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PM inaugurates exhibition featuring Spyros Louis 1896 Olympic silver cup

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Embassy of Greece in London - Embassy News
Tuesday, 28 August 2012

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Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Monday inaugurated an exhibition that features the silver cup awarded to Greek runner Spyros Louis when he won the first-ever Olympic marathon race at the 1896 Games in Athens. The cup will be displayed at the New Acropolis Museum for a year, starting on Aug. 28, after a decision by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, which purchased the heirloom at an auction recently from Louis' descendants.

'We shall overcome all obstacles', PM Samaras says at Spyros Louis cup exhibition inauguration Prime Minister Antonis Samaras inaugurated the exhibition of the silver cup of Spyros Louis at the Acropolis Museum on Monday evening. "Today Greece is participating in its entirety in a new marathon, a contest that puts to the test both the endurance and the will of the athlete and that is won with both heart and mind.

We shall win this marathon, we shall overcome all the obstacles and we shall say at the end we have won," Samaras said on underlining the cup's symbolism.
The event was attended, among others, by Education, Religion, Culture and Sport Minister Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Alternate Culture Minister Costas Tzavaras and the deputies Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Pyrros Dimas.

SOURCE: ATHENS NEWS AGENCY

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