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	Pyrros Dimas - Phantis
		Pyrros Dimas (Greek: Πύρρος Δήμας; Albanian: Pirro Dhima; born October 13, 1971), is a weightlifter and four-time Olympic champion.
		Dimas was born in Himara, Albania to parents of Greek origin, and emigrated to Greece in 1991.
		Dimas was recovering from knee surgery and a hurt wrist and was not expected to compete in these Olympics, but it was the Olympics in Greece and national heroes rise to the challenge.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Pyrros_Dimas (320 words)

	Pyrros Dimas
		Pyrros Dimas (born October 13, 1971), also known in Albanian as Pirro Dhima, is a weightlifter, a three time Olympic champion.
		Dimas born in Himara (or Chimara), Albania to parents of Greek origin.
		With the 1993 and 1995 World titles under his belt, Dimas was heavily favoured for the 83 kg class at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
	www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Pyrros_Dimas (214 words)

	Pyrros Dimas Information
		Pyrros Dimas (Greek: Πύρρος Δήμας; Albanian: Pirro Dhima; born October 13, 1971), is a weightlifter and three-time Olympic champion.
		Dimas was born in Himara, Albania, and emigrated to Greece in 1991.
		Dimas was recovering from knee surgery and a hurt wrist and was not expected to compete in these Olympics, but it was the Olympics in Greece and national heroes rise to the challenge.
	www.bookrags.com /Pyrros_Dimas (339 words)

	They couldn't wait to uplift hero Dimas - The Boston Globe
		For more than five minutes, the home fans cheered, sang, and chanted in honor of the three-time Olympic weightlifting gold medalist, and never mind that this was taking place at the outset of the medal ceremony and their man was in the unaccustomed position of having just won a bronze.
		Dimas had no choice but to go for broke on his final lift.
		Dimas produced his three children, each wearing a T-shirt with the numeral "4," and put one on each of the medal steps, which certainly made for a supreme Greek photo-op.
	www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/olympics/weightlifting/articles/2004/08/22/they_couldnt_wait_to_uplift_hero_dimas (988 words)

	Dimas lifts weight off host nation's shoulders - Weightlifting -
		When Dimas attempted to equal the Georgian's 202.5kg in the clean and jerk, he opened his mouth to form an O, a noise deep inside his stomach erupted, he pulled the bar to his neck and his mouth snapped shut.
		Dimas and Markoulas were greeted with roars whenever their names flashed up on the scoreboard, signalling a forthcoming attempt, while the theatre was as quiet as a cave when they lifted.
		Dimas had a taped right wrist and there was an inevitability about the Georgian's victory, but when China's Aijun Yuan bounded onto the stage, there was a distinct possibility their 33-year-old icon, a major in the Greek air force, would be out of a medal.
	www.smh.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/08/23/1093113070162.html (710 words)

	USATODAY.com - Greeks stand behind champion weightlifter Dimas
		Pyrros Dimas had failed on his final two lifts in the 187-pound division, and in doing so had failed to become the first weightlifter to win four straight gold medals.
		Dimas rubbed his eyes, lowered his head and sent no signals to his people that they should let the ceremony go on for the sake of men who had lifted heavier weights.
		With Dimas holding that weight in his locked and upright arms, holding it forever as his arms, shoulders, eyeballs and tree-trunk thighs appeared ready to explode, a judge who looked like he couldn't lift an ice cream sandwich motioned for him to drop the bar.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/columnist/oconnor/2004-08-22-oconnor-dimas_x.htm (1082 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Dimas earns third gold medal
		Dimas, forced to make his third lift in the snatch just to stay in the competition after being unnerved by the fan, recovered from missing his first two lifts to win the gold medal at 187¼ pounds (85 kg) Saturday.
		As Dimas, Greece's most popular athlete, stepped to the bar for his first lift (385} pounds, 175 kg¾ in the snatch, the crowd was unusually noisy.
		Dimas, who is 29 and grew up in Albania before emigrating to Greece with his grandparents, hopes to win a fourth gold medal at home in Athens in 2004.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0923/770240.html (713 words)

	ESPN.com - Dimas is going for fourth gold
		Dimas underwent X-rays at the Nikaia Hospital, near the site of the weightlifting competition, but Greek team officials were still awaiting the results of a magnetic resonance imaging test.
		Dimas, known as the "Lion of Chimara" after the town in Albania where he was born to parents of Greek origin, had left knee surgery three months ago.
		Dimas, who competes at 187 pounds (85kg), and Greek teammate Khaki Kakiasvilis, a 207-pounder (94kg), are trying to become the first weightlifters with four consecutive Olympic gold medals.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1860887&type=story (341 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Pyrros Dimas (Greek: Î ÏÏÏÎ¿Ï Î”Î®Î¼Î±Ï; Albanian: Pirro Dhima; born October 13, 1971), is a Greek weightlifter and three-time Olympic champion.
		Dimas was born in Himara, Albania (Northern Epirus) of Greek decent, and emigrated to Greece in 1991.
		Pyrros Dimas - Hall of Fame at Weightlifting Exchange
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Pyrros_Dimas (364 words)

	Pyrros Dimas - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Pyrros Dimas (Greek: Πύρρος Δήμας; born October 13, 1971), also known in Albanian as Pirro Dhima, is a weightlifter, a four times Olympic champion.
		Incidentally, both of these weightlifters were also born in another country; Suleymanoglu in Bulgaria, and Kakiachvilis in Georgia.
		At the 2004 Summer Olympics of Athens, Greece, Pyrros Dimas was the flagbearer of the Greek team, and achieved a bronze medal in the 85 kg class.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=155391 (248 words)

	Pyrros Dimas
		Pyrros Dimas (Albanian: Pirro Dhima) is a weightlifter and three times gold medalist in the 1992,1996 and 2000 Olympics.
		He was born on October 13, 1971 in Himara, Albania to parents of Greek origin.
		He emigrated to Greece in 1991 and changes his name to Pyrros Dimas.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/p/py/pyrros_dimas.shtml (66 words)

	COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIQUE
		Pyrros DIMAS de Grèce réalise un essai pendant l'épreuve d'haltérophilie -82,5kg hommes.
		Pyrros DIMAS de Grèce crie pendant un essai lors de l'épreuve d'haltérophilie -85kg hommes au Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall.
		Pyrros DIMAS de Grèce crie de joie pendant qu'il réussit un essai lors de l'épreuve d'haltérophilie -83kg hommes.
	www.olympic.org /fr/utilities/multimedia/gallery/results_fr.asp?entid=117&MediaType=PIC&page=2 (294 words)

	Testosterone Nation - Pyrros Dimas (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I know there have been a lot of posts about dimas but I found this on youtube and was absolutely amazed.
		I'm a huge Dimas fan, he possesses absolutely mesmerizing strength and athleticism for his size.
		Pyrros stands in my mind as a true hero.
	www.t-nation.com /readTopic.do?id=1224334&pageNo=0 (234 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE
		Pyrros DIMAS of Greece attempts a lift during the men's -85kg weightlifting event at the Convention Center at Darling Harbour.
		Pyrros DIMAS of Greece is lifted off his feet by Marc HUSTER of Germany 2nd (L) and George ASANIDZE of Georgia 3rd (R) after winning the men's -85kg weightlifting event at the Convention Center at Darling Harbour.
		Pyrros DIMAS of Greece shouts as he attempts to make a lift in the men's -85kg category weightlifting competition at Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall.
	www.olympic.org /uk/utilities/multimedia/gallery/results_uk.asp?entid=117&MediaType=PIC&page=2 (302 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		Pyrros Dimas was a member of the Greek ethnic minority in Albania and competed for Albania at the 1990 European Championships.
		Going for a third Olympic title in 2000, Dimas missed his first two snatch attempts and was only in fourth place midway through the competition.
		Dimas returned to the Olympics in Athens in 2004 and earned the bronze, after which he signalled his retirement by leaving his shoes on the platform, while the appreciative Greek crowd gave him a standing ovation.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=64877 (275 words)

	Olympics: Pyrros carries big burden - Telegraph
		One of the most famous people in all of Greece," she said, which seems peculiar to a Briton, as Pyrros Dimas is not a footballer, or a pop singer, but a weightlifter.
		Pyrros will not - cannot - quit before Athens, when he will be carrying the hopes of the host nation on his extraordinary shoulders.
		While Pyrros lifts weights in the training camp on the outskirts of Athens where we met, his wife and three children are at home in his beloved Thessaloniki.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2003/12/19/sopyrr19.xml&sSheet=/sport/2003/12/19/ixothspt.html (776 words)

	Hero's farewell \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Pyrros Dimas, his right wrist heavily wrapped because of a pre-Olympics injury, screams as he lifts 375 pounds in the snatch.
		But Dimas remained, although in the past three years he has been beset with injuries to both shoulders and a leg.
		Last night, in the two disciplines combined in the weightlifting finals, the snatch and the clean-and-jerk, Dimas lifted a total of 832 pounds, 5.5 pounds shy of the silver, 13 pounds light of tying for the gold.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040822/news_lz1x22hero.html (745 words)

	© 2004, Gannett News Service
		Pyrros Dimas is a national hero in a nation that could use one about now.
		Dimas was a god before that, for the three golds he won in the three previous Olympics, and for his unwavering devotion to his country.
		As Dimas stood on the medal stand, his face morphed from smiling to proud to tear-filled to almost melancholy.
	content.gannettonline.com /gns/olympics/20040821-50784.html (629 words)

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		Pyrros took over the Sydney gold medal at the age of 29, Kakhi was 35 at the time.
		Pyrros and Kakhi are once again wrestling with the weights at the gym.
		Pyrros and Kakhi have already begun their training and every week that passes the level of training increases.
	www.iwf.net /iwf/word_wei_ma/current_issues/022/pyrros.php (1341 words)

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		It is a fact that with his bronze Dimas became the most successful weightlifter of all times.
		Pyrros Dimas with his courageous fight and performance onstage, the five-thousand-strong crowd with their open hearts and unreserved affection in the arena of the Nikaia: together they created magic that evening.
		And Dimas deserves to be remembered this way for his greatness.
	www.iwf.net /iwf/word_wei_ma/current_issues/044/dimas.php (505 words)

	Pyrros Dimas Himara Atlanta Olympischen Spielen Sydney Athen griechisch Albanien Olympischen Spiele griechischer ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pyrros Dimas Himara Atlanta Olympischen Spielen Sydney Athen griechisch Albanien Olympischen Spiele griechischer Barcelona
		Ein Höhepunkt seiner Laufbahn sollten seine letzten Olympischen Spiele 2004 in seiner Heimat Athen werden.
		In ausverkaufter Halle lieferte der mittlerweile von zahlreichen Verletzungen geplagte Dimas einen großartigen Kampf und scheiterte bei seinem letzten Goldmedaillenversuch.
	wiki.sl.to /Upo0VEReFyUPSdUDEpCHSg%3D%3D_Pyrros_Dimas.html (161 words)

	Pyrros tries for 4th weightlifting gold, at home - Weightlifting- msnbc.com
		Pyross Dimas is going for a fourth gold medal in weightlifting at the Athens Games in a venue some feel was built specifically for him.
		Dimas vowed to not repeat Suleymanoglu’s mistake of remaining idle for year after year until the Olympics approached.
		A Dimas disappointment would be a further letdown to Greece, which learned Friday that bronze medalist Leonidas Sampanis tested positive for drugs in an initial sample.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5772452 (697 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Distant Admirers
		Every time Dimas steps up to the platform and wipes his hands in chalk, the square in Kandila grows quiet as the men grip their strings of worry beads a little tighter "Ahhh, don't sit on your butt!" cajoles one old man, fretting that Dimas will collapse under the attempted weight.
		Dimas is an old man by weightlifting standards -- he is 32 -- and despite his three previous gold medals, nobody here is getting their hopes up too high.
		She became attached to the sport as a young girl, when her father gave her a set of weights to practice on, and has always idolized Dimas for bringing glory in the sport to Greece.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A24922-2004Aug22?language=printer (1147 words)

	BBC SPORT \| OTHER SPORTS \| Dimas takes his time over victory
		Pyrros Dimas took the 85kg title in bizarre circumstance with a lift of 215kg in the clean and jerk.
		Dimas beat Germany's Marc Huster, also second to the Greek at the Atlanta Games four years ago, and George Asanidze of Georgia on lower body weight after all three lifters totalled 390kgs over the two disciplines.
		It was an achievement that saw Dimas join Turkey's Naim Suleymanoglu in weightlifting's exclusive 'hat-trick' club and become the first Greek athlete to grab three Olympic golds.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/olympics2000/other_sports/938878.stm (382 words)

	__/ Hellenic Republic - Ministry of Foreign Affairs \__
		Pyrros Dimas is one of the most significant athletes in the field of Greek sport and one of the greatest personalities in weightlifting worldwide.
		Pyrros Dimas states that he will be present in the Olympic Games of 2004.
		As far as the number of gold medals is concerned, Akakios Kakiasvillis has as many as Pyrros Dimas —but the Gold medal he won in Barcelona was with the team of Georgia in which he was a member then.
	old.mfa.gr /english/greece/today/athletics/olympionikes/profile.html (2813 words)

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		Pyrros Dimas lifts 180kg to break his own world record and win the gold medal in Atlanta.
		As a triple world and Olympic champion, Pyrros Dimas has aleady won enough medals and titles to last some people a lifetime.
		Born in southern Albania, Dimas, who is married with three children, is originally from a strong Orthodox Greek minority in the south of the country.
	www.abc.net.au /olympics/2004/profiles/pyrrosdimas.htm (448 words)

	Columns: Loud, long farewell for Greek legend
		Dimas failed in an attempt to be the first weightlifter to win gold medals in four Games, instead finishing his career with bronze.
		When it was clear the cheering would not stop, Dimas bowed his head and appeared to wipe away tears.
		When the medal ceremony was completed, Dimas jogged to the stands to kiss his wife.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/08/22/Columns/Loud__long_farewell_f.shtml (597 words)

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