「８月６日に黙とうを」　松井広島市長、ＩＯＣバッハ会長に要請文

　広島市の松井一実市長は２９日、東京五輪の選手や大会関係者に対し、原爆が投下された８月６日午前８時１５分に合わせて黙とうするよう要請する文書を、国際オリンピック委員会（ＩＯＣ）のバッハ会長宛てに送付した。
　要請文はバッハ会長の広島訪問に触れた上で、「可能であれば、選手や大会関係者の皆さまにも、何らかの方法で被爆の実相に触れていただきたい」と記載。「黙とうをささげることで、心の中で平和記念式典に参加してほしい」と呼び掛けた。
　市平和推進課によると、前回のリオ五輪では、同時刻が開会式に当たっていたこともあり、黙とうの時間を設けてほしいと要請したが、受け入れられなかった。（2021/07/29-18:39）

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui has requested that athletes and others at the Tokyo Olympics observe a moment of silence at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, the exact time when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the western Japan city in 1945.
   In the written request, which was sent on Thursday to International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, now visiting Japan for the Games, Matsui mentioned Bach's visit to Hiroshima earlier this month and expressed his hope to provide, if possible, an opportunity also for athletes and others at the Olympics to learn about the atomic bombing in some way.
   Matsui said that he wants Olympic participants to join in spirit this year's peace memorial ceremony to be held in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 by observing a moment of silence.
   According to the Hiroshima city government's peace promotion division, the city had asked that the previous 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics include a moment of silence to remember the tragedy in Hiroshima.
   The request, however, was denied as the exact time of the bombing fell during the opening ceremony.