Olympic Baseball Makes a Hit in Greece
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The team that did near the worst in Olympic baseball drew the most fans while the team among the most feared were not there. Such was the Olympic baseball competition, where
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With a powerful throw, Mirela Manjani propelled her javelin to break a different sort of record yesterday, earning Greece its most Olympic medals in more than a century.
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Seventeen days ago, on a steamy August night, Greece welcomed the Olympics home with a 200-drum staccato beat that lodged deep in your gut.
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HERAKLIO, Greece -- It&#39;s almost as though their careers are intertwined, one just beginning, the other only a gold-medal match away from retirement.
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Encouraged by worldwide praises for its successful hosting of the Olympic Games, self-confident Greeks are expecting a big boom in foreign investment in the post-Olympic era.
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The team that did near the worst in  Olympic baseball drew the most fans while the team among the  most feared were not there.
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HOST nation Greece grabbed its first gold medal of the Athens Olympics this morning when Nikolaos Siranidis and Thomas Bimis won the men&#39;s three-metre synchronised diving after China&#39;s favourites suffered a no-dive.
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The athletes have packed up. Olympic banners are coming down. But another challenge for the city of Athens is just beginning. It&#39;s a realization that&#39;s just starting to hit the Olympic hosts
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ATHENS  The United Arab Emirates and India scored Olympic firsts on day four of the Athens Games on Tuesday and there was good news also for host Greece, which landed its second gold of the competition.
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Newspapers in Greece reflect a mixture of exhilaration that the Athens Olympics proved successful, and relief that they passed off without any major setback.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Capping its sports-hosting triumph, Greece ended the XXVIII Olympiad with a festive splash of ethnic folklore, music and dancing.
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A roaring crowd helped inspire Greece&#39;s top women&#39;s beach volleyball team to trounce China on Wednesday and reach the next round.
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Nobody heard the American players exhale when the buzzer sounded to end a 77-71 victory, because 12,000 delirious fans saluted Greece, the home team that had come close.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - Sharp-shooting Spain blew away   Greece 70-47 to capture an emotional first world basketball   championship gold medal on Sunday.
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Greece found a new athletics god to replace the disgraced Kostas Kederis and Ekaterini Thanou in their hearts when Fani Halkia won gold in the 400 metres hurdles in the Olympic Stadium last night.
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Athens -- It&#39;s a good thing the Olympics end today. It seems the American team has overstayed its welcome by a few days. For the most part, the Greeks have been outstanding hosts.
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Greece advanced to the semifinals of the World Basketball Championships, and a date with the United States, with a 73-56 wire-to-wire dispatch of France in the first game of yesterday's doubleheader.