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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-11-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Olympic truce - Development and sport2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051130.12.3-098"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-11-30-Speech-3-0992
lpv:speaker	lp:Georgios Karatzaferis2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-21--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos - G. Karatzaferis (2005-11-24--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3
lpv:translated text	". Madam President, a major European intellectual of the last century said that the world had inherited three things from Greece: the Olympic Games, philosophical thought from Socrates, Plato and Aristotle and theatre from Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes and all those great Greeks. I consider the most important of these to be the Olympic Games. Greece started them in 776 B.C., when we all know what the framework of organised life was in Europe. Greece therefore imposed the truce at that time. It said, 'There will be no Olympic Games while there is war'. In the sixth century, when Alexander I, King of Macedonia, came to compete in person at ancient Olympia, two things were asked of him: first, the judges wanted to establish that he was Greek, which they did immediately, and secondly, they called on him to stop certain skirmishes in the north of his country, which term was respected. The Olympic Games stopped in 393 for purely political reasons which we all know. The Olympic Games started in 1896 and we saw war stop. They were not held in 1940 or in 1944, due to the war with the Nazis. In 1972, we had the tragic events in Munich. The other two Olympic Games, in Los Angeles and Moscow, were sullied because the teams of the two big countries did not take part for political reasons. We must therefore protect the Olympic Truce. It is a proposal which comes from the depths of time. Let us therefore call on the IOC for certain Olympic sports to be held in the country of origin of the Olympic Games, in ancient Olympia; for the marathon to be held there, on the classic route run for the first time by Philippides. Only then will we give meaning again to the Olympic Games. The Olympic Truce must come today into our lives, we must convince the big not to wage war on the small."@en1

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