In Athens, Gray Matters
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Something funny happened on the way to the Games. The athletes got older.
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ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece, Aug. 27 -- Firefighters backed by aircraft dropped water and foam on the birthplace of the ancient Olympics on Sunday to stop wildfires from burning the 2,800-year-old ruins, one of the most revered sites of antiquity.
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The heady days of the Athens Games are over. Colorful banners have been pulled down and stadiums built in a rush of last-minute construction lay empty. Now Greeks are bracing for the Olympic-sized bill.
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THE struggle for the soul of the Olympics is still not won, not in a thousand years and more. On Wednesday, token events took place on the sacred site where the original Games took place in Ancient Olympia hundreds of years before Christ.
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ATHENS - An earthquake rattled Athens on Tuesday, including the Olympic venues in the Greek capital. The Athens Geodynamic Institute said that there was a tremor, but few other details were known, such as the magnitude or epicentre of the quake.
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ATHENS, Greece -- It was just after 8 am Wednesday, and across the street from the downtown Hilton, hundreds of media waited for the ultimate Greek tragedy to reach its sad conclusion.
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Athens - The Athens Olympics have turned from party to tragedy for hosts Greece after doping scandals involving three of their top athletes.
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Two months ago when the Mayor of Athens visited London, she told a story about the preparations for the Athens Games. It went like this: a delegation from Athens visited Beijing where the 2008 Games are to be held.
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ATHENS, Greece - Greek authorities dealt with more than 700 security scares during the Athens Games, including a bomb hoax before the opening ceremony and a propane leak at a luxury hotel that was hosting hundreds of representatives from major Olympic
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A member of the Chinese Olympic Committee came to Athens last May. He visited our Olympic sites, which were still under construction, and met members of the Greek Olympic Committee.
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ATHENS, Aug. 9 (IPS) - A group of non-white labourers is busy planting  shrubs by the side of the main Olympics stadium in Athens. The  Greek contractor overseeing them is a man in a hurry.
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ATHENS - No question where to watch the sun set on these Olympics. It was here, on the white marble slab benches of Panathinaiko Stadium, just as the bobbing gaggle of rail-thin runners made their way from Marathon.
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ATHENS, Greece  Their own country has a hard time celebrating a silver medal. If it isn&#39;t gold, it&#39;s symbolic of second place or third place, and that&#39;s just not the American way when it comes to the Olympic Games.
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ATHENS -- Long before the parade of black belts at the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall in yesterday's judo competition for men and women, the specter of politics was apparent.
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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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Greece are quick out of the blocks when it comes to making money out of their Olympic medal winners.
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With world attention focussed upon Athens this month, Greece is certainly basking in the spotlight.