Who Should Carry Torch of European Games?

The stormy public reaction to the government's decision to make a list of torchbearers for the European Games does not subside. Against this background, almost everyone thinks about the question who should carry the torch, or whom I would offer to carry it.

Setting aside the question of the need or the uselessness of this action, we think about how it is organized. If you recall a similar level of competition - the Olympic Games in different countries and in different periods, in many cases, the issue became a topic of public discussion. That is, there was some discussion that defines the priorities and parameters. In this case, nothing happened, and on the contrary someone made a list and decided that it will be so. Who made the list and who approved it is not hard to guess. Here is the result of the Family Council.

It is not difficult to imagine that the torch at the Olympic Games in Athens was carried by, say, Demis Roussos, in Los Angeles – by Michael Jackson, in London – by Eric Clapton, etc. All of them were figures of musical culture of the world level.

And what will we have? Will it be a 72-year-old woman with heart disease, which does not sing, cannot run, but can only walk?

And indeed, does this nation not have any people worthier than representatives of show business and musicians?  Is this our most valuable option?

In all countries, the torch is carried by famous athletes - active ones and veterans. If we want to distinguish, we should have thought it over.

Today I have stumbled upon a Facebook publication by a user Zaur Yakubov. This young man believes it would be right to hand over the torch of the Games to the disabled and veterans of the Karabakh war. It is a wonderful idea that deserves full support.

Among the torchbearers we will not see the first Azerbaijani conqueror of Everest Israfil Ashurly and many other worthy people who represent Azerbaijan worldwide.