Olympic drama, but no chorus
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ATHENS  Five days after the Olympics returned to the home that was so desperate to receive them, a peaceful and promising beginning has been marred by one ever-present image: empty seats.
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This gold medal comes with a broken heart. This victory - as dominant as the Olympic Games have seen in years from any sport, any team, any nation - comes with a searing sense of loss.
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The greatest race of the Olympics  produced the most unlikely winner.
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ATHENS - The Russians were angry. The South Koreans were angry. The Greeks were angry. Nobody paid for it more than Paul Hamm. For 10 solid minutes, the crowd booed and whistled, creating a deafening roar.
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ATHENS  A lot of words about Michael Phelps were processed before the swimmer ever got on a plane for Athens. And curiously, two of the most important were never among them.
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THE OLYMPICS may have returned to the land of their birth, but even as these games wind down, the stadiums in Athens remain eerily empty.
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The man behind the opening ceremony for the Athens Games is reluctant to call his work a success, despite worldwide acclaim for his evocative tableau of 3,000 years of Greek history and culture.
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Athens -- What a far cry this is from Sydney for Marion Jones. Comparatively speaking, these are the Olympics Lite, a few days of action and no hint of huge things.
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It took nearly 12 hours for everyone to be heard Monday as the Court of Arbitration for Sport considered whether American gymnast Paul Hamm should keep the gold medal he won in the all-around event at the Athens Olympics.
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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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ATHENS, Greece, There it was, the almost incomprehensible. Manu Ginobili and 11 Argentines you never heard of running out the clock on NBA stars in the Olympics.
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The weights of female athletes are almost never published, and the idea of weighing them is under debate.
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ATHENS: Seldom have sporting moments of inconceivable pain and delirious joy covered more emotional ground yet been so difficult to distinguish.
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The backdrop of America's bid for the 2016 Olympic Games might be the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sears Tower or the Los Angeles Coliseum &#151; or none of these at all.
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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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There was no flexing. No preening. No embarrassing bird-like displays with the US flag. Bernard Williams must have learned a thing or two at the Sydney Olympics, because he his American teammates were on their
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Don't count on seeing any major league stars in the Olympics while Bud Selig is baseball commissioner.