While IOC President Thomas Bach commented

This is the room that Bach wrote some of his music for. This is the organ.

The good news was announced by International Olympics Community (IOC) President Thomas Bach while revealing the team to press.

In their formal concert outfits, with masks on to protect themselves from the stench of decay, two classical musicians from Tetovo played Bach's famous orchestral suite Air to protest pollution.

As a child studying these eternal masterpieces, Bach's music would intermingle with the singing voices of Muslim prayers from the neighboring Arab village of the northern Kibbutz in Israel where I grew up.