Abstract
In 1962, I stood in the stands of the National Stadium in Meiji Memorial Park in Tokyo and surveyed the arena where athletes from many nations will be participating in October, 1964. As I looked at the empty stands to be filled by thousands of cheering people, the urn where the Olympic flame will be lighted, and the expressway to speed spectators to the contests, I thought of how this great international sports festival had the potential, not only for improved East-West relations, but also as an instrument for peace and better understanding among the nations of the world. Then thinking back to Rome, Melbourne, and Helsinki, I remembered how the scorekeepers with their point systems, designed to establish an international winner, were threatening the Greek Olympic Ideal which has guided and made worthy this athletic gathering down through the centuries.
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