Athens 2004 Olympic Games

AP - Greek prosecutors have brought criminal mismanagement charges against a former official responsible for the post-Olympic use of costly venues that languished for years after the 2004 Athens Games. Constantinos Matalas, who headed the now-defunct state-run Olympic Properties SA...

Ten years after hosting the Olympic Games, Greece is in the spotlight again, Euronews reports. While some believe that Athens benefitted from the Games, images from Hellinikon seem to tell a different side of the story. In contrast to the splendour seen in...

AP - In an obscure corner of a park sits a forlorn reminder that, 10 years ago, Athens hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics. The crumbling miniature theater is inscribed with the words "glory, wealth, wisdom, victory, triumph, hero, labor"...

On July 4th 2004, Greece's National Football Team achieved perhaps the most astonishing victory, not only in the history of football, but in the history of sports in general. They beat the tournament's hosts, Portugal, by 1-0 and won the European...

The Greek privatization fund TAIPED (Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund) is to undertake the sale of the disused Olympic facilities in Athens, construction of which cost more than 577 million euros. The total cost of the construction was based on data from Greece’s...

 Ten years after the 2004 Summer Olympics, Athens' Olympic Venues are now falling apart even though Greece spent approximately 15 million dollars for the once-gleaming locales. Today, nobody seems to care about the condition of these places. Unlike the 1984...

The Olympic Stadium roof of the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens (OAKA), designed by the famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava for the 2004 Olympic Games, has gone neglected and needs at least 130 million euros ($172.6 million) of urgent...

An arbitrator has ruled that Greece must pay an American company 40 million euros ($52.2 million) for supplying security systems for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, rejecting the country's claim it never officially accepted delivery of the system...

Gianna Angelopoulos' interview on the occasion of her book , My Greek Drama, which is best seller in the U.S.A and is sold translated in Greek as well, was not limited only to the Olympic Games in 2004, but...

In her biography My Greek Drama,  the woman who led the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki took shots at politicians whose paths crossed hers during that contentious time. She said the book is "a...