Today is a sad day

Today is a sad day for all of us who constitute Blogsfarm. In particular, for those who write from Madrid and the Canaries, and we feel very closely what happened during the day yesterday.

Yesterday, Wednesday 20 August, the flight JK-5022 of the company Spanair to Madrid-Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (specifically an MD-82) crashed into a stream of T4 Barajas (Madrid, Spain), leaving behind a total of 153 dead and 19 wounded.

In it were a total of 172 people, 162 passengers and 10 crew, including many children and 2 babies.

Today the skies of Gran Canaria has been dyed a strange white, white light for all those people who marched yesterday enveloped in clouds of pain and rage.

Pain, because nobody can ever endure such a tragedy. Rabies, because nobody can understand why a plane had problems just a few minutes earlier, took off for a death that nobody expected.

But today is a strange, painful, sad, bitter. Today we feel very close to tragedy, and we are close to the victims and all their families. Many residents of Gran Canaria, an island that has been dyed mourning and crying at how 153 passengers left without a chance to say goodbye.

Today, too, is a day of criticism, of a savage criticism, wildly, to the International Olympic Committee. An Olympic Committee seems to be rather formed by wild animals without heart or soul, that people.

Because there are people who deny the right to mourning, respect for the victims, and prevent the Spanish flag in the Olympic Games in Beijing flew at half mast, and that our athletes play with a black ribbon.

But what to expect from a committee that allows an Olympics in a country where there is neither democracy nor freedom of expression? In a country where censorship is the order of the day? "That seized thousands of Tibetan monks who simply demanded their rights? What the whole world lies in an opening ceremony with montages, doctored images, and moments recorded in deferred?

What to expect from a committee that allows Denmark wins with a boat that is not theirs, that the Chinese do not have the required minimum age, a Muslim athlete participates ears covered up? That's it, right?

Today is a sad day, and the IOC did not deserve any respect. And I do not know what will actually happen, but the present writer, at least from this very moment, will see the dirtiest Olympics in history.