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4 Feb 2014, 10:26

Greek president believes in "splendid" Games in Sochi

for Greeks, the Olympics were not merely a sport event, Karolos Papoulias said

ATHENS, February 04. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia would stage splendid Olympics in the best possible way, Greek President Karolos Papoulias said in an exclusive interview with Itar-Tass ahead of his February 6 trip to the opening of the Winter Games in Sochi.

Papoulias believes the Games’ importance is obvious. “It is an encounter of the world’s youth in the spirit of Olympic ideals which Russia undertook to organize and is doing in the best possible way,” he said.