What could be more symbolic of peace than the Olympics?

I lived in the city that hosted the XIV Olympic games and now, I live in the city that hosted XVth Olympic games.
I was a kid during XIVth games, got my first job then, at the Olympics, watched Mahre brothers and Bill Johnson win alpine skiing events, missed Ingemar Stenmark and Marc Girrardelli who were banned from competing in Sarajevo. I was a kid, I was pure and innocent.
30 years after, the new Olympics are starting tomorrow, and I am not a kid anymore. I am not pure and innocent anymore. Sometimes I think I am contaminated, labeled, stereotyped, and that I must fight to be myself. I am “free”.

Start of Sarajevo Olympic Downhill

The XXII Winter Olympics are starting tomorrow, and I am not sure if I will watch it on media available here. I am not sure if I will be able to see the essence of the Olympics, competition, unification of people, celebration of diversity, fair play and pure sport. The most, I crave is to see that evasive peace that is propagated by the Olympics.
Last 7 days I watched our media channels and I've been trying hard to find any story that would propagate friendship, peace, intelligence, sport, something gentle and beautiful. If anyone knows any of these positive stories, I would love to hear them. I am definitely looking for them myself.
I don’t want to sound negative, as I am generally positive person, but this lack of sensitive Olympic stories makes me feel robbed of Olympic spirit. Somehow it feels that there has been a propaganda war against the host. And that puzzles me - the cold war was over long time ago, and it is confusing for me, who are we fighting against now?

Panathenaic Stadium, Athens

I've had a great professional respect for Canadian journalists, and I am afraid to lose it. I cannot understand how and why these people cannot find anything positive about the host? 
Some of them have quite a professional pedigree, lived in and experienced different cultures, they even originate from different backgrounds, but yet, they spread alarming amounts of (I even don’t know how to call it) garbage and dirt about the host (of course that there is dirt and garbage, and some of it is worth to fight to be removed, or fixed, but could we please just stop talking about it for 2 weeks? Could we just let them take care of their own yard?).
Could we just give these new generations something different, positive; something that potentially could create more trust and paint friendlier pictures? Something that will bring peace?
What could be more symbolic of peace than the Olympics?
How did these journalists allow their brains to become fat, their consciousness to shrunk, their awareness to become so small, and their views so limited? Perhaps, it is not possible to remove cultural and social brainwashing, but could it be possible to just be nice and accepting, during these special 17 days, and do this every 4 years? For sake of future generations? And in the meantime to work together on all these problems.
Could they be kind?
Why stray dogs, corruption, excessive costs, rights of gay population, unfinished infrastructure (just to mention a few that I also support to be fixed with all of my being), or doping “glory” of former Soviet athletes are so important at this moment, so they take precedence from athletes of our time, and sports, from things that Olympics are about?
Why to talk about Gulags, steroids for former soviet athletes, KGB, and other nonsense that has nothing to do with these Olympics?
What is the goal of such media reporting? Why do they need to influence people in this country with such negative image of the host country? Who ordered this kind of reporting to commence? 

Whistler

Why is this kind of "product" we've been served more important than simple, sport oriented news?

Do we really need to know who from the politics stage came and didn't come to Sochi?

More than 3000 athletes from more than 80 countries are so attractive and so interesting, that there could be so many written stories about them that the public wouldn’t be able to keep up with it.

They and their families and many passionate people invested years and years of unprecedented work and effort to compete in Sochi. Can you imagine how much work has been invested? And still, many were talking about a "boycott". That tells a lot about their generosity.

Imagine if Carl Lewis were allowed to compete in Moscow in 1980, he could've won gold medal in long jump in five consecutive Olympics.

Obviously, to be fair, as civilization, we have to deal with these issues, as I already wrote, but could we please just give some break too all athletes? And to hosts that are a bit different from us?

Isn’t a possibility that Bode Miller could equal Andre Kjetil Aamodt record haul of 8 Olympic medals in alpine skiing a good enough story? Good product to sell? Or any story about brave women who will be competing for the first time in ski jumping?

I could name so many inspiring athletes and their stories here that I could probably run out of “ink”, and I am not even a journalist, or a “foreign” correspondent. I just love sports and I am not blind.

Olympic plague in Tianjin

It is interesting how similar rhetoric were used during summer Olympic games in Beijing. The host was mutilated and it felt as the host was responsible for everything bad that happened, was happening and will happen in the world. Interestingly enough, when the next Olympics happened in London, everything was great and shiny, and beautiful and perfect. 

Ski jumps in Sarajevo

Obviously same thing happen when we had our Olympic games in Vancouver. Everything was great and shiny, and beautiful and perfect. I was proud to be part of this country, to live in it, to pay taxes, to spend best years of my life here. We were allowed to keep our garbage for ourselves. Why can’t we just give them a break? Why can’t we just “lower shields” and be nice to them? Why can’t we accept them for who they are? Why do they need to dance the way how we play? I wish I knew why. I am not capable to understand it. Or I understand it perfectly.