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Very excellent essay! Thank you Omar!

I hope some day you can visit Viet nam, my country, to have another wonderful essay! hero hung :))

Hi Omar,

you're not just excellent at English writing: you're even a talented story teller.
You are the gift to make the reader feel as if he really living the event you are talking about. Congratulations !
Have you ever thought of publishing a novel ? I 'm sure it might be a big success.
Of course!

Coming back to your today blog, please , believe me, I was really moved by its content, while reading.
We - I mean all the west world people- too often forget how much we are lucky living in an independent and democratic country. In other words we don't take care enough freedom we have.
The colourful celebration of South Sudan people should remind us that this value is not granted worldwide.
Waiting for next post.

Andy4

Hi Omar!

It’s a very touching story. I’ve watched the marathon on TV and of course I was deprived of those strong emotions that fans in London could feel. Nevertheless you described your impressions so vividly that I could imagine the atmosphere. Besides I learnt many facts about the South Sudan from your story. And I think your English is so good that you don’t have to fret about it while speaking with your foreign colleagues.
Returning to the Olympics I think that the marathon is one of the most exciting competitions. Athletes are on the threshold of exhaustion but they show strength of character and display courage and desire to win. They give us unforgettable experience.
In two years we take over the Winter Olympics in Sochi. I hope it will be a real fest for fans.

Greetings from Russia
Tatiana

Hello Omar,

you wrote an excellent story again. I had strong feelings too when I read your story. I really hope that South Sudanese will enjoy the peace and I hope they can build a good democracy for their country.

I agree with Andy4. We are very lucky because we live in a land of free democracy. We have a free press and freedom of speech. I hope someday all the people in the world will enjoy this benefit.

For me it's almost impossible to understand why some countries don't want freedom for people and why people don't fight for this freedom. It's impossible to understand.

Anyway I hope peace and love for everyone in this globe.

Regards

- Ompputhecat -

It's a great story, it give us a different and interesting way to see the olympics.
I've started to learn english and I've found this great blog. I hope learn too much and meet new people from other countries with different languages.

greetings from México

Thank you Hung, and sure, I would love to come to vietnam someday!

Andy 4, thank you for your words, I assure you that i'm not so easy to emotion, but that day i was really shaked.

Dear Tatiana, thank you, and hope that olympics in sochi will be great. i'm not so fond of winter sports, but there are a lot of competitions that I enjoy even in winter games, such as biathlon, or short track. and, besides all, it's always the olympics!

Excellent Omar,

I am amazed by your story, it is so touching. You have a perfect story writing skills. I am wondering whether you write stories in your own language or English, if so, did it ever get published? I am just curious to know because you are so good.

You explained your experience at the Olympics so well that I now regret watching it. Though I watched bits here and there but did not fully follow it . To be honest, I always feel sorry for the losing side and sometimes I avoid watching such competitive games. Now that you explained your experience so vividly, I regret watching it. Anyway, I will have to wait for four years to watch it next time hopefully.

Keep up the good work.

Varisha

Hello Omar and all,

I would like to congratulate you for your excellent English, and to thank you for your heartful sympathy towards the weak and the poor. Your accurarte description of the marathon made me follow the event as if I were on the spot. The story of the representatives of South Sudan and of other poor African countries is actually heartbreaking.

I can tell you, however, that African athletes who participate in the olympics as well as in other world sporting competitions do not constitute a representative sample of African populations. These athletes are a minority. They are the most privileged ones whose parents earn enough to provide for their needs especially food and exercise. The majority of people in Africa suffer from hunger, malnutrition, diseases, illeteracy, insecurity, wars, etc.

This is why I suggest that part of the income of all sporting competitions, wherever they take place, should be destined to the fight against hunger, illeteracy, insecurity, and other misfortunes in the poor countries all over the world.

All the best,

Elmansour, from Morocco

I am sorry to write this kind of thinks at here but there are some countries have two faces. Those countries seems very democratic and humanist but at the other hand I see they act as a monster.
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I hope someday peace come all over the world

I think it never comes

Maybe at the paradise

see you

Ali from Turkey

A very touching incident, beautifully written Omar!
It surely made me aware of many things happening around the world. Thank you for enlightening us.

Even I had watched the marathon, because the contestant from our nation was from my town and it was a fabulous feeling watching him. Even though he finished tenth, he was given a hero's welcome. As such occasions just come once in a blue moon in our cricket frenzy nation, India.

There are a lot of issues the under-developed and developing nations are facing. Corrupt government, poor infrastructure and improper utilization of available resources are to blamed.

Let us try our best to alleviate their sufferings.

Regards,
Sumayya, India

Hi Omar, I loved your story, if you one day write a book take for sure I am going to buy it.
See you later.

thanks for your excellent essay, Omar. It's been a long since i read such a good essay like yours. You know, it completely moves me to tears and brings me into where you have been. what's more, your writing skill is extremely vivid and tactful from which i learn a lot.
looking forward to your next writing.

Dear Omar,
I would be very happy to welcome you in Vietnam and to make friend with you as well.
To the moderator: Please send to only Omar my email: [Personal details removed by Moderator]. Thank you so much!

Congratulations Omar for your English and thanks for giving me an emotion. What people need the most in Western country, emotions.
Congratulations also for how you told the magic of Olympics, a competition where winners are exalted but where every competitors can find its little victory and rejoice of it, a metaphor of life.
Greetings
Alessandro

Thank you Omar, it was a really touching piece of writing. I think you have an eye to see where real stories are taking place.

You made me post comment, Omar. You're good writer, wonderful storyteller. It was so touchful that I forgot It's for learning English! Your post gave me a valuable lesson more than a language skill. It was a complete piece of story. I really mean it. I don't know what you do, but I would rush to bookstore if you published your book. Thank you for your post. I'll keep my eye on your story :)

Best regards, from South Korea

Hello Ompputhecat, I'm glad you enjoyed this story, and what you wish is my wish too.

Hello PedroParamo, and Welcome to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ LE!

Varisha,
i also always feel sorry for the losing side but that's not a reason to avoid watching competitive games, it's quite the reverse, because for every competition there is a losing side to stand for! :-)

Hello Elmansour,
thank you for commenting. regarding your proposal, i can add that not only sport competitions should help those causes, but every public evente.

Dear Ali, your point is a little bit out of topic, the only thing i can say is that I'm waiting the day in which also for palestinian people there will be peace in their own land.

Hello Sumayya and thank you for your words. I thinlk I remember the indian guy! i remember i thought "that's strange i don't usually see any indian in any olympic competition!" maybe is for the cricket thing, although i think there are also many other reasons.

To Tenocht, Honeysuckle, Alex, Mauverick and Liu, thank you all for appreciating my story! to whom asked me if i already wrote or published something, i just used to write a blog some years ago (i closed it in 2008) and i only published a little book of questions about the eighties, but i do something else for a living, i'm an environmental consultant.

Hello Hung, and thank you! i'm going to ask your email to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ LE, i hope they will give it to me!

Omar, congratulations! Your blog is really great, very inspirational. I like the way you learn English, but also the way you look at things. Thanks for the comments on the marathon and thanks for waiting for the boy from East Timor! It reminded me an old Polish documentary related to one of the International Peace Cyclist Races which was entitled: The bus with caption 'End'. It was about the very young cyclist who despite the terrible wheather kept going as the last one and was strong enough to get rid of the temptation to get into that bus which was driving just behind him. He was very calm and determined to finish the race, as if he knew that "a loser is not one who runs last in the race. It is the one who sits and watches, and has never tried to run." (Pistorius's mother words).
Best
Ana

Hi Omar,

Reading your blog, I fill that you are good and sensitive man! Your stories are very interesting and fascinating. I’m not good with my English to express all what I wish to say to you. But I’m really happy to read your blog! You have a talent to be a writer and to be interesting for the people from the different parts of the world. It is nice for me to improve my English with your kind blog!

With best wishes you and your family.
Svetlana (Ukraine)

Dear Omar,

I am glad to read your touched story.Thank you very much