Head of 2021 committee: Celebrations will be more significant than 2004 Olympics

In comments to Skai television channel, the head of the committee tasked with overseeing preparations to mark the bicentenary of Greece's 19-century revolt against Ottoman Turkey, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, said the celebrations would be more significant than those for the 2004 Olympics, for which she headed the organizing committee.

In an interview on Thursday night, Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, said the 2021 celebrations are aimed at "helping us see what happened" and "remember or learn for the first time abnout the facts of true bravery and self-sacrifice." 

She added that she did no envisage "pharaonic projects."

Questioned about the 2004 Athens Olympics, she said claims that they prompted the country's bankruptcy are "a mistake, a lie." "The Games succeeded, the committee's budget was 2 billion then and we left 135 million to prime minister Kostas...

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