Athletics starts in Athens
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Latest updates as Denise Lewis prepares her bid for heptathlon gold.
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Great Britain's athletes and swimmers get their first taste of the action on day two in Athens.
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The Greek press is in raptures following the opening ceremony for the Athens Olympics.
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When I compare the current attack of the Olympics with the original Games in ancient Greece, a theme emerges. Back then, athletes were occasionally disemboweled and those who stepped over the line were flogged.
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Greece, an ancient nation, searched its  soul over a new doping scandal on Saturday while Michael  Phelps, a fresh-faced American teenager, prepared to enter the  Olympic record books without having to swim a stroke. The  Olympics started its eighth day with 32 gold medals up for  grabs in what has been dubbed ~Super Saturday.~
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The first of 18 gold medals to be awarded Wednesday, on the 12th day of the summer Olympics in Athens goes to Kate Allen of Austria.
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Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou, center, arrives in court to appear before a public prosecutor in Athens, on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2004.
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ATHENS  As the delay-plagued build-up to the Olympics illustrated, the Greeks aren&#39;t exactly known for organization and punctuality. But now that stadiums, new metro lines, beautified city squares and a vast ...
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympia, home of the Olympics for more than 12 centuries, will host competition for the first time in 1,611 years when the shot put competition of the Athens Games is contested at Greece&#39;s most sacred sporting site.
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Athanasia Tsoumeleka won Greece's first  athletics gold of the Olympic Games Monday with an upset  victory in the women's 20km walk.
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In 1997, in Athens, he won his first gold medal at the World Championships. In 1999, in the 100 meters, the sprinter broke the world record here.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympic medalists Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou quit the Athens Games, overshadowing the start of track and field events on the fifth day of competition. Venus Williams and Andy Roddick were eliminated from the tennis.
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ATHENS  The United Arab Emirates and India scored Olympic firsts on day four of the Athens Games on Tuesday and there was good news also for host Greece, which landed its second gold of the competition.
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Hundreds of thousands of Olympic  athletes and visitors began what Greek media termed the "Great  Escape" from Athens on Monday, an exodus that has run as  smoothly as the Games themselves.
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The latest snippets from our men in Athens as the Games get under way.
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Starting from this morning, the day after the closing ceremonies of the Athens Olympics, the countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics begins.
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All the action from the finale to the Athens Olympics.