Rehhagel Gets Tough With Greece
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Greece coach Otto Rehhagel has attempted to shake the team out of their Euro2004 championship hangover by insisting that they donât deserve a place in World Cup 2006 if they canât defeat lowly Kazakhstan at home.
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ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 28 â The fires that tore omnivorously through scores of villages and olive groves here may now also be changing Greeceâs political landscape: . The government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, facing national elections next month, came under increasing criticism today, not only over its handling of the fires but also over whether it stoked Greeksâ fears about who might be to blame.
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ATHENS, GREECE - The crowd danced and sang and chanted &quot;Hellas, Hellas, Hellas&quot; and a taunting refrain of &quot;Puerto Rico&quot; loud enough to stir the ancients or heal Lamar Odom&#39;s pained and poisoned stomach.
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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.
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ATHENS, Aug 30 (IPS) - Greece is set to pay an enormous cost after a week  of unstoppable inferno, with fires still burning out of control.
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Their success at the Games could be a catalyst for change in Greece.
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Greece's conservatives on Monday faced the tough task of tackling reforms needed to catch up with euro zone countries after winning a second mandate with only a narrow majority in Sunday's election.
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Greece was rocked by the threat of being  stripped of an Athens Games medal and the host nation's team  manager offered to quit Friday, as doping overshadowed Michael  Phelps' drive to be Olympic swimming's top medal winner.
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"We need to go up the ladder again after improving against Greece."We need to become a great team.
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Greece advanced to the semifinals of the World Basketball Championships, and a date with the United States, with a 73-56 wire-to-wire dispatch of France in the first game of yesterday's doubleheader.
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KLAGENFURT, Austria  - As the fight to qualify for next year's European Championship resumes this weekend, the only two countries to have already made sure of their starting places face their own battles.
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With world attention focussed upon Athens this month, Greece is certainly basking in the spotlight.
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Greece, whose European Championship triumph stunned football only two months ago, suffered a rapid fall from grace when they were beaten by Albania in their opening qualifier for the 2006 World Cup.
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Even though he has fled the perceived hostile atmosphere of Athens and the Olympic village for more friendly terrain in the United States, there is still time for Paul Hamm to do what&#39;s right.
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Professional soccer teams, their national and international governing bodies and anti-racism groups have been grappling with a number of incidents around Europe over the last month.
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A US decision to call Macedonia, &quot;Macedonia,&quot; has raised the ire of Greece, which is threatening to keep the country out of the European Union.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- Looking for answers to an offense that seemed out of synch, the United States finally found them.