The ceremony for the delivery of the victors’ wreaths for the Boston Marathon, presented to the Boston Marathon Association by the General Consulate of Greece in Boston and the Greek-American Council “Alpha Omega”, was held on Thursday evening at Massachusetts State House, ANA reports.
The Boston marathon, which is taking place on Monday, is considered one of the most important marathon races worldwide and stresses Boston’s common cultural bonds with Greece as the birthplace of the American Revolution, for which it is symbolically dubbed the “Athens of the USA”.
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