. Major sporting events can open the door to...
by Peace and Sport | Feb 27, 2018 | Watch
There’s a special image that will always make us think of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: two athletes – a man and a woman – from the Korean delegation enter the stadium at the opening ceremony. One is from the South, the other from the North, both...
by Peace and Sport | Feb 12, 2018 | Watch
Last friday, the entire world had its eyes turned towards Pyeongchang. Everyone watched the splendid pageant of the 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony with excitement and emotion. During the delegations’ procession, they saw 166 Korean athletes walking in...