Greece's Olympic bill doubles
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Hosting the 2004 Olympics cost Greece 9bn euros, twice the original estimate, the country's finance minister says.
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The Athens Olympics will cost a total of almost 10 billion euros ($12.1 billion), more than double the original target, pushing Greece&#39;s budget gap well above EU limits, finance ministry sources said on Wednesday.
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D'oh The government failed to account for the costs of IT when putting together its budget for the 2012 Olympic Games, according to the bean counter watchdogs of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).â¦
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The total cost of the Athens Olympics may exceed $14.6 billion, according to Greece's 2005 budget submitted to parliament Thursday.
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Friday's start of the Paralympics forces Greece to improve access for the disabled.
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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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LIKE a rank outsider, Athens has surprised the pundits by hosting an Olympic Games that has run with the mathematical precision mastered by the ancient Greeks.
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb.
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By Zeus, Greece did it! With the Olympic flame now snuffed out after burning brightly for two weeks, the 28th Summer Games should be remembered for those amazing Greeks who pulled together at the last minute
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Greece hosts its second major sporting spectacle of the summer when the 12th Paralympics start on Friday.
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By MATT MOORE    ATHENS, Greece  -- Amid the roar of the crowd, the silence of the phones can be deafening. As thousands of athletes, spectators, journalists, officials and more descend on the Greek capital ahead of the Aug...
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THE Athens Summer Olympic Games cost host country Greece nearly 9 billion euros ($15.23 billion), Greek Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis said today, citing definitive figures.
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ATHENS -- The place was ready for a party. Prohibitive underdog Greece had its fans waving the blue-and-white flag and chanting &quot;Hellas&quot; at every opportunity when they weren't booing the United States.
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Their success at the Games could be a catalyst for change in Greece.
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ATHENS, Greece If you followed the Summer Olympics closely, you&#39;ll remember that Greece&#39;s top two sprinters were involved in a doping scandal that embarrassed the host country.
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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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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.