Greece Goes Crazy Over 'Immortal' Walker
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Greece, shamed and angered by Olympic doping scandals, went wild with delight Monday when Athanasia Tsoumeleka won the women's 20 km walk to give the Olympic hosts their first athletics gold medal.
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Greece was rocked by the threat of being  stripped of an Athens Games medal and the host nation's team  manager offered to quit Friday, as doping overshadowed Michael  Phelps' drive to be Olympic swimming's top medal winner.
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LUKE. His name is tattooed forever on her right ankle. His memory, just as permanently, in her heart. Loretta Harrop ran the race of her life in Athens yesterday, the inspiration of her late
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Someday, a runner with a prosthetic leg may challenge to run in the Olympics. In the meantime, there should be a way to infuse Oscar Pistoriusâs spirit into all of us, within Olympic rules, of course.
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Greek authorities will launch an ambitious effort next month to replant the blackened wasteland left behind by the summer's deadly wildfires around the birthplace of the ancient Olympics.
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Remains of a mastodon - a mammoth-like animal - are found in northern Greece, including gigantic tusks.
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News that Greece&#39;s top two sprinters have withdrawn from the Athens Olympics over missed dope tests has swept through the crowd gathered at the home of the ancient Games to watch the shot put.
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Inside the Athens Cafe in Astoria, Queens &#151; the neighborhood at the heart of New York City's Greek-American community &#151; Costas Maurikis beamed as the gold-glowing Acropolis appeared on television.
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Fani Halkia drove the crowd at the  Olympic stadium into a frenzy Wednesday when she strode  imperiously to Greece's second athletics gold of the Games in  the women's 400 meters hurdles final.
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Filippos Sirigos, a key witness in the investigation into Olympic champion Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou. what local media saw as the worst intimidation case against Greek journalists for years.
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ATHENS -- Makis Yerassimakis, a Greek Gypsy who has spent a lifetime on society's margins, thought he could join the rest of Greece and cash in on the Olympics. So last Friday, he took about $600 worth of Greek flag trinkets to sell outside the opening ceremony.
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Greece, an ancient nation, searched its soul over a new doping scandal on Saturday while Michael Phelps, a fresh-faced American teenager, prepared to enter the Olympic record books without having to swim a stroke.
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First success at footballâs Euro 2004, then the centre of planetary attention with the Olympic games, and now Greece is bidding to win a medal for its renascent fashion industry.
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A battle is raging in Greece over whether entrepreneurs can fence off  sections of the shoreline and charge sun-worshippers an entrance fee
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Vouliagmeni, Greece - Watch Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel, think Hermann Maier. Awful crash, unlikely fightback, gold within days. Instant Olympic lore.
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Voters fed up with Greece's main parties and shocked by devastating forest fires may decide whether a gamble by Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis pays off in Sunday's parliamentary election.
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Otto Rehhagel, the German who led Greece to an upset win at Euro 2004, is amazed how many adoring Greeks there are in every corner of the world and how hard it is to pay for anything when he meets the grateful fans.