Games Rock Athens, Thousands Party Nightly
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While the world&#39;s best athletes fight the noble Olympic battle in stadiums and pools, their fans storm the streets of Athens, turning the Greek capital into a huge international party every night.
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The sailing and canoe-kayak events have closed at the Athens Olympics while athletics, wrestling, and basketball will give fans plenty to cheer at the Athens Olympics.
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The athletes have packed up. Olympic banners are coming down. But another challenge for the city of Athens is just beginning. It&#39;s a realization that&#39;s just starting to hit the Olympic hosts
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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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Wednesday night in the Olympic Stadium, a 25-year-old Greek woman named Fani Halkia won the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles as more than 60,000 fans, many of them flag-waving countrymen, went wild.
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Photos of the best of the action in Athens on day five of the Olympic Games.
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With an outpouring of joy, pride and some relief, Athens marked the completion of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games with a closing ceremony full of spectacle, fireworks and music.
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ATHENS: Fireworks lit up the sky in Athens Friday as the 12th Paralympic Games officially got under way to a chorus of drums and a sea of dancers.
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The Olympic hosts are winning rave reviews after the first week of the Athens Games, with foreign visitors expressing delight with the friendly, clean and well-organised Greek capital.
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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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A disruptive Greek chorus of whistles, chanting, and catcalls could not derail a crowd-silencing American sweep in the men&#39;s 200-meter dash at the Olympic Games last night.
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Tens of thousands of flag-waving, cheering fans took to the streets of central London to honour their Athens Olympic and Paralympic medal winners.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The Greeks arrived with their flags of deep blue and white, their strongest voices and their highest hopes Tuesday night at the Helliniko Indoor Arena.
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A spectacular opening ceremony for the XII Paralympics took place in front of a sellout 60,000 crowd at the Athens Olympic Stadium on Friday.
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ATHENS -- A disruptive Greek chorus of whistles, chanting, and catcalls could not derail a crowd-silencing American sweep in the men's 200-meter dash at the Olympic Games last night.
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The Athens 2004 Paralympic Games began with an opening ceremony that was greeted with the warm applause of thousands of spectators who filled the Olympic Stadium as they did for the opening of the Olympic Games last month.
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More than 3,800 disabled athletes gathered Friday in Athens, Greece, for the opening ceremony of the largest Paralympics in the games&#39; 44-year history.