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Beauty Of Olympic: Unity And Humanity At Its Peak by dfrost: 7:40pm On Aug 18, 2016
North and South Korea gymnasts at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games have shown the world a brief moment of unity, in the form of a selfie.

Lee Eun-ju of South Korea and Hong Un-jong of the North took a quick smiling snapshot during the training period before the start of the Games. The pictures of the two women have been widely praised as capturing the Olympic spirit. North and South Korea are technically still at war with each other and relations between the two have been more tense in recent months, with recent missile launches from Pyongyang.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37018914

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Re: Beauty Of Olympic: Unity And Humanity At Its Peak by dfrost: 7:44pm On Aug 18, 2016
Would you stop to help a fallen runner during your 5,000 metre race in the Olympics? Not many people would – but in a moment that defines Olympic spirit, one person did.

New Zealand’s Nikki Hamblin fell just over halfway into her race on Tuesday, accidentally tripping up American athlete Abbey D’Agostino with around 2,000m left to run.

D’Agostino, 24, quickly got back up, but, rather than carrying on with the race, she stopped to help her competitor who remained on the ground after falling hard on her shoulder.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/16/sport/rio-2016-nikki-hamblin-abbey-dagostino-olympic-spirit/

honeric01 and semid4lyfe let's show the world that winning is not all that matters but unity and humanity that is found in the Olympic principles - that it's "a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind."

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