Athens Games halfway home free
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Staggering traffic problems, nightmarish security concerns and incomplete construction of sports venues that would cause an embarrassment to the host country.
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The final cost of the Athens Olympics has soared to about â¬9bn (Â£6.2bn), at least â¬2.4bn more than estimated, the Greek government said yesterday.
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Disgraced Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou made a winning return to big time athletics with a victory in her women's 60m heat at the European Athletics Indoor Championships here Saturday.
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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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Greece are quick out of the blocks when it comes to making money out of their Olympic medal winners.
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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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Britain&#39;s Paralympians returned home to a warm welcome after arriving at Gatwick airport on Wednesday. Team GB finished second in the table, behind China, with 94 medals - 35 of which were gold.
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Greece beat favourites USA 101-95 at the World Basketball Championship semi-finals in Japan.
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Description: In Athens, Japan&#39;s Mizuki Nogushi wins the women&#39;s Olympic Marathon, the first raced from the historic site in 108 years.
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The race for the 2012 Summer Olympics entered its final phase yesterday, as candidate cities from New York to Moscow released the formal bids they hope will land them the Games.
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Athens - Olympic Games medal dreams were gunned down, rescued and put on hold in Athens after a series of protests. Nowhere was the sound and fury greatest than out on the athletics track and in the gymnastics arena.
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The 28th Olympic Games came to an end in Athens, Greece with an exuberant closing ceremony. There was drama up to the last gold medal with a spectator running onto the course of men&#39;s marathon with about 15 minutes to go.
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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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ATHENS, Greece - The place and the opponent don't really matter. This U.S...
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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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Olympics 2004 Athens &gt; Athens, Aug 25 : Kate Allen of Austria Wednesday pulled off an upset win in the women&#39;s triathlon at the Olympic Games, reports Xinhua.
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ATHENS - On a day on which both Greece and the Olympics celebrated themselves by returning the Games to their ancient home in Olympia, two popular Greek athletes withdrew from the track and field competition amid a scandal befitting that ...