Cost of Gold in Olympics: $12.1 Bln
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The Athens Olympics will cost a total of almost 10 billion euros ($12.1 billion), more than double the original target, pushing Greece&#39;s budget gap well above EU limits, finance ministry sources said on Wednesday.
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Britain add two swimming golds and a shooting gold on day two in Athens.
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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 cash.
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The government will today outline how the National Lottery will be repaid the Â£675m that is to be siphoned off to pay for the escalating costs of the London 2012 Olympics.
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Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus wins 100m gold ahead of Lauryn WIlliams.
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ATHENS, Greece The Dominican Republic has its first Olympic gold medal. Felix Sanchez won the men&#39;s 400 meter hurdles in 47-point-63 seconds.
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Gold medals are rare enough commodities but they become even more precious when won as unexpectedly as those by Britain&#39;s 4x100 metres relay team on Saturday.
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Ministers are discussing a final cost for the 2012 Olympics four times the initial estimate, the BBC learns.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- Olympic organizers announced that more than half of available tickets (3.1 million) to the Games have been sold, almost reaching the budget for purchases.
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Sport: Athletics: If Christine Ohuruogu wins gold in the 400m her legal fees of Â£20,000 will be easily covered.
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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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Description: The International Gymnastics Federation asks US gymnast Paul Hamm to give his Olympic all-around gold medal to South Korea&#39;s Yang Tae-young.
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The IOC fine the Austrian Olympic Committee Â£500,000 over the doping affair at last year's Turin Winter Games.
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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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THE Australian Olympic Committee today announced funding of more than $17 million to prepare Australian athletes for the Beijing Olympics.
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The cost of staging the 2012 Olympics could soar to nine billion pounds - nearly four times the 2.35 billion estimated by London ahead of sealing the bid.
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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.