GLIMPSES: Medalists' bouquets hold deeper meaning for Japan

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.

rhcm123 I hope they don't glow in the dark

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That’s goood but I can’t help think..Are they clear from radiation? I’m assuming so🌸🌺

Yay radioactive plants ftw! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Radioactive flowers? What could go wrong?

eat the flowers and get powers

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Oh,there are good I think japanese must keep them

At night, they turn into flashlights.

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Great meaning for kiwis also as the earthquake of 2011 in Christchurch devasted that beautiful South Island city. It was all connected.

Nuclear Flowers! 💐 💀

I totally had the feels for this tweet... until the last line

Hey.. glow in the dark flowers

they should also give them bottled water from the reactor cooling system that is about to be spilled into the ocean, it's safe right?

They glow in the dark

Toxic flowers?

What? They're passing out radioactive flowers at the Olympics?

Handing out Radioactive flowers seems a little sus.

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