20 May 2020 | Message

MEETING WITH A DELEGATION OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL ATHLETICS MEETING “WE RUN TOGETHER – SIMUL CURREBANT”

Library of the Apostolic Palace

[…] Dear friends and dear lovers of sports,
an international athletics meet called “We Run Together – Simul Currebant” was
to have taken place in Castel Porziano last May 21. For the first time, Olympic
champions would have raced with Paralympic athletes, athletes with mental
disabilities, and with refugees, migrants and prisoners, who would also have
served as competition judges. All together and with equal dignity. A concrete
sign of how sport should be a “bridge” that unites women and men of different
religions and cultures, promoting inclusion, friendship, solidarity, education. That
is, a “bridge” of peace. […]