Tourists award gold to Athens
630065
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.
720435
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.
246941
China&#39;s Olympic gold medallists visited Hong Kong this week generating adoring crowds and conveying an unspoken but unmistakable message -- vote for pro-Beijing candidates in Hong Kong&#39;s legislative election on Sunday.
606905
Many of Britain&#39;s Olympic medal winners had already done a lap of honour in Athens, the civic reception and some even appeared on A Question of Sport.
545970
The 28th Olympic Games came to an end in Athens, Greece with an exuberant closing ceremony. There was drama up to the last gold medal with a spectator running onto the course of men&#39;s marathon with about 15 minutes to go.
709686
London - Tens of thousands of flag-waving, cheering Britons took to the streets of central London on Monday to honour their Athens Olympic and Paralympic medal winners.
679147
Norway, Germany, France, Britain  Romania, New Zealand and Australia all looted the gold-medal  chest in the Athens Olympic rowing basin on Saturday, as Greece  counted the cost of the Games in national pride and treasure.
174772
China&#39;s Olympic athletes, who won a record 32 gold medals in Athens, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to a hero&#39;s welcome from dozens of dancers, drummers, a brass band and throngs of wellwishers.
658026
Some 50 mainland Olympic gold medallists arrived in Hong Kong Monday to applause from cheering crowds, beginning a three-day visit to provide adoring fans a chance to see the athletes up close.
493292
Despite sluggish ticket sales and a scandal involving their star athletes, members of Winnipeg&#39;s Greek community are still thrilled Greece is hosting this year&#39;s Olympic Games. &quot;There&#39;s a lot of excitement,&quot; said Chris Iacovidis, president of the Greek ...
104666
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece  -- Adam Nelson couldn&#39;t help himself. While parading with his silver medal around the ancient site that gave birth to the Olympics 28 centuries ago, he paused to look at the mark in the dirt he thought was his gold-medal spot.
209202
FOR most spectators in the Olympic stadium, the lavish closing ceremony in Athens last night was a chance to revel in the self-congratulation and relief that traditionally comprise end-of-games euphoria.
282741
ATHENS, Greece - Itâs official - the Olympics were a success. The venues were not only finished but they stayed standing, transportation ran on time, streets were clean and security did such a good job that even petty crime went down.
26119
Greece was plunged in national  self-satisfaction on Tuesday after its synchronized divers won  the host nation's first gold medal of the Athens Olympics.
320191
ATHENS -- Evita Agiasoteli has been counting Greece's Olympic medals. Each one comes with a celebration from the boy next door, who likes to run through their neighborhood in the northern Athenian suburb of Nea Ionia yelling &quot;Hellas!&quot; with each gold. Other neighbors often leave their evening yogurts unfinished so they can join the boy's victory cheer.
111456
The flame went out on the Olympics during a closing ceremony Sunday night that honored the birthplace of the games with an ebullient display of Greek pride and symbolism, a relief-filled celebration of the ancient and the new.
351731
Britain&#39;s Kelly Holmes and Morocco&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj earned their places among Olympic athletic legends here on Saturday as they won their second golds of the Games.