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This week, the world converges on Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
“Ten thousand athletes will be here from 200 different countries,” said Gérald Caussé, Presiding Bishop for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “Imagine — that’s the whole world that has come to Paris.”
Bishop Caussé, a native of Bordeaux, France, joined Peter Vidmar (a two-time Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics) and Jimmer Fredette (who will participate in the Paris Olympics 3×3 basketball for Team USA) in a devotional broadcast from Versailles on Sunday, July 21, 2024, for youth throughout Europe.
“[Olympic] athletes are an incarnation of the universality of the values that unite all these countries,” Bishop Caussé said. “These are values that are close to the values of the gospel — especially the fact that all the sons and daughters are united together for the same event, to celebrate the same thing — something that’s absolutely remarkable, which echoes what we preach: to have a world that’s divided and conflicted see that the people of the world can be reunited. It fills us with joy.”
Vidmar, a member of the Young Men General Advisory Council, urged the youth to pray, have faith and never give up. He said he was able to dedicate 12 years of his life to gymnastics because his coach had faith in him and taught him to work.
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