Hafez al-Assad, the eldest son of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, competes in the Rio Olympics. According to a Brazilian newspaper, the boy defended his father by saying, "He knows what kind of man his father is."
Hafez al-Assad, 15, the eldest son of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is currently taking part in the Rio Sports Olympiad, and Brazilian media reported on Tuesday that his participation in the competition proved Syria was "much better" despite the civil war. "We came to show the world that the country is doing better, and even better," he told Brazil's Globo newspaper.
"I know which kind of man is my father ... and as president, people say a lot about him, many of them do not look at reality," he said in excellent English. "I have always lived like an ordinary child and my friends see me as a normal person," Assad's son said.
The newspaper said it had accidentally discovered the son of the Syrian president among 600 participants from 111 countries who had come to Rio de Janeiro.
A tribute to Maryam Merzakhani
Participants in the 58th Mathematics Olympiad held a minute of silence on Monday in honor of Iranian mathematician Maryam Merzakhani, who died two days ago at the age of 40 because of cancer.
Marzakhani was the first woman to win the Fields Prize (2014), the most important prize in this specialty and equivalent to the Nobel Prize for Mathematics. Hundreds of students dressed in Iranian blue dress, who won the Mathematics Olympiad for two consecutive years in 1994 and 1995
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