Friendship

 Hi Koko, 

You have got a very difficult project from school. You have to say a 5 minute story on friendship. I was not sure what story you would finally present, something from Panchatantra maybe. Eventually you made a story up and presented which was awesome. 

But I thought of telling you this beautiful story of friendship which I only recently read in news. 

The Olympics are on and we are diligently following the games this year. I don't think a better picture of friendship has emerged than the below:



Tamberi from Italy and Barshim from Qatar are high jumpers whose final score could not be settled upon. They were constantly at a tie and the officials on the field finally presented an option to settle it with a jump off. So many years of practice to be settled over just one jump! That's a tough call. 

But for these friends on and off field it was not not so tough. They exchanged a glance and they just knew what they would do. Barshim asked the officials if they could share the medal and since both contenders were willing, they did! Sharing the highest honours, having the trust to come to this agreement without a shred of doubt - if that’s not friendship, then what is?

Love,

Ma


Comments

  1. iraniAugust 6, 2021 at 5:19 AM

    Such nicely told and such a lovely gesture.
    I once read of another such story from 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin. Shuhei Nishida and Sueo Oe of Japan contested in a pole vault where USA got the gold . Due to the exact same score, of the two japanese (nashida and oe) the olympic committee were in dilemma about the silver medal. The jap duo wanted to share the silver but the olympic committee declined and after much deliberation, they gave nashida the silver and oe was given the bronze. But returning to japan, they went to a jeweller, they divided half of the silver and combined it with half of the bronze and kept it to them. It is famously known as the 'medal of friendship'.

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  2. Muthukrishnan RajaramAugust 6, 2021 at 7:53 PM

    :)
    *grin*

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