Rogge calls Athens `unforgettable, dream games&#39;
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Four years ago, the IOC warned Athens was in danger of losing the Olympics because of severe delays. On Sunday night, the verdict was vastly different.
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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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Zeus and the other gods of ancient Greece smiled on the Athens Olympic Games, whose spectacular success surprised the world, the head of the organizing committee said Monday.
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The five cities bidding to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games should heed the advice of Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), when he meets with the candidate cities Friday morning.
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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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ATHENS : As the Athens Paralympics drew to a close 1,001 moments, each more poignant and powerful than the last, rise to the surface in the search for the defining image of these unforgettable Games.
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Morocco&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj and Britain&#39;s Kelly Holmes gave the Athens Games two of its greatest moments yesterday by surging to victory on the track to claim historic Olympic doubles.
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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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During a nap, hours before his 5,000-meter final, Morocco&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj had a grand dream. He wanted to make history and be like legendary countryman and distance runner Said Aouita.
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Olympic supremo Jacques Rogge Sunday  offered gold medals all round to Athens for organizing a superb  Olympics after years of doom and gloom leading up to the  opening.
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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 -- The coach of the United States softball team had a dream the other night. As Mike Candrea explained yesterday, it has been hard enough sleeping for the last month, let alone dreaming. The dream had nothing to do with these Olympics -- and everything to do with these Olympics.
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&quot;It&#39;s sad,&quot; the British visitor to Athens said, shaking her head. &quot;It&#39;s sad that nobody is here, buying tickets to the Olympics. People should be out there telling people that Athens is great. It&#39;s a great experience.&quot; ...
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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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IOC president Jacques Rogge believes 2004 marked a breakthrough in the fight to rid sport of drug cheats despite the doping scandals that blighted the Athens Olympics.
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TURIN, Italy  - Having weathered police raids,  cash problems and political intrigue, organizers of the 2006  Turin Winter Olympics are on track to deliver an "excellent"  Games, IOC chief Jacques Rogge said on Friday.
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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.