Empty Oly venues a problem in Greece
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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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Latest estimates of the costs of hosting the Athens Olympics put them at up to $10bn - a huge amount for a small country like Greece, once the poorest in the EU.
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OLYMPIA, GREECE - It was a day when the actors took a back seat to the scenery, when the question of who won and who took part was not as significant as where they competed.
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GLYFADA, Greece - The singing was so loud, Gal Fridman said, he could not hear the music. He made an attempt at his national anthem, but the volume of live voices drowned out the soundtrack.
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ROME -- Only six soccer stadiums in Italy meet security requirements, meaning that league games in other arenas will be played without fans following last week's death of a police officer during riots at a game in Sicily.
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ATHENS, Greece - If anyone deserved a party, it was the people of Athens.    The flame went out on the Olympics during a closing ceremony Sunday night that honored the birthplace of the games with an ebullient display of Greek pride and symbolism, a relief-filled celebration of the ancient and the new...
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By MATT MOORE    ATHENS, Greece  -- Amid the roar of the crowd, the silence of the phones can be deafening. As thousands of athletes, spectators, journalists, officials and more descend on the Greek capital ahead of the Aug...
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ATHENS, Greece &#151; For two weeks in Greece, they were mostly missing in action: Marion Jones and the U.S. boxing team.
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If there were any doubts that we're still living in the era of the stay-at-home economy, the rows of empty seats at the Athens Olympics should help erase them.
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The Greek government on Friday urged protestors planning demonstrations against the arrival here of United States Secretary of State Colin Powell not to mar the hitherto
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The opening of the Ara Pacis Museum should have been cause for celebration. That the building is a flop is therefore a major disappointment.
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Greece isn't the only country  seeing low turnout for the 2004 Summer Olympics -- on average,  about 8 percent fewer U.S. television viewers tuned in to  Friday's opening ceremonies on NBC than four years ago.
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KRESTENA, Greece  - The battle against raging forest fires that have killed 63 Greeks and made thousands homeless entered its fifth day as opposition parties accused the government of incompetence in handling the crisis.
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The amazing thing about those famously empty seats at Olympics: They might be the big letdown in the Games&#39; first week. Who knew?
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If there were any doubts that we're  still living in the era of the stay-at-home economy, the rows  of empty seats at the Athens Olympics should help erase them.
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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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Only six soccer stadiums in Italy meet security requirements, meaning that league games in other arenas will be played behind closed doors.Comment