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At an extraordinary Olympics, acts of kindness abound

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By SALLY HO

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All good and fine but just waiting for the games to finish on 8 Aug and tired of such PR stories to shift public opinion 24 X 7 across all media channels without any focus on Corona explosive growth

-1 ( +17 / -18 )

Wonderful leadership from the Olympians.

Thank you.

2 ( +15 / -13 )

And NOW, media wants to highlight ‘acts of kindness?!?! - You wouldn’t know it by the way some media has handled things lately.

5 ( +16 / -11 )

Oh my so many frustrated people on this board.

Seriously there are litterally hundreds of articles criticizing these games, and thus without counting COVID-19-related pieces.

This is just some different point of view by the Associated Press that tries to show a little brighter side of these Olympic Games. With everything the world had to face the past year, do we really need to spit on everything, including an article talking about "act of kindness"?

-1 ( +14 / -15 )

Wonder if any Japanese actually saw it and realized it

16 ( +20 / -4 )

Acts of kindness, yes.

Extraordinary Olympics? Er.. no.

0 ( +11 / -11 )

Some people will fall for this PR.

2 ( +12 / -10 )

Readers, there is no need to post negative comments on this thread. It is petty.

The moderator has it right.

It is a shame that so many people can't do nothing but find negativity in everything, even something that is meant to be uplifting.

-11 ( +8 / -19 )

These are nice stories and what the Olympics are about in my opinion. Coming together as humanity.

-7 ( +6 / -13 )

Doesn't everyone realize it's the "air" of Japan? The break out of kindness happening here is due to the omotenashi atmosphere of the organizers and volunteers!

Cheers and kudos to the people of Japan for their thoughts of goodwill and love!

(Oh and go home as fast as you can, so we all can go back to blaming Suga for holding the games during the pandemic here!)

3 ( +6 / -3 )

Can't wait to see the women's volleyball starting in about 30 minutes! it would also be nice if Japanese TV showed the women's volleyball games where Japan isn't playing as well. I think everyone likes women's volleyball.

-1 ( +4 / -5 )

Contrary to what the local government obviously expects of what the media portrays in this article, in recent days, it’s as if media has been discouraging the kindnesses extended to ALL athletes and encouraging partisanship between readers.

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