Greece gets gold for Athens effort
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Three months ago, US beach volleyball player Jeff Nygaard expressed the prevailing view of the upcoming Olympic Games. ``It&#39;s like when you go see a movie,&#39;&#39; Nygaard said.
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Greece staged a giant party on Sunday to  celebrate bringing the Olympics back to their spiritual  homeland in triumphant style.
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Greece found a new athletics god to replace the disgraced Kostas Kederis and Ekaterini Thanou in their hearts when Fani Halkia won gold in the 400 metres hurdles in the Olympic Stadium last night.
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Britain's men's 4x100m relay team win a stunning gold medal in Athens.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The last battle of the Athens Summer Olympics is over. The dispute over who won the men&#39;s all-around gymnastics Gold Medal has been resolved, at least officially.
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Michael Phelps wins more golds in Athens than Holland, New Zealand, Spain and Canada.
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Greece will bid farewell to the 2004 Olympic Games at Sunday's closing ceremony.
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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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Athens celebrates as Greece secure a surprise win in the men's synchronised diving.
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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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In 1997, in Athens, he won his first gold medal at the World Championships. In 1999, in the 100 meters, the sprinter broke the world record here.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Wherever they can, the Greeks seek to incorporate some customs and traditions of the original Olympics.
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This year&#39;s Olympic Games in Athens cost nearly nine billion euros ($11.5 billion), almost double the amount forecast a year before the opening ceremony, the Greek finance minister said on Friday.
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ATHENS, Greece -- In a rented warehouse in Athens&#39; Alimos neighborhood, a group of Greek florists with blistered fingers are working to be a part of Olympic history.
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Reliving its glory days as a gymnastics power, Japan captured the men&#39;s team gold medal at the Athens Olympics on Monday.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Olympic supremo Jacques Rogge today offered gold medals all round to Athens for organising a superb Olympics after years of doom and gloom leading up to the opening.
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ATHENS, Greece--With a laurel wreath on his head and a gold medal draped around his neck, Jeremy Wariner, 20, was asked to describe the view.