A glimpse into the future

The Committee on Openers (COO) has announced that the 2025 Opener World Olympics (OWO) will be held on the campus of the School for Openers (SFO) in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Boo Radley, a major winner in the first OWO and a graduate of SFO, will lead the ribbon-cutting ceremonies. As usual, there will be five events: glass bottles, plastic bottles, medicine bottles, tin cans and paper containers. Each event will be divided into two parts, opening without aid and opening using appropriate devices. 

It is appropriate that the Opener Olympics are being held in Bloomfield, as the movement for easier opening of containers originated here at Duncaster, a Continuing Care Retirement Community. The difficulty senior citizens had in opening the typical array of containers available in 2015 caused them to look for an easier solution than calling their grandchildren to help them out. This led to the beginning of the Opener Olympics, as enterprising innovators saw an untapped market and began a series of competitions which resulted first in the opening of SFO and, then, the first Olympics in 2021.