To celebrate the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Greece, the birthplace of event,the Embassy of Brazil is happy to announce that the Panathenaic Stadium will be illuminated in green and yellow, the Brazilian colors, on August 4th, the eve of the opening ceremony. The Panathenaic Stadium is the venue where the first contemporary Olympic Games were held. The special illumination will be fully sponsored by Olympian Green S.A.
Olympian Green S.A., a company founded in 1846, just finished a 3.000 square meters, state of the art, fully integrated, plant that guarantees that Olympian Green S.A. top quality extra virgin olive oil products will reliably reach and satisfy end consumers all over the globe. Within this scope Olympian Green has a special focus in Latin America and, more specifically, Brazil.
Mr. Fotis Mavroudis, Olympian Green General Manager, commented on the event as follows: “It is with great pride that we have participated in the Rio Olympic Games effort by contributing the lighting of the Panathenaic Stadium in the colors of the Brazilian flag. We hope that our contribution illustrates that Greeceas a whole and our company in particular feels close to the Brazilian effort for spectacular Rio Olympic Games and wishes that they are a memorable and great success”.