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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  Olympic venues in Athens - Athens Info Guide
The Helliniko Olympic Complex, the former Athens Airport, is situated south of Athens and includes five Olympic venues: indoor Arena and fencing hall, Olympic baseball center, Olympic softball stadium, Olympic canoe/kayak slalom center and the Olympic hockey center.
The Olympic Hockey Center is a new construction, in the south of Athens, with one large pitch of 7.300 seats and a smaller one of 2.100.
The Olympic Softball Stadium is a new construction situated in the heart of the Helliniko Olympic Complex in the south of Athens.
www.athensinfoguide.com /olympicvenues.htm   (2328 words)

  
 Goudi Olympic Complex - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Goudi Olympic Complex is a sports complex in Athens, Greece.
The Goudi Olympic Hall hosted the Badminton events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.The hall seats 5,000 spoectators.
The Olympic Modern Pentathlon Centre was the site of the Modern Pentathlon events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Goudi_Olympic_Complex   (191 words)

  
 ESA - Observing the Earth - Athens Olympics Sports Complexes
The first image – a sprawling stadium complex surrounded by suburbs, with a main road above it - is the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Maroussi, including the Olympic Stadium which hosts the opening and closing ceremonies, the athletics events and the football gold medal match.
Also within the Complex is the Olympic Indoor Hall, where the basketball finals take place, the Olympic Tennis Centre and the Olympic Velodrome.
The second image visited is the 6500-seater Galatsi Olympic Hall - in the suburb of Galatsi northwest of Athens – completed in May to host the table tennis and gymnastics events.
www.esa.int /esaEO/SEMYM40XDYD_index_0.html   (374 words)

  
 Goudi Olympic Hall - Athens Olympics 2004 - ABC Sport.
The Goudi Olympic Hall will host the badminton and the shooting and fencing disciplines of the modern pentathlon at Athens 2004.
It is part of the Goudi Olympic Complex which also houses the Modern Pentathlon Centre.
The complex, which is near the centre of Athens, also includes two further indoor halls, a park and a wood.
abc.net.au /olympics/2004/venues/badminton.htm   (252 words)

  
 The Hindu : Glitzy venues getting ready
Athens Olympic Sports Complex: Located at Maroussi, the Athens Olympic Sports Complex (OAKA) will be the centre of the Olympic Games 2004 and includes the Olympic Stadium, the Olympic Aquatic Centre, the Olympic Indoor Hall, where the basketball finals will be held, the Olympic Tennis Centre and the Olympic Velodrome.
Olympic Stadium: On the joint initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Athens 2004, internationally acclaimed Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava designed the 16,000-ton glass-and-steel dome at an estimated cost of 80 million pound sterling.
Goudi Olympic Complex: Split into the Goudi Olympic Hall and the Modern Pentathlon Centre, these will stage badminton and five events of the modern pentathlon between them.
www.hindu.com /mp/2004/08/12/stories/2004081201680400.htm   (739 words)

  
 Olympics Racquet/Target: Archery, Badminton, Shooting, Table Tennis, Tennis - CBS SportsLine.com
The Olympic Tennis Centre is situated at Maroussi and is part of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex.
The Olympic Shooting Centre in Markopoulo, in the east Attica region, covers an area of 312,000 sq m.
The Goudi Olympic Complex is an important section in the whole Olympic Works program, as it will host Modern Pentathlon and Badminton.
cbs.sportsline.com /olympics/summer/target   (485 words)

  
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The Olympic Baseball Centre, part of the Helliniko Olympic Complex, in the south of Athens, is a new construction which will host the sport of Baseball, a less familiar sport for Greece but not for the rest of the sports world.
The Olympic Hockey Centre is a new construction, in the south of Athens, with one large pitch of 12,000 seats and a smaller one of 3,000 seats.
The Olympic Softball Stadium is a new construction unit situated in the heart of the Helliniko Olympic Complex in the south of Athens.
www.medcollection.com /region.asp?lc=64&st=1   (2197 words)

  
 athens 2004 olympic game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
During the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, Athletics events will be staged at the Athens Olympic Stadium in the Athens Olympic Sports Complex (OAKA), with the exception of the Marathon, the Road Walk events and the Shot-put that will be held in the Ancient Olympia Stadium.
During the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, Badminton competitions will be staged in the Goudi Olympic Hall, which has a seating capacity of 5,000.
During the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, Judo competitions will be staged in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall, which has a seating capacity of 8,000.
www.olympic-games-sportbook.com   (1377 words)

  
 SI.com - Modern pentathlon factbox for Athens 2004 - Sunday July 11, 2004 7:48PM
The only sport created solely for the Olympic Games, modern pentathlon is supposed to reflect the ancient Greek ideal of the well-rounded athlete competing in several disciplines.
Olympic Modern Pentathlon Centre in the Goudi Olympic Complex in central Athens.
The complex can seat 2,500 spectators at the swimming, 5,000 at the riding and running and 3,000 at the fencing and shooting.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/olympics/2004/07/11/bc.sport.olympics.modern   (383 words)

  
 Olympics Athletics: Modern Pentathlon, Track & Field, Triathlon, Weightlifting - CBS SportsLine.com
The Olympic Stadium, the centre of the Olympic Games 2004, is situated at Maroussi and is part of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex (OAKA).
The Goudi Olympic Complex consists of two venues: the Olympic Gymnasium of Goudi and the Olympic Centre of Modern Pentathlon.
The Olympic Weightlifting Hall in Nikaia, an area in the southwest of the Attica region, consists of a main Indoor Gym building with a capacity of 5,000 seats.
cbs.sportsline.com /olympics/summer/athletics   (455 words)

  
 Palau National Olympic Commitee
The Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre is a new, permanent construction, as is the Olympic Hockey Centre.
The Goudi Olympic Complex consists of two venues: the Goudi Olympic Hall and the Olympic Modern Pentathlon Centre.
The complex includes a 2,500 seated area for swimming, two 5,000 seated areas for riding and running and one 3,000 seated area for fencing and shooting.
www.oceaniasport.com /palau/index.cgi?det=1&intArticleID=57&sID=35   (926 words)

  
 Modern Pentathlon Centre - Athens Olympics 2004 - ABC Sport.
The other two - shooting and fencing - will be contested in the Goudi Olympic Hall which, together with the Modern Pentathlon Centre, makes up the Goudi Olympic Complex situated close to central Athens.
There is a 2,500-seat area inside the modern pentathlon complex to cater for swimming while the riding and running areas can seat 5,000 spectators.
The complex also includes two further indoor halls, a park and a wood.
www.abc.net.au /olympics/2004/venues/pentathlon.htm   (256 words)

  
 SI.com - Capsules on Olympic events - Monday August 9, 2004 12:49AM
Four-time world under-20 champion Argentina is left as the favorite in the 16-team field, although the Olympic tournament is tough to gauge because rules restrict teams to players under 23, with three exemptions.
Sure to draw plenty of attention is Tammy Crow, allowed to compete by the U.S. Olympic Committee despite pleading no-contest to vehicular manslaughter charges in a crash that killed her boyfriend and a 12-year-old boy.
Gail Devers made her fifth Olympic team, but is going for her first gold medal in the 100 hurdles.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/olympics/2004/07/19/sport.capsules   (3928 words)

  
 Venues for Olympics 2004 Greece
The Helliniko Olympic Complex is located in the south of Athens.
Ano Liossia Olympic Hall (northwest region of Athens)- wrestling and Judo.
The Goudi Olympic Complex - Modern Pentathlon, and Badminton.
www.holidayaccommodationgreece.com /project/search/Olympic-Venues.php   (304 words)

  
 Welcome to rediff.com : Sports - Athens 2004 Venues
Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre — 10,000 seats — Beach Volleyball Nearly 100 athletes will compete in a 9,600-seat complex in Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex, 25 kilometers from the Olympic Village in Athens.
The Helliniko Olympic Complex is twenty miles south of the Olympic Village
Goudi Olympic Complex — 3 total areas - Modern Pentathlon, 2,000 seats area for Swimming, 5,000 seats for Riding and Running and 4,500 seats for Fencing and Shooting.
in.rediff.com /sports/ath04ven.htm   (404 words)

  
 Olympics
Until the changes in transportation for the 2004 summer Olympics, the only way to reach the airport by public transport was by bus, but now both the Metro and the Suburban Railway lead to and from the airport.
The Parnitha Olympic Mountain Bike Venue held the Cycling/Mountain Bike competition along a magnificent route at a mountain situated in the north of Athens.
The Schinas Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre is near the Marathonas region.
schools.lwsd.org /ICS/ISOver/rivers1/Olympics.htm   (1399 words)

  
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The Goudi Olympic Complex is just a few kilometres south of the main Olympic Stadium in Athens, and just under 30km south of the Olympic Village.
The main use for the Goudi Olympic Hall is for the Badminton competition, which will be held from August 14-21.
The area of the whole complex is 230,000 square metres.
www.angelfire.com /wa3/goldenglory/2004/venues/goudi.htm   (108 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Ready or not ...
It is designed by famed Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, and it consists of 18,000 tons of tubular steel and wire cables and polycarbonate panels, a structure so large and unwieldy that it completely envelops an existing 60,000-seat stadium and requires special rails to slide into place at the precarious rate of 17 feet per hour.
The tram line that is supposed to connect downtown Athens with the southern complex of venues is nowhere close to finished.
For the past year, the International Olympic Committee has been suggesting a similar course of action with the main Olympic stadium that will host the track and field competition as well as Opening and Closing Ceremonies.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/20040509-9999-lz1s9sunspc.html   (1013 words)

  
 ireland.com / Today / Sport / Olympics 2004
The Complex is situated at the south of Athens and comprises three Olympic Venues, the Sports Pavilion, the Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre and the Peace and Friendship Stadium.
Part of the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex, the Volleyball Centre boasts a brand new 9,600-seater court which was bedded in during a test event last summer.
Located at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex, the Peace and Friendship Stadium is architecturally stunning.
www.ireland.com /sports/olympics2004/venues/faliro.htm   (194 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner - A learning experience for Nigella - Sunday | August 15, 2004
Jamaica's Nigella Saunders returns the shuttlecock during her first-round match against Mia Audina of the Netherlands in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games at the Goudi Olympic Complex yesterday.
She earned the right to mix with the world's top 32 badminton players and her qualification may also have been a shot in the arm for the local game.
She urged young Jamaican badminton players to aim for the Olympic dream as the opportunity is there for those with discipline and determination.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20040815/sports/sports2.html   (453 words)

  
 The Hindu : Glitzy venues getting ready
The two roof arches have been erected, but Calatrava himself believes the structure would be complete only on the eve of the inaugural ceremony.
Extensive landscaping has taken place as well as improving the infrastructure for the complex, such as the internal road network and walkways.
The facility is completed by two further indoor halls, the Olympic Park and the Military Wood.
www.hindu.com /mp/2004/07/29/stories/2004072901070400.htm   (537 words)

  
 The games they'll play | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Diamond is the '96 and 2000 gold medalist from Australia but missed the 2004 Olympic Trials after being arrested for beating up his girlfriend (when he thought she was flirting with another man at her grandmother's 80th birthday party) and having an expired firearms license.
Outlook: For the second straight Olympics, five-time national champion Jennifer Parilla of Orange County will be the U.S.' lone trampolinist in Athens, and she's never placed higher in the Worlds than her seventh place in 1996.
Her last Olympic appearance came as a 19-year-old in 1988, but she was dropped from the U.S. national team in 1990 after failing a drug test for marijuana and spent the last decade playing professionally in Europe.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040813/news_mz1x13p11to1.html   (4720 words)

  
 greece olympic games - apartment athens - PSIHIKO 029 - 2 Bedroom
This is a two-bedroom apartment on the ground floor in a cluster of apartments.
This property is centrally situated between the airport, downtown Athens, the Olympic Stadium, the sports facilities in Marathon, and the horse riding facilities in Markopoulo.
It is an under 10 minute drive to the Olympic Stadium.
olympics.greece.com /athens/houses/PSIHIKO_029.html   (224 words)

  
 2004 Summer Olympics
Wood was the 2004 Olympic trials champion and came in 2nd at the 2004 U.S. nationals.
He served as adviser for the U.S. boxing team in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and was named 2002 Coach of the Year.
Parker placed 1st in the 2004 Olympic trials and was the 2003 USA Outdoor champion.
www.defenselink.mil /specials/2004Olympics   (660 words)

  
 Press Box - USA Daily from the 2004 Olympic Games - 8/26/2004
In her memory, he is gathering signed Olympic items from the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team for an auction to be held in October.
Olympic cycling shifts to Mt. Parnitha on Friday with the women's cross country mountain bike event.
For 20-year-old Abdallah, this will be her first taste of Olympic competition, but not her first time to compete in the venue that is hosting the event.
www.usocpressbox.org /usoc/pressbox.nsf/05d409f9240f65c087256c690010d98e/8f949d6f3cc30d9385256efd00025fcd?OpenDocument   (4201 words)

  
 ATHENS 2004 OLYMPICS: General Fact Sheet
• 60% of the routes in the Olympic Village are for pedestrians.
The Official Opening of the Olympic Village is on the 30th of July 2004 and the Official Closing is on the 1st of September 2004.
Olympia offers a unique opportunity for the Olympic Games and their history to become widely known, for them to be revived in the places where they were born.
www.greekembassy.org /Embassy/content/en/Article.aspx?office=3&folder=200&article=12033   (6897 words)

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