Paralympics Open in Athens
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Nearly 4,000 disabled athletes are in Athens, Greece, for Friday night&#39;s opening ceremony of the largest Paralympics in the games&#39; 44-year history.
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Greece hosts its second major sporting spectacle of the summer when the the 12th Paralympics start on Friday.
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This year&#39;s opening ceremony to the Olympic Games in Athens was impressive for the mixture of allusions to antiquity and modern innovation.
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Though it's been a little shaky at times, Athens  seems ready for the Olympics
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ATHENS, Greece  The slogan for these Olympics is, &quot;Welcome Home.&quot; But the Games really go home today, when the men&#39;s and women&#39;s shot put are held in the excavated stadium of ancient Olympia, which started all this madness in 776 BC ...
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The Athens 2004 Paralympic Games began with an opening ceremony that was greeted with the warm applause of thousands of spectators who filled the Olympic Stadium as they did for the opening of the Olympic Games last month.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Wherever they can, the Greeks seek to incorporate some customs and traditions of the original Olympics.
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The coral-and-sea-colored Athens 2004 banners had been raised. The ancient stadium that hosts the Olympic shot put competition today had been fitted with a security camera and hardwood stands for visiting dignitaries. The remodeled and air-conditioned archeological museum that featured the god-size sculpture of Hermes of Praxiteles had opened. Outdoor booths had been stocked with sharp cheese, ...
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Britain&#39;s Paralympians returned home to a warm welcome after arriving at Gatwick airport on Wednesday. Team GB finished second in the table, behind China, with 94 medals - 35 of which were gold.
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ATHENS, 18 September - At the Opening Ceremony of the 12th Paralympic Games, Phil CRAVEN, MBE, congratulated Athens and all its citizens that have contributed to getting the city ready for the Paralympic Games.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - How to make a seamless transition from the Olympics to the Paralympics is one of the lessons a five-member team from the Vancouver 2010 Organizing Committee is learning during a visit to the Athens Paralympic Games, said VANOC CEO John
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ZACHARO, Greece  - Fire brigades, battling forest blazes across Greece, on Sunday began evacuating villages near ancient Olympia, site of the first Olympic games.
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The Olympic Stadium was turned into a lake for the opening ceremony of the Games of the 28th Olympiad. On Friday night they had only gone and planted a ruddy great olive tree in the middle of the arena for the opening extravaganza of the Paralympic Games.
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Organisers of the Beijing Olympics open the spectacular National Aquatics Centre.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The 2004 Athens Paralympics didn&#39;t finish with a dazzling fireworks display like its Olympic predecessor, but with a dignified and sometimes solemn Closing Ceremony.
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Success at the Games could boost the popularity of a sport unfamiliar to Greeks.
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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.