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Yugoslavia has just been the world champion... - Athens
Yugoslavia has just been the world champion...
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Olympics 2004: Patience for good...
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  • The closing ceremony of the Olympic Games (29/8) - Athens
    The closing ceremony of the
    Olympic Games (29/8)
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    The Olympic Stadium was closed for more than 2 years, with the purpose to be renovated to host the Olympic Games of 2004. So -except other works- new seats were put and an impressive construction (roof with arcs) by -whom else?- S. Calatrava was fast made, which gave to the stadium a modern and majestical bearing.

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    ...and during the night
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  • By AndyRG on November 2, 2004
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  • Amazing, isn't it? - Athens
    Amazing, isn't it?
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    The atmoshere in the night becomes more magical and you don't have the taste that you are next to a sports complex...

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    During the day...
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  • Ocean? - Athens
    Ocean?
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    "Stoa", "Agora" and a... sea were created outside the Olympic Stadium a few months before the beginning of the Olympic Games, according to the plans of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
    The new "look" of that area is totally different than its old one, for our own good and luck...

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    Olympics 2004: The Olympic Games are over
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  • By QuimG on October 7, 2004
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  • Closing cerimony - Athens
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    Olympics 2004: Basketball forever
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  • Yao Ming - Athens
    Yao Ming
    by andreslo2000
    It is a rare opportunity to see the most known NBA stars on their work (at least if you are not from USA) so I had to see this game.

    ITALY vs CHINA

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  • Address: The great basketball arena, Athens
  • Directions: Sorry folks, but it was really easy to find it with all those busses going every three minutes ( GREAT WORK ORGANIZERS). However I must admit I wouldnt find the place again (without those busses of course :-)
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    The Olympic Stadium
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  • A happy night for AEK... - Athens
    A happy night for AEK...
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    It was built in 1982, with a capacity of 75.000. It has hosted 2 european finals (1983, 1994) and one cupwinners' cup final in 1987 -in football- European and World Championships in athletics too... It is owned by the Greek Olympic Committee.
    At the picture, AEK and Olympiakos (2 greek teams) are coming inside the stadium, at the final of the Greek Cup. AEK, the team which I support (see my travelogue), won 2-1, on 27/4/2002, a happy night...
    During the Olympic Games of 2004, this stadium -having the new impressive roof made by Santiago Calatrava- "lived" its most glorious moments of its own history...

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    Athens Olympic Sports Complex
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  • Jump! - Athens
    Jump!
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    Marousi is a northern suburb 9 km of Athens (22 from the airport), where mainly lies the olympic era. Most of the stadiums are there, like the Olympic Stadium (athletics-football), the stadiums for basketball, aquatics (diving -like at the picture- water polo, swimming, synchronised swimming), cycling, tennis. You can go to Athens Olympic Sports Complex with a lot of ways, the best is by metro ("Eirini" station or "Nerantziotissa" station).

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    Athena and Phevos!
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  • Athena and Phevos by flowers - Athens
    Athena and Phevos by flowers
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    These were the mascots of the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, in front of the Panathinaiko Stadio. A brother and a sister (Phevos is Apollo, the brother of goddess Athena) are the symbols of participation, heritage and celebration...
    The source of inspiration for Athena-Phevos was an ancient greek doll (7th c. BC), it is exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum.
    Many Greeks wanted another type of mascot, they didn't like them, but we were soon got used with Athena and her brother... The mascot about the Paralympic Games was Proteas, rather more beautiful.

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    The connection with the present...
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  • Athens Sports Travel
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    Panathinaiko Stadio is used nowadays in special occasions (celebrations, ceremonies, concerts etc). About 70.000 people can be inside it, as in 1968 and its world record (for details, check the travelogue about AEK).
    At the Olympic Games of 2004 the marathon race (finish) -the original one- and the sport of archestry surely gave more gold pages to the history of the stadium.
    During the night there is illuminance of it, really nice...

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    Pyrros Dimas, the best Greek athlete
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  • The moment of another world record (26/11/1999)... - Athens
    The moment of another world
    record (26/11/1999)...
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    He was born in 1971, at Himarra of Northern Epirus (it belongs in Albania). He has managed to win three golden olympic medals, in Barcelona (1992), in Atlanta (1996) and in Sydney (2000). Athens was the place for the fourth one, this time bronze...
    At the picture, Pyrros, already a myth and national hero, is lifting 180,5 kg -category of 84 kg- and making another world record (Athens, 26/11/1999, World Championship).

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