Since Friday morning, most of the News Papers in Kabul have dedicated their front pages for publishing the good news of our Olympic representatives’ achievements in London 2012 Olympic Series. There are three of our representatives in Olympic who have featured the top headlines of the news papers in Kabul since the beginning of the Olympic Games in London. The nation throughout the country has been voraciously following their competition in Olympic Games and are proudly designating them the “National Heroes.” They really deserve the title.

Tahmina Kohistani, the first Afghan lady athlete entered the ring for running 100m. She got out of ring during the first round. But most of the viewers worldwide appreciated her participation in Olympic and encouraged her via social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

Though, she did not get the chance of entering the second round of competition, but her presence in Olympic Series worths more than many medals she could get for Afghanistan, particularly for Afghan women. Naser Ahmad Bahawi entered the ring to compete in Taekwondo.

Despite doing his best, due to an injury to his leg, he could not win the medal that he deserved. Finally, Ruhullah Nekpai who has been Olympic medalist since 2008 won the Bronz medal. Our representatives in London Olympic proved for the world that Afghan people deserve more than just hosting the great game of politics which has victimized this poor nation for decades.

We have long been designating our religious and political leaders as our heroes, but have never considered of finding any better alternative. It is for decades that our nation has been the victim of ethnic conflicts and our so called national heroes have not been able to develop any kind of national ideologies among the nation that we are a single nation and Afghanistan is our collective home.

But recently, our sport teams have proved to be the alternative replacement of the national heroes. They have created such an ideology for the people that we are representing Afghanistan as a single nation not as a Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara or Uzbak. Considering such a scene in Kabul that all the nation untidily cheer up for the achievements of their representatives in Olympic is really pleasant and hopefully, the idea of defining themselves as an Afghan will last forever, not only during the Olympic games.