Tremor felt in Greek capital during Olympics
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ATHENS, Greece - A small earthquake rattled some Olympic venues Tuesday. There were no reports of injuries or damage. The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the tremor had a preliminary magnitude of 4.5 and occurred at 3:38 pm local time.
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The Olympics turned ugly when  unforgiving Greeks, incensed that fallen hero Costas Kenteris  was missing from the 200 meters, delayed the final by booing  and chanting for five minutes.
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ATHENS, Greece - Costs for the Athens Olympics are climbing again, expected to top $8.5 billion because of the massive security and overruns in the last-minute scramble to get venues ready.
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ATHENS, Greece -- If international gymnastics is a brick house, the mortar holding it together is a conglomerate of finger-pointing, dubious judging, scandal, complaining and bald-faced weeping.
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A powerful earthquake is felt across Greece and shakes buildings in the capital, Athens.
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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 Olympic Games had barely reached the halfway point when a stream of Greek politicians were already declaring victory for averting a long-feared terrorist incident.
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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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An extraordinary display of &quot;people power&quot; brought pandemonium to the final evening of Olympic gymnastics. The crowd&#39;s gasps of awe turned into howls of fury on Monday night when the score flashed up on the
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ATHENS, Greece -- If you recall, my concerns involved car bombings, kidnappings, beheadings and Al Qaeda. So when the scariest moment of the Olympics involves a defrocked, kilt-wearing Irish priest who tackles
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"Unlike the majority of earthquakes in Greece this one occurred deep under land"  A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale shook many parts of Greece on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, seismologists at the Athens Geodynamic Institute ... via Earth Times
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Greece was rocked by the threat of being  stripped of an Athens Games medal and the host nation's team  manager offered to quit on Friday, as doping overshadowed  Michael Phelps' drive to be Olympic swimming's top medal  winner.
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Description: The tab for staging the Olympic Games will increase Greece&#39;s budget deficit and will likely put additional strain on its already fragile economy.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympia, home of the Olympics for more than 12 centuries, hosted a track and field event for the first time in 1,611 years when the shot-putters of the Athens Games arrived at Greece&#39;s most sacred sporting site.
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Twin earthquakes rattled the western Greek port of Patras, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage, officials said Tuesday.
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An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale jolted Athens and central Greece on Tuesday but caused no damage or injuries, Greek authorities said.
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Greece staged an exuberant closing  ceremony on Sunday to bring the curtain down on the Athens  Games, which took the Olympics back to their roots and provided  drama right down to the last gold medal.