Halkia sends Greece wild
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Greece's Fani Halkia takes gold in the women's 400m hurdles to send the Athens crowd wild.
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Greece&#39;s Fani Halkia captured the women&#39;s 400m hurdles gold medal before a boisterous home crowd at the Olympic Games in Athens on August 25.
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In the same way that once-belittled Greece has shocked the world by putting on an efficient and successful Olympics, so did Fani Halkia emerge from the shadows Wednesday with a stunning triumph for the host nation.
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Fani Halkia came from nowhere last night to become the third female gold medalist in the history of Greece, capturing the 400-meter hurdles in 52.
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Greece's Fani Halkia thrills the Athens crowd with victory in the 400m hurdles.
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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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The women's basketball team advances to the semifinals with a 102-72 win over Greece, which had heart, the home court and little else.
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Athens celebrates as Greece secure a surprise win in the men's synchronised diving.
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Fani Halkia's victory in the Olympics  women's 400 meters hurdles was extraordinary but drug-related  questions about the Greek's performance are unfair, Australian  coach Phil King said Thursday.
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ZACHARO, Greece  - Forest fires raging in Greece have killed 41 people in two days and more were feared dead with some villages still trapped by flames on Saturday in what the government called a national tragedy.
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Drugs cast another shadow over the  Olympics Thursday with Ukrainian women rowers losing their  bronze medal and another weightlifter being barred. After  showing astonishing improvement over the last year to land the  400 meters hurdling crown, Greece's Fania Halkia complained  about the media's obsession with drugs -- and defended two of  her disgraced compatriots.
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Readers in Greece have sent in photos of forest across the country.
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A 77-year-old mother of a firefighter saved her home by dousing it with buckets of water. A man battled flames threatening his hotel with wet towels. With any and all means, villagers and volunteers fought the flames that ravaged southern Greece for a week and claimed 64 lives.
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Fani Halkia&#39;s victory in the Olympics women&#39;s 400 meters hurdles was extraordinary but drug-related questions about the Greek&#39;s performance are unfair, Australian coach Phil King said Thursday.
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To the roar of an adoring home crowd, Fani Halkia completed her unexpected romp through the Olympics on Wednesday with a victory in the women&#39;s 400-meter hurdles.
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AUSTRALIA&#39;S Jana Pittman finished fifth in the women&#39;s 400m hurdles at the Athens Olympics overnight behind home-town hero Fani Halkia of Greece.
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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.