This man is a champion all round.
One of Britain’s leading Paralympic athletes said this week that “of course” there should be a minute’s silence at the opening ceremony of this year’s Rio Olympic Games, in memory of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered in Munich at the 1972 Games.
Ade Adepitan, who was awarded an MBE for his services to disability sport, told the Jewish News: “It was an atrocity which was committed in the Olympic Village, and of course that’s how we should remember and commemorate within the Olympic world”.—-
Mr Adepitan, a wheelchair basketball medallist (at the Athens Games and the Paralympic World Cup) was one of two guest speakers at the annual dinner held by the UK Friends of Yad Sarah, the Israeli charity whose principal work lies in lending wheelchairs and crutches to those in need.
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He said he was “honoured” to be addressing the charity, particularly after listening to the other guest speaker, Dan Alon. Mr Alon [full story next week] is a former Israeli fencer who was one of the very few to escape when Palestinian terrorists stormed the Munich Olympic Village, resulting in the eventual death of 11 Israeli athletes.
In other news, it is rather sad we live in a world where speaking out as a decent human being means you deserve to be singled out for praise.
