OLY PLY* CITIES 28 ('OPC 28')

Re-light symbolic Olympic & Paralympic flames (real or proxy) before each new set of Games to celebrate their core PEACE Mission. Flames are lit in unison on the first day of the biennial 'Olympic Truce' (1 week before  Opening Ceremonies). 

Promote OLY PLY PEACE Values in public events organized by Host City Teams using OPC 28 Materials. Led by athletes, mayors, venues, and inspired stakeholders, events can happen on one day or throughout the entire Olympic Truce period.

Create optional Add-On Events & Activities for youth, sport clubs, schools, tourists, companies, and others. Thesae can highlight a Host City's unique sites, history, and culture based on local needs, interests, and resources. 

• Host Cities keep Olympic & Paralympic Spirit and Flames alive and vibrant, long after the competitions end and the Games move on. 

• Cities renew the magic of hosting the world's most inspiring sporting event, gathering people once again from near and afar to celebrate cherished venues, ideals, and memories. 

• Local OLY/PLY stakeholders - athletes, officials, volunteers, citizens, venues, clubs, businesses, tourism groups, media, PEACE partners, sponsors, and others - create a new, exciting, localized tradition around the Games.

• This global community unites with purpose around a greater cause: building 'a more peaceful and better world' through sport and Fair Play (Olympic Charter).

• All key assets of the international  Paralympic/Olympic movements - people, places, and principles - are utilized to their best and fullest. 

• Host Cities serve as enduring, sustaining, and accessible Platforms of PEACE, forever reminding the world and future generations of the Games' core goals, values, and traditions.  

• Sport and the Games are reaffirmed as ways to serve PEACE, accessibility, goodwill, community, and humanity. 

• Host Cities of the Games  globally united in re-lighting symbolic PEACE flames (STEP 1), organizing public events/venues to promote OLY PLY PEACE Values (STEP 2), and designing additional local programs and activites based on needs and preferences (STEP 3). 

• OPC 28 launches at LA28, with activities culminating on Olympic Truce Day --  one week before Olympic Opening Ceremonies.

* 63 and counting as of 2026.

• Work with all Host City Teams to design fun, exciting, and non-political ways that highlight their unique sites, traditions, and experiences.

• Build database and infrastructure to identify, reach, and (re)engage local and global enthusiasts, sponsors, and PEACE partners.

3. Support Host City Teams with downloadable, templated OPC 28 materials.

• Independent, athlete-led, locally-driven, and volunteer-based organization supported by a Global Advisory Board and 4 Regional Organizing Committees.

• Partner with PEACE groups, sponsors, and other Olympic & Paralympic entities (such as the IOC, IPC, NOCs, OCOGs, WOA, WUOC, etc.) and events (such as the June 23 Olympic Day).

• Exchange ideas, questions, and suggestions with enthusiasts like you to make OPC 28 better! (see contact info here).

• OPC's new "Street Medallion" program works with Host Cities to create customized decorative manhole covers celebrating their  OLY PLY PEACE Cities participation.

• Based on the OPC Values Shield, Street Madallions placed in a central meeting place of a Host City tell a story about the locality and promote civic pride through colorful words, images, and designs. 

•  Manhole covers are a familiar sight around the world. In Japan they have become an art form, growing into region-specific attractions used to revitalize local areas and as assets for tourism. 

• What started in the 1980s as a local trend has grown into a countrywide tourist phenomenon.

• Today nearly 95 percent of Japan's 1,780 municipalities sport specially designed covers -- an estimated 6,000 artistic manhole covers nationwide. 

• Interested Host City Teams and corporate sponsors can contact the OPC 28 Team (see below) for more information.