ANCIENT OLYMPIA /Greece/, November 26. /TASS/. The Olympic Flame for the 2026 Winter Games in Italy was lit on Wednesday during the Lighting Ceremony at the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Olympia in Greece, a TASS correspondent reported.
The ceremony was attended by President of Greece Konstantinos Tasoulas, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry, IOC Honorary President Thomas Bach, President of the Hellenic Olympic Committee Isidoros Kouvelos, President of the Milano Cortina Organizing Committee Giovanni Malago, IOC Member Spyros Capralos, Deputy Minister of Sports Giannis Vroutsis, Mayor of Ancient Olympia Aristidis Panayiotopoulos and other officials.
"We are extremely happy that today’s ceremony reminds us what the Games stand for," IOC President Coventry said at the ceremony. "They are about bringing people together in peaceful competition, in friendship and in respect."
"As we light the Olympic flame for Milano Cortina, we will carry this light from the past to the present and into the future. And it’s a shared future that we all want to see. This is why we firmly believe in the Olympic Truce. In laying down our differences and wanting to hope for a brighter future," she continued.
