For Greece, the Games Leave Pride, Relief and a Huge Bill
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More than 10,000 athletes from nearly 200 countries competed in the most expensive and most fortified international sporting event ever.
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In the same way that once-belittled Greece has shocked the world by putting on an efficient and successful Olympics, so did Fani Halkia emerge from the shadows Wednesday with a stunning triumph for the host nation.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The closing ceremony of the Athens Games is underway in front of a crowd of 75,000 at the Olympic Stadium. The arena, which has been the main venue for the sporting carnival for the past
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LIKE a rank outsider, Athens has surprised the pundits by hosting an Olympic Games that has run with the mathematical precision mastered by the ancient Greeks.
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Greece staged a giant party on Sunday to  celebrate bringing the Olympics back to their spiritual  homeland in triumphant style.
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Greece is a âsafe destinationâ, a âmodern European Countryâ that organised âtechnically excellentâ Olympic Games with a âhuman dimensionâ.
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The total cost of Athens Olympics was nearly 9.0 billion euros (11.5 billion US dollars), almost double the amount forecast a year before the Games, Greece&#39;s Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis said on Friday.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The 2004 Summer Games ended with a vibrant two-hour extravaganza at Athens&#39; Olympic Stadium on Sunday. Greece bid farewell to guests from 201 countries in a ceremony that started with fireworks and a dazzling light show.
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The bill arrived for the Athens Olympics yesterday -- about $11.6 billion, and it might climb higher. The tally announced by the government
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ATHENS, Aug. 19 -- Worried about the potential for a terrorist catastrophe, Greece is spending about $1.5 billion on security for the Olympic Games. The biggest threats so far? Foreign journalists and a Canadian guy dressed in a tutu.
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The Athens Olympics will cost a total of almost 10 billion euros ($12.1 billion), more than double the original target, pushing Greece&#39;s budget gap well above EU limits, finance ministry sources said on Wednesday.
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With world attention focussed upon Athens this month, Greece is certainly basking in the spotlight.
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Seventeen days ago, on a steamy August night, Greece welcomed the Olympics home with a 200-drum staccato beat that lodged deep in your gut.
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The Athens Olympics will cost a total of  almost 10 billion euros ($12.1 billion), more than double the  original target, pushing Greece's budget gap well above EU  limits, finance ministry sources said on Wednesday.
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ATHENS - After welcoming the Olympic Games back home for the first time in 108 years, Greece tonight bade them a joyous farewell at a colourful closing ceremony at Olympic Stadium.
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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 -- A brilliant idea, taking the shot put back to the birthplace of the Olympic Games, proving, if nothing else, that everything old really can become new again.