Greeks plan no ticket bonanza
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Olympics officials say they will not give away free tickets in a bid to get spectators into unfilled venues.
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ATHENS - The Olympic oracles had long prophesied doom for the Summer Games&#39; Greek homecoming. Unfinished venues. Lax security.
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In summing up the Athens Games, the first order of business is to extend a big &quot;sorry&quot; to the Greeks. Nothing blew up and nothing collapsed, and nothing less has been accomplished than the
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Greece, the brashest team at the European Basketball Championship who usually fears no one, looks as if it needs a pep talk.
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The athletes have packed up. Olympic banners are coming down. But another challenge for the city of Athens is just beginning. It&#39;s a realization that&#39;s just starting to hit the Olympic hosts
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ATHENS -- No Greek has pushed harder, or stands to win more, from these Olympic Games than the woman who organized them. And when the Olympic flame goes out in the Olympic Stadium tonight, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki will turn her formidable energy and organizational might to closing the books on the $9 billion-plus Games -- and perhaps, to the goal many ...
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Greece, an ancient nation, searched its soul over a new doping scandal on Saturday while Michael Phelps, a fresh-faced American teenager, prepared to enter the Olympic record books without having to swim a stroke.
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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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Two top Greek athletes will today learn if they will be banned from competing in the Olympics following a drugs scandal.
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For lack of a better phrase, we'll call them the TSP No-Shows.
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Description: In the weeks leading up to the Olympics in Athens, hotels expected huge crowds to flood the city. Instead, people are staying away not only from the Games, but the city&#39;s hotels as well. Many blame the lack of crowds on price gouging. NPR&#39;s ...
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The European Union last night started legal action against Athens after it was revealed that a systematic under-reporting of Greece&#39;s budget deficit should have ruled the country out of joining the single currency.
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Greece has agreed to loan London's British Museum a collection of priceless Minoan-era antiquities for an exhibition to be held by 2009, the Greek culture ministry has said.
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Squeezed by a swelling public deficit and debt following last month's costly Athens Olympics, the Greek government said it would cut defence spending and boost revenue by 1.5 billion euros (1.84 billion dollars) in privatisation receipts.
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ATHENS (CP) - Greece bid farewell Sunday to its guests from 201 countries at the close of the 2004 Olympic Games, having proved that one of the world&#39;s smallest countries could pull off the biggest sports show on Earth.
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Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou are charged with avoiding a drug test on the eve of the Olympics.
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In 2000, Greece brought home 13 medals. The Greek Olympic Committee hopes to double that number.