Highlights from the Athens Olympic Games
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Description: NPR&#39;s Robert Siegel and Wall Street Journal sports writer Stefan Fatsis, reporting from Athens, talk about some of the highlights of this week&#39;s Olympic Games events.
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A selection of the week's best sporting photography from around the world.
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ATHENS - The spectacle and drama of the Olympics enthralled billions. Television paid handsomely to show it and sponsors spent fortunes to bathe in its reflected glory.
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ATHENS (CP) - With pride and relief, Athens bid farewell to its guests from 201 countries at the close of the 2004 Olympic Games on Sunday.
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As the Athens Olympic Games came to an end Sunday, International Olympic Committee President Jacque Rogge covered a wide range of topics in his closing news conference.
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Efharisto! A nervous world learned the Greek word for thank you and repeated it endlessly at an astonishingly successful Athens Olympics that quelled fears, surprised skeptics and greatly honored the birthplace of the games.
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The 2004 Athens Olympics concluded Sunday (29 August) night with a spectacular ceremony under moonlit skies. More than 10,000 athletes from a record 202 countries participating in the 28th Olympiad joined
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HOST nation Greece grabbed its first gold medal of the Athens Olympics this morning when Nikolaos Siranidis and Thomas Bimis won the men&#39;s three-metre synchronised diving after China&#39;s favourites suffered a no-dive.
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With spectacular performances on his final two events, American Paul Hamm pulled out one of the biggest comebacks in Olympic gymnastic history.
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ATHENS: Fireworks lit up the sky in Athens Friday as the 12th Paralympic Games officially got under way to a chorus of drums and a sea of dancers.
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Athens - Olympic Games medal dreams were gunned down, rescued and put on hold in Athens after a series of protests. Nowhere was the sound and fury greatest than out on the athletics track and in the gymnastics arena.
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Â¶The very pleasant Games most people experienced, superimposed on one of the world&#39;s historic cities. Â¶The very expensive Games that Greeks will have to underwrite for decades.
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Photos of the best of the action in Athens on day five of the Olympic Games.
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A total of 21 gold medals will be awarded on Wednesday at the Athens Olympics. Day five medals already awarded include archery, boating and shooting events, as well as judo, cycling, and weightlifting.
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Plentiful buses, helpful volunteers, and efficient security have added up to &#39;positive surprises&#39; for the host city. There are many measures by which to judge the success of an Olympic Games: records broken, medals won, dreams fulfilled or dashed.
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The 2004 Olympic games in Athens, Greece, have been attracting a growing worldwide audience since they began August 13. Particularly attentive have been Greek-Americans.
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WE talk about Olympic moments: the torch, the record-setting performances. But some of the great moments are unrecorded ones, the inspiration shared between the athletes themselves.