'Great Escape' from Athens Runs Smoothly
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Hundreds of thousands of Olympic  athletes and visitors began what Greek media termed the "Great  Escape" from Athens on Monday, an exodus that has run as  smoothly as the Games themselves.
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Seven passengers have been released from the bus hijacked by two gunmen carrying 26 passengers on the outskirts of Athens. Shots were fired at police who surrounded it on the outskirts of Athens.
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All the action from the finale to the Athens Olympics.
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The 83rd running of the $1.92 million Prix de l&#39;Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Sunday, while hardly the greatest renewal of Europe&#39;s championship race, is hardly lackluster
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ATHENS, Greece Formal charges, and an appeal for calm. They're the latest developments in the arrests of two Albanian immigrants charged with staging an 18-hour bus hijacking and hostage siege in Athens.
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Olympics chief Jacques Rogge heaped praise on Greek organisers and declared the Athens Games an all-round success. Television ratings are 15% up from the 2000 Games in Sydney, while ticket sales have topped figures from the Seoul and Barcelona Olympics.
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I&#39;m leaving the Olympics and heading home, assuming the plane can lift me. This is a concern because I&#39;ve gained many kilometers of mass from eating Greek food, especially &quot;baklava
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When I compare the current attack of the Olympics with the original Games in ancient Greece, a theme emerges. Back then, athletes were occasionally disemboweled and those who stepped over the line were flogged.
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Team GB will fly home on Monday after collecting 30 medals in Athens.
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ATHENS  - Experience acquired by Greek police during the summer&#39;s Olympic Games proved critical in the successful outcome of the bus hijack crisis which ended with the hostages being released unharmed and the gunmen arrested.
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ATHENS At the end of the first week of the Olympic Games, security officials are generally pleased, even surprised, by the calm so far, though they caution that a safe opening ceremony and first week may encourage a laxness that could yet give terrorists
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The Olympic Games are a week old! Not bad for an event first recorded in 776 BC. The Games have so far gone much better than anyone really expected.
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A Greek plane has landed safely atStansted Airport, north of London, after a bomb alert forced it tomake a diversion, the BBC reports on Sunday.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The first road cycling race since these Olympics began was on a course circling the 2,500-year-old Parthenon on the Acropolis.
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A bus carrying more than 20 passengers in the Greek capital of Athens was hijacked by unknown armed perpetrators earlier today. Security forces cordoned the bus and the driver, who was able to escape from
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used during the Olympic race of the same name this summer, police said on Wednesday. to the airport so they can leave the country,&quot; Nikos Koutsogiorgos, head of the company that owns the commuter bus, told reporters.
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Plentiful buses, helpful volunteers, and efficient security have added up to &#39;positive surprises&#39; for the host city. There are many measures by which to judge the success of an Olympic Games: records broken, medals won, dreams fulfilled or dashed.