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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Thursday was the night every Greek had marked down in their diary weeks and months ago. It was the night Kostas Kenteris was supposed to successfully defend his 200m crown in front of his adoring public.
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We do not dare to believe that our two champions, Katerina Thanou and Kostas Kenteris, avoided the IOC&#39;s drug test because they were doped.
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ATHENS, Greece - This country has long been seen as a patriarchal society. But the critical role played by two women in the success of the Olympic Games shows how much that society is changing.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Things are clearly far from perfect for the US Olympic men&#39;s basketball team. But now, perfection isn&#39;t important. Victories are. Against anybody.
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ATHENS -- A disruptive Greek chorus of whistles, chanting, and catcalls could not derail a crowd-silencing American sweep in the men's 200-meter dash at the Olympic Games last night.
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ATHENS, Greece - The man behind the Athens Olympics' opening ceremony is reluctant to call his work a success, despite worldwide acclaim for his evocative tableau of 3,000 years of Greek history and culture.   "I hope this stays in the hearts and minds of people...
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ATHENS, Greece -- In a rented warehouse in Athens&#39; Alimos neighborhood, a group of Greek florists with blistered fingers are working to be a part of Olympic history.
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ATHENS, Greece -- There was room for one error -- maybe two -- in the Olympic women&#39;s gymnastics final, but not three.
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And so it has come to this for the United States&#39; men&#39;s basketball team: It is happy with a grind-it-out victory over Greece, a nation that certainly knows pita but not pick and rolls. What did we learn from Tuesday night&#39;s 77-71 victory over our hosts ...
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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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The doping scandal surrounding the Greek athletes, Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, and their controversial coach Christos Tsekos, intensified yesterday when it was reported that premises
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - With one gold medal already, he could have packed it in. But it wouldn&#39;t have been right, not after what his teammate accomplished Saturday night.
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The pessimism among Greeks before the Olympics has been replaced by fierce optimism and pride. So donât even think about criticizing the Games, especially if youâre Greek.
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ATHENS, Greece -- If international gymnastics is a brick house, the mortar holding it together is a conglomerate of finger-pointing, dubious judging, scandal, complaining and bald-faced weeping.
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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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Athens - The Athens Olympics have turned from party to tragedy for hosts Greece after doping scandals involving three of their top athletes.