Rio Olympics 2016
While this is already Tuesday here as I write this, just a few short days ago at the Rio summer Olympic opening ceremony, one very special group of six young people who hailed from our ‘second’ home entered the stadium representing their country Cambodia in the finest form of pride. We understand that our five grandchildren were caught in the excitement as they watched the opening ceremony and cheered them onward with love and the gusto. Way to go!
Six young people, the pride of their country, will be the stars for a while in the areas of swimming, track and field, taekwondo, and wrestling. Nagaworld is heavily invested in these six, offering them up monetary awards for their medal placement in addition to the fanfare and glory of competing and standing on that podium to receive a medal.
In a country where most people probably have not realized the Olympic games as they are today, stands an empty stadium called ‘The National Olympic Stadium.’ Built in the 1960’s to seat 50,000 it stands empty, never having been used for something like this in all this time. Back then it was part of the new Khmer movement with a Cambodian flair with a worldly flavor. Mostly likely the throngs of the folks to the north will bring forth its demise quite soon in view of some more lucrative results. It’s a sad reminder of the ‘other’ history of this country before the Khmer Rouge came to power for those years thereafter.
Go Cambodia team 6~
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