There's an amazing story of an Iranian-Mongolian judoka, named Saeid Mollaei, who has just won the Silver Medal at the Olympics, which he dedicated to Israel. Two years ago, he competed on behalf of Iran. He was supposed to compete against an Israeli but was banned from doing so and forced to withdraw from the competition. Understandably, he was discontent about this and left Iran for Mongolia, and currently represents Mongolia, yet he still decided to dedicate his recently-won silver medal to Israel. One must wonder where he gets the courage to do such a thing, considering that he is exposing himself and his family to possible threats. This inner strength he seemingly has, to go against the authorities, clearly indicates his love of sports and his drive for it all to work out only according to the laws of sports, accepting no limitations in order to win the fight. The question which then arises is whether “pure sports” could help toward easing poor relationships between countries. Seemingly, in such a way, each athlete would be willing to open their heart and physically enjoy being able to break another limit of human ability, as if they compete against God, against nature, such that God limits us inside this body, and they rise above these limitations. There is a tremendous pleasure in it, egoistic, of course, but tremendous. When they stand at the Olympics getting their medals, one would assume that their feelings would be such that we fought against the boundaries that the Creator set for man. And we've broadened these boundaries, proud that we've lifted man above his own ability.