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Moving towards peace and solidarity through sport
It was cold, very chilly, the evening of the Opening Ceremony of PyeongChang 2018. But spirits were lifted when delegations from North and South Korea marched into the stadium, unified, raising hopes for peace on a peninsula lengthy divided and sparking faith that activity could assist deter, if not diminish, a geopolitical confrontation crackling with anxiety of nuclear doom. In current heritage, this scene – in fact, this spectacle from the 2018 Online games, which then observed the blended North and South Korean women’s ice hockey crew competing with each other – marked a vivid illustration of what the Olympic Constitution can make explicitly very clear is the aspirational…