The Olympic Truce is a tradition originating from ancient Greece that dates back to 776 BC. A "truce" (from Ancient Greek ἐκεχειρία (ékécheiria) 'laying...

Olympian Zeus during his reign. During the celebration of the games, the Olympic truce (ekecheiría) was announced so that athletes and religious pilgrims could...

invasion of Ukraine, the IOC suspended the Olympic Committees of Russia and Belarus for violating the Olympic Truce. Russian and Belarusian athletes instead...

The Olympic Mass or Holy Mass for the Opening of the Olympic Truce is a tradition since 1896 in connection with the Olympic Games, during which the Olympic...

spectated at the Games, which were the first to have the Olympic Truce in effect. The Olympics were followed by the 1994 Winter Paralympics from 10 to...

the nominal Olympic Truce in place, the wars in Ukraine and Palestine set a more conflicted political background to the 2024 Summer Olympics. Part of the...

hostilities was known as the Olympic peace or truce. This idea is a modern myth because the Greeks never suspended their wars. The truce did allow those religious...

The Peace and Truce of God (Latin: Pax et treuga Dei) was a movement in the Middle Ages led by the Catholic Church and was one of the most influential...

walk from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro to raise awareness of the Olympic Truce. He returned to government as a Minister of State in the Department...

Games were held in Norway, after the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, and the first time the Olympic Truce was observed. As a result, after the dissolution...

truce') was the spirit and personification of truce, armistice, and cessation of hostilities. The term is also used to refer to the Olympic truce. Gardner...

failing to comply with the World Anti-Doping Code, overlapping with the Olympic Truce ban. WADA announced that the ban would not be lifted until "the non-conformities...

A ceasefire (also known as a truce or armistice), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a stoppage of a war in which each side agrees...

the Eleans managed the games, there was sometimes bias. The famous Olympic truce only mandated safe passage for visitors and did not stop all wars in...

Global Truce 2012, Razorlight and Eliza Doolittle headlined. On 21 June 2012 a Peace One Day concert at Derry, in the spirit of the Olympic Truce marked...

a Resolution to further solidify IOC–UN cooperation by reviving the Olympic Truce. The IOC received approval in November 2015 to construct a new headquarters...

at the UN before member states pass Olympic Truce for Paris Games". The Washington Post. 21 November 2023. "Olympic committee calls Russia's 'Friendship...

above the Seine, an ancient symbol of peace between nations during the Olympic truce. Once the mechanical horse completes its course on the Seine, the horsewoman...

World Affairs. 176 (2): 56–63. JSTOR 43554781. "The end of Russia's Olympic truce on dissent: Ukraine's uprising fans Putin's fears of losing control...

directed a pair of short documentaries, Flame of Peace (2002), about the Olympic Truce, and Unmasking Mavis (2002), about LGBTQ subcultures in South Africa...

Russia's annexation of Crimea and the violation of the Olympic Truce. "2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: Australia joins US diplomatic boycott". BBC News. 2021-12-08...

International Olympic Committee (IOC) condemned Russia's "breach of the Olympic Truce adopted by the UN General Assembly". The IOC called on individual federations...

While the Olympic Mass has inaugurated the Olympic truce since 1896 to include the religious dimension of the Olympic Games, the Olympic opening ceremony...

units. Olympic truces are evidence of this effect. If one city-state were to invade or go to war with another city-state during an Olympic truce, the aggressor...

invasion of Ukraine; the International Olympic Committee (IOC) condemned Russia for violating the Olympic Truce, and the IPC ultimately banned Russian...

because of this requirement. It was also the time of the Olympic Games, and therefore the Olympic truce, and thus it would have been doubly sacrilegious for...

Quoting a breach of the Olympic Truce by the Russian government in which Belarus was complicit, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended...

sustainable development. The Declaration also urges observance of the Olympic truce individually and collectively. Values and Principles Freedom Equality...

of a new prime minister until after the 2024 Summer Olympics, announcing that an "Olympic truce" should be respected, which was already a singular choice...

Global Truce 2012, Razorlight and Eliza Doolittle headlined. On 21 June 2012 a Peace One Day concert at Derry, in the spirit of the Olympic Truce marked...