Olympics: Cut It Out, Give It Back, Cool the Hype
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Calls of "cut it out" and "give it back"  competed with a hot United States-vs.-China medals race  Thursday as the 28th Olympiad in Athens went into its final  days with some 80 medals still to be won.
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In many Olympics competitions winners and losers are determined by less than a fraction of a point and even the slightest error in scoring can set back an athlete from the gold to the bronze.
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Though it's been a little shaky at times, Athens  seems ready for the Olympics
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ATHENS -- No Greek has pushed harder, or stands to win more, from these Olympic Games than the woman who organized them. And when the Olympic flame goes out in the Olympic Stadium tonight, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki will turn her formidable energy and organizational might to closing the books on the $9 billion-plus Games -- and perhaps, to the goal many ...
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By Ingrid Stegemoeller, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep.
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BEIJING - Days after the euphoria of its record gold medal haul in Athens, China announced a sobering plan to delay construction of some venues for the 2008 Olympics and confirmed plans to cut down the extravagant features of two main stadiums here.
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How You Play the Game? At the Olympics, Some Think It Is Whether You Win or Lose. By David Marash. ATHENS, Aug. 28, 2004 - There was literally a field house full of great performances as the world&#39;s greatest
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The 2004 Olympics haven&#39;t even ended yet, but German sports officials and policy-makers are already starting to moan and groan about the German teamâs performance in Greece and are demanding structural changes in the way Olympic hopefuls should be
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The Olympic Games are a week old! Not bad for an event first recorded in 776 BC. The Games have so far gone much better than anyone really expected.
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The expense of securing the Olympic Games has become so daunting for host cities and nations that it is now time for Olympic officials to consider international cost-sharing
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From the Latin, the Olympic motto is: &quot;Faster. Higher. Stronger.&quot; It says nothing about &quot;Beauty. Harmony. Emotion.&quot; Yet those values, promoted by the International Gymnastics Federation, help explain the scandal
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Calls of "cut it out" and "give it back"  competed with a hot United States-vs.-China medals race  Thursday as the 28th Olympiad in Athens went into its final  days with over 70 medals still to be won.
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Their success at the Games could be a catalyst for change in Greece.
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A rivalry in the Olympic pool that's straight out of Homeric central casting .
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ATHENS, Aug 10 (IPS) - -The scorching sun of Athens would suggest this   might be more the place to think global warming than Salt Lake  City where  the winter Olympics of 2002 were held. It has turned  out to be just the  other way round.
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ATHENS  By the measure of the medal table, the approaching conclusion of the Olympics&#39; first week seems to promise some sense of normalcy, with America again shadowing the top of the ...
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ATHENS, Greece - Bad judging has become a tradition at the Olympics, almost its own event really. From the robbery of Munich, where officials stole a basketball gold from the United States and gave it to Russia