Athens’ Olympic venues in ruins ten years after the games

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.

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Olympic Athletic Center of Athens. 5 July 2004 Premier projects. The Olympic Athletic Center of Athens (OAKA), is a sport facilities complex built in 1982 and refurbished for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games under a design produced by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Also known as OAKA, the complex is an articulated building system.

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The Olympic park is in the modern quarter of Marussi 10km north of the centre, it is a huge architectural complex that sums up the skills and creativity of the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.

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The Olympic Stadium in Athens "Spyros Louis" is the main stadium complex. Here were the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. The stadium underwent a complete reconstruction.

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Today, the Athens Olympic Museum at the Olympic Park holds a permanent exhibition of Olympic Games memorabilia, athletes' testimonies, and artefacts from Greek antiquity to present. The museum is also connected (through a footbridge) to the Athens Olympic Sports Centre "Spyros Louis" (OAKA), home to the 2004 Olympic Games and designed by.

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The government has announced a 43-million euro plan to transform Athens' 2004 Olympic Stadium into an "Olympic Park", which will provide training facilities for athletes as well as serve as a recreational outlet for local residents. Announcing the plans at a special event in the stadium on Tuesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.

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The Olympic Athletic Center of Athens, also known as OAKA, is one of the most complete European athletic complexes.The Main Olympic Stadium was designed in 1979 and inaugurated in 1982 at the 13th European Athletics Championship. The following years a number of other sport facilities surrounded the Main Olympic Stadium: the Olympic Velodrome (inaugurated in 1991), the Olympic Aquatics Center.

Athens' Olympic Games venues lie abandoned and left to decay, ten years after spending over £7bn

Athletes and sports fans from all over the world will soon focus their attention on Athens, Greece—host city for the 2004 Summer. the XXVIII Olympiad returned home to Greece on July 9, 2004. The Olympic flame will reach its final destination at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex on the evening of August 13 as part of the games' Opening.

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Welcome to the modern ark of Olympism in Greece: The Museum that hosts the authentic spirit of the Olympic Games and the unimpaired values of Olympic Education from its birth to date.

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The Olympic Sports Complex. Photograph: Yannis Kolesidis/EPA The Schinias Centre in Marathon that hosted the rowing and canoeing competitions. Photograph: Yannis Kolesidis/EPA An abandoned.

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Athens’ Olympic venues in ruins ten years after the games

272. Spyrosdrakopoulos (cc by-sa 3.0) Originally built in the early 1980s, the renamed Athens Olympic Sports Complex (OAKA) received it's biggest renovation for the 2004 summer Olympics by famed.

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ATHENS, Greece (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" — and it is where visiting Olympic officials planted an olive sapling that would bear their names for posterity.

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Eight years after hosting the Games and as Greece prepares to light the flame ahead of London 2012 in Olympia, Athens's Olympic park, once billed as one of the most complete European.