Olympic Wrap: Greece Hails New Diva in Halkia
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Greece hailed a new sporting diva on  Wednesday when Fani Halkia surged from relative obscurity a few  days ago to be crowned the women's 400 meters hurdles Olympic  champion.
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Fani Halkia hurtled from virtual  obscurity to become Olympic women's 400 meters hurdles champion  on Wednesday, giving Greece a new sports diva to hail but  sparking a barrage of questions over her rise to prominence.
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With an outpouring of joy, pride and some relief, Athens marked the completion of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games with a closing ceremony full of spectacle, fireworks and music.
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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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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympia, home of the Olympics for more than 12 centuries, hosted a track and field event for the first time in 1,611 years when the shot-putters of the Athens Games arrived at Greece&#39;s most sacred sporting site.
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Hungary's Zsuzsanna Voros won the gold  medal in the women's modern pentathlon in Athens Friday to add  the Olympic title to her three world championships.
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ATHENS -- No Greek has pushed harder, or stands to win more, from these Olympic Games than the woman who organized them. And when the Olympic flame goes out in the Olympic Stadium tonight, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki will turn her formidable energy and organizational might to closing the books on the $9 billion-plus Games -- and perhaps, to the goal many ...
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Russia&#39;s Irina Korzhanenko became the first woman to win a gold medal at the ancient site that birthed the Olympics, recording the three longest throws of the shot put competition.
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Fani Halkia hurtled from virtual obscurity to become Olympic women&#39;s 400 meters hurdles champion on Wednesday, giving Greece a new sports diva to hail but sparking a barrage of questions over her rise to prominence.
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb.
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ATHENS, Greece - 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.    Fireworks and spectacular lighting kicked off the closing ceremony Sunday night, a two-hour extravaganza of folk dancing and music in the Olympic tradition that summed up the glee and relief the games brought to Greece...
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ATHENS: Fani Halkia drove the crowd at the Olympic stadium into a frenzy on Wednesday when she strode imperiously to Greeceâs second athletics gold of the Games in the womenâs 400 metres hurdles final.
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Athanasia Tsoumeleka of Greece wins the women's 20km walk.
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Greece, shamed and angered by Olympic doping scandals, went wild with delight Monday when Athanasia Tsoumeleka won the women's 20 km walk to give the Olympic hosts their first athletics gold medal.
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Australian Jana Pittman finished fifth as Greece&#39;s Fani Halkia won the much-anticipated women&#39;s 400 metres Olympic final in Athens this morning.
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THE world sighed with relief when Greeks kept their promise to deliver some of the world&#39;s finest sport venues in time for the Athens Olympics.
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ATHENS, Greece - Little things meant a lot in Athens: a tear from Mia Hamm's eye, or a smile across Jennie Finch's mouth, was as good as gold. A pair of abandoned wrestling shoes, size 13, signaled goodbye for Rulon Gardner...