Report: Olympics displace 2 million
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The Olympic Games have led to the displacement of more than 2 million people in the last 20 years, mostly minorities such as the homeless, the poor, Roma and African-Americans, a rights group said Tuesday.
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In 2000, Greece brought home 13 medals. The Greek Olympic Committee hopes to double that number.
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BEIJING : Beijing Olympic organizers are seeking ways to cut up to six billion yuan (724 million US dollars) off the cost of building Games venues, including possibly moving the equestrian events to Hong Kong.
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The Athens Olympics will cost a total of  almost 10 billion euros ($12.09 billion), more than double the  original target, pushing Greece's budget gap well above EU  limits, finance ministry sources said on Wednesday.
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Â· Chinese most exposed to displacement for games Â· 1,000 Londoners may have to move, says report
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Hundreds of thousands of athletes,  officials and visitors waved goodbye to Athens in a  post-Olympics exodus on Monday, leaving city officials to probe  a doping scandal that tarnished an otherwise dream Games.
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THE Athens Summer Olympic Games cost host country Greece nearly 9 billion euros ($15.23 billion), Greek Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis said today, citing definitive figures.
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Greece said the government will spend 7.2 billion euros ($9.3 billion) on the Athens Olympics, 56 percent more than the initial budget, as construction delays and security for the first Summer Games since the Sept.
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NEW YORK  - Midway through the race  between Olympics past and present, this year's edition is  outrunning its predecessor from four years ago.
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If Greece, with 10m people, can pull off the Games at the 11th hour, why not? THE final weekend of the Olympics is at hand, and the reckoning is nigh.
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Millions of people around the world watched the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens over the past two weeks. Most viewers simply marvel at the talents of the world's best athletes, but a select few watch and realistically envision themselves among the elite.
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ATHENS - Ten seconds. Barely time enough to tie a shoe, wash a glass, get the paper off the porch. But when the moment comes, and eight men kneel at their blocks and peer down the empty, waiting track, it is as if the entire Olympics stop to watch.
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Under 15,000 people have been moved to make way for China's Olympic venues, organisers say, fewer than rights groups claim.
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A different way of calculating the medal standings brings some interesting results.
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ATHENS - Canada won two more medals yesterday, bringing our tally to nine as the Olympic Games enter their final weekend. Canadian athletes are in the hunt for more medals today with the hope of at least tying
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In the midst of the heaving throng of more than 100,000 who turned out in Athens to welcome home the victorious Greek soccer team last month, someone asked how Athens would deal with the crowds during the Olympics.
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Athens was better than Olympus had ever been for US rowing octophiles. The men's eight won gold for the first time in 40 years and the women's took silver, their best showing at a non-boycotted Games. But the way the US Olympic Committee saw it, it was just two medals across 14 rowing events, as many as the Belarussians collected.