Athletics: Greek celebration is not meant to be
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ATHENS As the sprinters walked out for the final of the men&#39;s 200 meters, the crowd in the packed Olympic Stadium began to boo.
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Despite sluggish ticket sales and a scandal involving their star athletes, members of Winnipeg&#39;s Greek community are still thrilled Greece is hosting this year&#39;s Olympic Games. &quot;There&#39;s a lot of excitement,&quot; said Chris Iacovidis, president of the Greek ...
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Success at the Games could boost the popularity of a sport unfamiliar to Greeks.
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Athens -- The venues didn&#39;t fall down. The terrorists were kept at bay. The US Olympians waved the flag anyway, and nobody got hurt.
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Paul Hamm didn&#39;t fling his Olympic gold medal off the top of the Empire State Building on Thursday, nor did he drop it in the middle of rush-hour traffic in Times Square just for the fun of it.
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ATHENS, Greece If you followed the Summer Olympics closely, you&#39;ll remember that Greece&#39;s top two sprinters were involved in a doping scandal that embarrassed the host country.
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Athens - The Athens Olympics have turned from party to tragedy for hosts Greece after doping scandals involving three of their top athletes.
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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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The mens&#39; 100-meter final isn&#39;t until tonight, but it didn&#39;t look as if anybody told the guys who were running in last night&#39;s preliminaries.
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I thought the commotion before the race was disgraceful. Obviously, those in the stadium didn&#39;t represent the whole of Greece, but it looked bad for the organisers of a good Games thus far.
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The man behind the opening ceremony for the Athens Games is reluctant to call his work a success, despite worldwide acclaim for his evocative tableau of 3,000 years of Greek history and culture.
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Usually at sporting events, people know who wins and who loses or who comes in first, second, third and so forth by the score. In fact, there is no other way to run athletic competitions; most would agree
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Those scoffing at Greeceâs ability to put on a secure Games have so far been biting their tongue. Helicopters and a zeppelin patrol the skies and security around the stadiums has been tight.
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Wednesday night in the Olympic Stadium, a 25-year-old Greek woman named Fani Halkia won the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles as more than 60,000 fans, many of them flag-waving countrymen, went wild.
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ATHENS: Seldom have sporting moments of inconceivable pain and delirious joy covered more emotional ground yet been so difficult to distinguish.
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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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Sport finally took center stage at the  Olympics on Thursday after almost a week of headlines dominated  by a drug-testing drama that tarnished Greece's image.