Macron to ask for a global truce during the Olympic Games
15 April 2024 13:14
French President Emmanuel Macron hopes that an “Olympic truce” will be reached during the Paris Olympics, meaning that wars in the world will be temporarily suspended. He told BFMTV about this, Komersant ukrainskyi 
reports.
“We want to work on an Olympic truce, and I think this is an opportunity to which I will try to involve many of our partners,” he said,
– Macron said.
He added that he would seek help from Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will visit Paris in a few weeks. Macron, in particular, recalled that his Chinese counterpart had “the same job” in 2022 on the occasion of the Winter Olympics.
Macron believes that the 2024 Olympic Games should be a “moment of diplomatic peace”.
In 2022, the Winter Olympics were held in China from 4 to 20 February. The media circulated information that Putin wanted to attack Ukraine a little earlier than 22 February, but it was at the request of the Chinese leader that he moved the start date of his “special operation” so as not to spoil the Chinese Games.
The Olympic Games
The Ancient Olympic Games were sports competitions held in ancient Greece from 776 BC to 393 AD. During this time, 293 competitions were held. Among other things, the Olympic Games symbolised the unity of the Greek city-states and were an important cultural phenomenon in ancient Greek society.
The Ancient Olympic Games were held in Olympia in the historical region of Elida in the north-west of the Peloponnese. During the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, any wars between the Greek states were suspended for two months and a sacred truce, the ekehiria, was established. During this time, it was forbidden to enter the territory of the whole of Elida with weapons.
The modern Olympic Games under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee were first held in 1896 in Athens.
The XXXIII Summer Olympic Games will be held from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in Paris. The International Olympic Committee has allowed Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete under neutral status. For them, the IOC has developed several additional criteria that establish that a particular Russian athlete does not support Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine. According to recent reports, there may be about 40 such athletes. Ukraine condemns this decision.
