"Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth."

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Source : "Africa’s Olympic Potential" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

Richard Attias

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“I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.”
“I'm an old-fashioned theatre major at heart.”
“Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.”
“If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn`t stand a chance!”
“You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.”
“I am not bothered about fashion's speed-up. I find it quite exciting!”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If our worship isn't visible, comprehensive and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty and cheap.”
“We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.”

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