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Why the upcoming Olympics matter in a world drifting toward conflict

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As the world gathers in the Italian Alps for sport’s greatest winter celebration, we are once again challenged - not only to respect the Olympic Truce - but what kind of civilisation we choose to uphold, George Papandreou writes in an opinion article for Euronews.

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The Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Games are sending a message of peace. Italian President Sergio Mattarella called for the Olympic Truce to be respected at the opening of the 145th session of the International Olympic Committee at the La Scala opera house in Milan on Monday evening. "Violence, no matter who perpetrates it, breeds new violence," Mattarella warned.

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The president of the Republic in Milan opens the session of the Cio. In the morning the visit to the wounded of Crans to the Niguarda

·Italy
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The Games message of peace, a light to dissipate the darkness of conflicts and incommunicability. We ask - with stubborn determination - for the Olympic truce to come...

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Sport is a peaceful meeting, a testimony of brotherhood in conditions of noble competition, stated the Italian President of the Republic.

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IOC President Kirsty Coventry referred four days before the Olympic Games in Italy to intermediate hurdles in preparation. "It was a long way – sometimes a bit bumpy, like any Olympic route – but it is really wonderful to be here in Italy," said Coventry, who has been in office since June of the previous year, on Monday at the opening of the IOC session in Scala in Milan, in the presence of Italian President Sergio Mattarella. Coventry said that…

·Vienna, Austria
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Euronews broke the news in France on Monday, February 2, 2026.
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