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Currently, the 33rd modern Olympic Games are being held in Paris, and our country has the opportunity to win its first gold medal. The Olympic Games were originally a religious festival, held every four years in the Greek sanctuary of Olympia in honor of the god Zeus. If the ancient Olympic Games, the origin of Olympism, are being held now, then there will be a world truce during the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Imagine that in the Sahel, Sudan, DRC, Somalia, Ethiopia, Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Israel, Russia, etc., there will be no more fighting, no more wars, no more deaths until the end of the game. Some will say that it will be a short truce lasting one month. But the fact that all the warring parties agree not to fight will be a good start and a source of hope. It will show that all doors are not closed, we can talk to each other, and peace has not disappeared from the screen, but still remains somewhere in the heart.
According to some sources, the Olympic Games and sports were a means of saving Greek cities from war. People were not supposed to fight and kill each other, but were called to a healthy competition of bravery and honor. Seeing sports as a means of preventing war is an amazing and moving pacifist idea that we should not ignore. These noble letters of sports, the values of sports, we all know in Africa, but we do not often practice them in the field of leadership. On the other hand, African athletes have written their own history by succeeding in stadiums around the world with talent, honor, integrity and fair play in competition with other athletes. Even if Africa has produced talented sports people, at the organizational level it is still troubled by the low number of Olympic medals and the fact that it has not hosted a football World Cup.
How can we succeed without a good governance structure? Shouldn’t the values of sports ethics be binding on the entire sports community? Isn’t respect for values by all the way to success? How can we measure the presence of sporting values in our country when the most popular sports federation in Burkina Faso is renewing its institutions?
Sports are one of the greatest achievements of humanity and politicians dream of profiting from it. In Africa, conflicts between sports ministries and football federations often make headlines. The latest one is between Samuel Eto’o, president of the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot), and the Cameroonian Ministry of Sports.
The universal value of sports
Let’s look at some of the values of sport, the forgetfulness and neglect of which are the source of the problems of the world of sport. He is not an athlete who sees sport as an exercise for the body and only for the body. The values of sport promote balance and harmony between body and mind. It is the search for beauty and goodness, for an athletic body and a mind with human virtues, expressed in the formula “a healthy mind in a healthy body”. If sport is so loved by its practitioners and followed by thousands or even more than a billion people, it is because of the presence of values such as fairness, teamwork, equality, discipline, inclusion, perseverance and respect.
Sports, in terms of values, is where most men dream of living. In sports, just by virtue of your talent, you can become a star, a king, a queen, regardless of your social, racial, religious, national origin… In sports, nothing is about going forward, your destiny depends on you and your friends. The team. Through your individual and collective efforts, your surpassing of yourselves, your excellence, your sports practice of friendship and respect for your opponents, you achieve victory, which is first of all a victory over yourselves.
Bringing elections into line with sports values
In Burkina Faso, the Burkinabe Football Federation will hold its electoral congress in Ouagadougou on August 31, 2024. It’s an election, a competition, nothing could be more normal in the world of sports. Competition is part of the DNA of athletes and sports leaders. Being competitive is a desire to improve, to set ambitious goals, to excel, to grow and develop. The presence of competition, of opponents, of competitors is more of a catalyst for performance than an obstacle or barrier to success. This is how athletes win and break records. Let’s take the best chance of winning a gold medal at the Olympics, Yves Fabrice Zango, a competitive man who excels in multiple areas of life, triple jump and the research he has carried out during his sports career to obtain a doctorate in electronics. He is not afraid of his competitors because he comes from a poor country and he has a will of steel and strong muscles.
In sports, we look for strong opponents. We cannot imagine winning without danger, without effort, because then there would be no glory. Sports cannot teach us an easy life, without effort, without hard work through pain and toil. What works for grassroots athletes and does not work for managers? We should bring peace and tolerance back to this sport, because in Coubertin’s view, in sports, it is not the victory that matters, but the battle.
Sanaa Gaye
Lefaso.com
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