Every Olympic medalist is handed a similar bouquet of flowers when they take the podium. Those flowers have meaning: They were all grown in the regions of Japan that were devastated by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear reactor meltdown.
Valentina Rodini and Federica Cesarini of Italy pose with the gold medal in the lightweight women's double sculls final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 29, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. — Of course, an Olympic medal has significance. But the bouquet of flowers that every medal winner is being handed at the Tokyo Olympics has deeper meaning. Much deeper.
About 18,000 people died in the catastrophe that hit the prefectures of Iwate, Fukushima, and Miyagi. The recovery is still on-going from that day — March 11, 2011. In Miyagi, parents who lost children in the disaster planted sunflowers on the hill where their children sought refuge from the tsunami. The act of remembrance has also been told in a children’s book.
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