Final Cost Of Athens 2004 Spirals
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The final cost of the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games, at $11.6 billion, was $3.1 billion more than originally estimated. But according to Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis, the figure does not include
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Athens is slowly warming to the idea of hosting the Paralympics after at first trying to get out of staging the event. Soon after Sydney had hosted the 2000 Olympics and Paralympics, the Athens 2004 organising
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The total cost of Athens Olympics was nearly 9.0 billion euros (11.5 billion US dollars), almost double the amount forecast a year before the Games, Greece&#39;s Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis said on Friday.
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The expected cost of the 2012 Olympics has risen from Â£2.4bn to at least Â£3.3bn, the culture secretary tells MPs.
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ATHENS, Greece - Costs for the Athens Olympics are climbing again, expected to top $8.5 billion because of the massive security and overruns in the last-minute scramble to get venues ready.
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The bill arrived for the Athens Olympics yesterday -- about $11.6 billion, and it might climb higher. The tally announced by the government
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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 bill arrived for the Athens Olympics on Friday -- about $11.6 billion, and it might climb higher. The tally announced by the government was almost double the original estimate, making the games by far the most expensive in Olympic history.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Hosting the 2010   Winter Olympics in Vancouver will cost taxpayers at least C$2.5   billion ($2.2 billion), far more than government officials   claim, according to an auditor's report on Thursday.
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The bill arrived for the Athens Olympics on Friday &#151; about &#36;11.6 billion, and it might climb higher. The tally announced by the government was almost double the original estimate, making the games by far the most expensive in Olympic history. The 2000 Sydney Games cost &#36;1.5 billion and the 1996 Atlanta Games &#36;1.72 billion.
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AS the excitement of the Athens Olympic Games fades, the build-up to Beijing 2008 is in full swing. The countdown to China began last weekend when Beijing&#39;s mayor took possession of the Olympic flag at the Athens closing ceremony.
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More than Â£100million profit is expected to be made from staging the 2012 Olympic Games in London, it has been claimed. The estimate forms part of the London 2012 bid book handed into the International Olympic Committee on Monday.
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New York, Paris, London, Madrid and Moscow submitted their final bids to be host of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Â¶The very pleasant Games most people experienced, superimposed on one of the world&#39;s historic cities. Â¶The very expensive Games that Greeks will have to underwrite for decades.
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For Americans, it&#39;s just as well that the Olympics came to a conclusion Sunday. Over the weekend, the ends of America&#39;s almost
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Latest estimates of the costs of hosting the Athens Olympics put them at up to $10bn - a huge amount for a small country like Greece, once the poorest in the EU.