Its amazing that after all that expectation we are nearing the completion of the games and we have to talk about the closing ceremony.
Tomorrow is the end of the games and the organizing commitee has created a closing ceremony for the Athens Olympics that is meant to show to the rest of the world the way that Greeks enjoy themselves. It will be done in the spirit of a Greek 'γλεντι' and will involve folk Greek music but also modern singers and musicians in a feast of singing and dancing that I am sure many people who will be there will remember for a long time.
Women
ITA
GRE
USA
Women Under 49 Kg
Shih Hsin Chen TPE
Yanelis Yuliet Labrada Diaz CUB
Yaowapa Boorapolchai THA
Women
GER
NED
ARG
Women 3m Springboard
Jingjing Guo CHN
Minxia Wu CHN
Yulia Pakhalina RUS
49er
Martinez / Fernandez ESP
Luka / Leonchuk UKR
Draper / Hiscocks GBR
Men Greco-Roman - 84-96kg
Karam Ibrahim EGY
Ramaz Nozadze GEO
Mehmet Ozal TUR
Men Greco-Roman - 66-74kg
Alexandr Dokturishivili UZB
Marko Yli-Hannuksela FIN
Varteres Samourgachev RUS
Men Greco-Roman - 55-60kg
Ji Hyun Jung KOR
Roberto Monzon CUB
Armen Nazarian BUL
Men Individual
Hamish Carter NZL
Bevan Docherty NZL
Sven Riederer SUI
Men Long Jump
Dwight Phillips USA
John Moffitt USA
Joan Lino Martinez ESP
Men 400m Hurdles
Felix Sanchez DOM
Danny McFarlane JAM
Naman Keita FRA
Men Under 58 Kg
Mu Yen Chu TPE
Oscar Francisco Salazar Blanco MEX
Tamer Bayoumi EGY
Women
Kate Allen AUT
Loretta Harrop AUS
Susan Williams USA
Women 400m Hurdles
Fani Halkia GRE
Ionela Tirlea-Manolache ROM
Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova UKR
Women 200m
Veronica Campbell JAM
Allyson Felix USA
Debbie Ferguson BAH
Women Duet
Davydova / Ermakova RUS
Tachibana / Takeda JPN
Bartosik / Kozlova USA
Women Mistral (board)
Faustine Merret FRA
Jian Yin CHN
Alessandra Sensini ITA
Women Track - Points Race
Olga Slyusareva RUS
Belem Guerrero Mendez MEX
Maria Luisa Calle Williams COL
Dressage - Individual
Anky van Grunsven (Salinero) NED
Ulla Salzgeber (Rusty) GER
Beatriz Ferrer-Salat (Beauvalais) ESP
Men Greco-Roman - Under 55kg
Istvan Majoros HUN
Gueidar Mamedaliev RUS
Artiom Kiouregkian GRE
Men Greco-Roman - 96-120kg
Khasan Baroev RUS
Georgiy Tsurtsumia KAZ
Rulon Gardner USA
Men Greco-Roman - 74-84kg
Alexei Michine RUS
Ara Abrahamian SWE
Viachaslau Makaranka BLR
Men Greco-Roman - 74-84kg
Alexei Michine RUS
Ara Abrahamian SWE
Viachaslau Makaranka BLR
Men Greco-Roman - 60-66kg
Farid Mansurov AZE
Seref Eroglu TUR
Mkkhitar Manukyan KAZ
Men Over 105kg
Hossein Reza Zadeh IRI
Viktors Scerbatihs LAT
Velichko Cholakov BUL
Men Mistral (board)
Gal Fridman ISR
Nikolaos Kaklamanakis GRE
Nick Dempsey GBR
Men Track - Madison
Brown / O'Grady AUS
Marvulli / Risi SUI
Hayles / Wiggins GBR
Men
Rego / Santos
BRA
Bosma / Herrera
ESP
Heuscher / Kobel
SUI
Here is a very interesting article on the Athens Olympics in the Economist:
Greeks bearing games
Aug 18th 2004
From The Economist Global Agenda
The organisers of the Athens Olympics confounded the sceptics by completing their preparations on time. Now all they have to worry about is terrorists and drug-fuelled athletes
EPA
FIRST the good news. Despite all those gloomy predictions that Athens was not up to hosting the 28th summer Olympics—or perhaps because of them—the Greeks somehow managed to get everything ready on time. The stadiums, pool and scores of other facilities all look somewhere between presentable and stunning (if you can forget the odd missing roof). Ticket sales, worryingly slow last month, have picked up sharply, and organisers are confident of reaching their target of 5.2m. Not even the latest corruption scandal involving the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in which a Bulgarian member was suspended after being hit by bribery accusations, could darken the mood in the run-up to the opening ceremony on Friday August 13th.
So all is set fair for the Olympics’ return to the country that conceived the ancient games—and revived them 108 years ago. Or is it? Two issues remain a worry, each of them serious enough to wreck the event: security and performance-enhancing drugs.
The safety of those attending the games has long been cause for concern. In Munich in 1972, Palestinian militants killed 11 Israeli competitors; in 1996, a bomb planted in Atlanta’s Olympic park killed one bystander and injured more than 100. But since the September 11th 2001 attacks, global sporting events have become an even more inviting target for terrorists. The response of those organising the first summer games since those attacks has been to launch the biggest security operation in peacetime Europe. The arrangements in Athens include: a 70,000-strong security force; an airship packed with surveillance equipment; and gizmo-filled aircraft and ships, courtesy of NATO, which is also providing chemical, biological and nuclear response units. Oh, and Patriot missiles have been deployed around the Greek capital.
Just in case all that hardware is not enough reassurance, officials have been queuing up to offer comforting words. “Greece is the most secure country in the world,” said the deputy defence minister, Ioannis Lampropoulos, perhaps rashly. In a show of confidence, President George Bush is sending his parents and daughters to the games. International intelligence agencies say they have not picked up any terrorist “chatter” about an attack. Nevertheless, nerves have been jangled by some glaring security lapses: for instance, plans to check the backgrounds of contractors and volunteers were reportedly dropped because organisers ran out of time.
All the extra security comes at a high price. In 1997, when Athens won the bid for this summer’s games, the security costs were estimated to be just a thin slice of the overall budget. But the bill has risen to more than €1 billion ($1.2 billion), more than three times the amount spent in Sydney in 2000; and the total cost of staging the games could top €6 billion. This steep rise may discourage cities from bidding to host the games in future.
Though financial disasters like the 1976 Montreal games are now rare, few Olympics manage to turn a profit. The exceptions, like Los Angeles in 1984, do so by not building many new facilities. The Olympics’ supporters argue that, even if they make a loss, the wider boost the games bring is worth it. The evidence for this is shaky. Robert Baade, an economist at Chicago's Lake Forest College, looked at the perceived benefits of a successful Olympics like Sydney and found that they tend to be offset by the number of tourists who stay away. He also concluded that increased economic activity in the host city comes at the rest of the country’s expense. Add in fast-rising security costs and the economics look even wobblier.
Catching the cheats
Even if the huge cost of keeping Athens safe is deemed to be money well spent, the vexed issue of performance-boosting drugs might yet ensure that the games are remembered less for “the joy found in effort”, as Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, put it, than for “doping” scandals.
The past year or so has seen plenty of such scandals. In June 2003, a syringe containing a hitherto unknown and undetectable steroid, tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), was sent to America’s anti-doping agency, apparently by a disaffected coach. Speedily designed tests showed that use of THG had been widespread among top athletes. Drug scandals have also rocked tennis, football, cycling, ice hockey and cricket. These have fostered a climate of suspicion, in which almost every record-breaking achievement is questioned.
In the week leading up to the Athens games, several competitors were caught out by drug tests and sent home—and this week two of Greece's star sprinters pulled out after missing a scheduled drugs test. The IOC claims this shows that the cheats are being weeded out before the games begin. But others fear the embarrassing prospect of a substantial number of athletes being found out only after they have won medals, and thus being stripped of them—as happened to Ben Johnson after he won the 100m gold in Seoul in 1988.
Dick Pound, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), regards the Athens Olympics as a potential turning point in the war against doping, and he thinks he has the drug cheats on the run. Certainly, WADA today is no longer the weakling it seemed to be at the Sydney Olympics. It has since come up with many new tests. For instance, samples collected in Athens will be subject to new tests for human growth hormone, used by athletes to stimulate muscle growth. And testing of blood samples has been extended to all Olympic sports for the first time—previously, it had been limited to endurance sports.
More crucially, in order to take part in Athens, the world governing body of each sport in the games has had to sign up to the world anti-doping code, agreed in 2003 (though some are still trying to attach caveats). This created, among other things, a single list of banned substances, a standard set of sanctions for offenders and a dispute-resolution mechanism through the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Despite all these efforts, some, including The Economist (see article), argue that driving drugs out of sport may prove impossible, especially as undetectable gene therapies could soon be on the market. Some also question whether it is really so obvious that doping is wrong. Perhaps it would be better to let each sport set its own standards of behaviour rather than have a single global body try to stamp out performance drugs with blanket rules.
However this debate unfolds, the Athens Olympics will be a crucial battle in sport’s war on drugs. They will also be a milestone in the war on terror. And they might even, with luck, be a lot of fun.
Men Greco-Roman - 74-84kg
Alexei Michine RUS
Ara Abrahamian SWE
Viachaslau Makaranka BLR
Men 94-105kg
Dmitry Berestov RUS
Ferenc Gyurkovics HUN
Igor Razoronov UKR
Women 100m Hurdles
Joanna Hayes USA
Olena Krasovska UKR
Melissa Morrison USA
Women 400m
Tonique Williams-Darling BAH
Ana Guevara MEX
Natalya Antyukh RUS
Women Pole Vault
Yelena Isinbayeva RUS
Svetlana Feofanova RUS
Anna Rogowska POL
Track & Field - Men
3000m Steeplechase
Ezekiel Kemboi KEN
Brimin Kipruto KEN
Paul Kipsiele Koech KEN
Men 1500m
Hicham El Guerrouj MAR
Bernard Lagat KEN
Rui Silva POR
Men 3m Springboard
Bo Peng CHN
Alexandre Despatie CAN
Dmitri Sautin RUS
Women Track - Sprint
Lori-Ann Muenzer CAN
Tamilla Abassova RUS
Anna Meares AUS
Men Track - Sprint
Ryan Bayley AUS
Theo Bos NED
Rene Wolff GER
Men Track - Points Race
Mikhail Ignatyev RUS
Joan Llaneras ESP
Guido Fulst GER
Women 48-55kg
Saori Yoshida JPN
Tonya Verbeek CAN
Anna Gomis FRA
Women 63-72kg
Xu Wang CHN
Gouzel Maniourova RUS
Kyoko Hamaguchi JPN
Women Under 48kg
Irini Merleni UKR
Chiharu Icho JPN
Patricia Miranda USA
Men 85-94kg
Milen Dobrev BUL
Khadjimourad Akkaev RUS
Eduard Tjukin RUS
Women Triple Jump
Francoise Mbango Etone CMR
Hrysopiyi Devetzi GRE
Tatyana Lebedeva RUS
Women 5000m
Meseret Defar ETH
Isabella Ochichi KEN
Tirunesh Dibaba ETH
Women 800m
Kelly Holmes GBR
Hasna Benhassi MAR
Jolanda Ceplak SLO
Women 20km Race Walk
Athanasia Tsoumeleka GRE
Olimpiada Ivanova RUS
Jane Saville AUS
Men Discus Throw
Robert Fazekas HUN
Virgilijus Alekna LTU
Zoltan Kovago HUN
Men Singles
Seung Min Ryu KOR
Hao Wang CHN
Liqin Wang CHN
Women Floor Exercise
Catalina Ponor ROM
Nicoleta Daniela Sofronie ROM
Patricia Moreno ESP
Women Balance Beam
Catalina Ponor ROM
Carly Patterson USA
Alexandra Georgiana Eremia ROM
Men Parallel Bars
Valeri Goncharov UKR
Hiroyuki Tomita JPN
Xiaopeng Li CHN
Men Horizontal Bar
Igor Cassina ITA
Paul Hamm USA
Isao Yoneda JPN
Men / Track - Team Pursuit
Brown / Lancaster / McGee / Roberts
AUS
Cummings / Hayles / Manning / Wiggins
GBR
Castano / Escobar / Maeztu / Torrent
ESP
Concerning the events in the women Marathon and Paula Radcliff here is the full story:
Crying shame for Radcliffe as marathon dream dies in heat
By Mike Rowbottom in Athens
23 August 2004
Paula Radcliffe's entrance to the Panathinaiko Stadium was not supposed to have been like this. For four years the woman who represented British athletics' only likely chance of winning a gold medal at these Games has dreamed of setting the final garland on an honour-strewn career by running into the birthplace of the Modern Games as Olympic marathon champion.
Last night she made her arrival by ambulance after staggering to a halt less than four miles from the finish after slipping back to fourth place the same bitter position she ended up in at the last Olympics, in the 10,000 metres.
Confused and weeping, she was escorted to the medical centre wrapped in a foil blanket which, ironically, was intended to prevent her dehydrated body losing any more heat at the end of a brutal race along the hallowed course from Marathon, which had began in temperatures above 100 degrees.
By way of a final, tragi-comic indignity, she was obliged to pass through the x-ray security barrier before being allowed to make her dazed way down the deep tunnel that leads to the stadium medical centre.
Had the machine been able to interpret interior emotions it would have registered a maelstrom of frustration, despair and misery in a woman who has, in the space of the last two years, reshaped her event.
Her only verbal comment was predictably desolate: "I am devastated. I can't say any more."
No other woman has run within three minutes of the world record she set in London last year, but the 30-year-old Bedford runner knew that the searing conditions, and a course that contained not one but two brutal hills the latter rising 650 feet over eight miles would mean this event was a completely different proposition to the big city marathons where she has established her dominance.
It was still not clear after a race won by Japan's Mizuki Noguchi in 2hr 26min 20sec, more than 10 minutes slower than Radcliffe's world record of 2:15.25, whether Radcliffe had been affected by the calf problem which surfaced last month and prevented her running in the Crystal Palace grand prix on 30 July.
What did seem evident was that, even in the early stages, Radcliffe flushed, and nodding her head in that characteristic accompaniment to maximum effort was finding the conditions punishingly tough. She nevertheless remained in the leading group of seven as they reached the halfway point in 1:14.02, in the early stages of the grinding climb between 11 and 19 miles.
It was there that the Japanese runner, last year's world silver medallist, made her break after being escorted to the crucial point by both her teammates. Elfenesh Alemu responded, and Radcliffe dug in to try and hold on to a medal position, briefly overtaking the Ethiopian. But soon Catherine Ndereba, the woman whose world record Radcliffe surpassed in 2002, had put her back in bronze medal place.
It was at the point where Alemu came past her once again that something seemed to break inside the British runner.
Alongside the red 36km marker, she slowed to a halt, putting her hand to her head, her face a mask of misery and exhaustion. Twice she made faltering attempts to restart, responding to some deep and futile instinct.
On the first occasion, she stopped to hang on to a barrier; on the second she finally accepted her fate before slumping inconsolably at the roadside.
Like that other British marathon runner who had gone into the Olympics as a world record holder, Jim Peters, Radcliffe had discovered the cruel truth that everything is different when it comes to the Games. Peters failed to finish at the 1952 Games after being passed by the eventual winner, Emil Zatopek. And after all the iced baths, and the 160-mile-a-week training runs, and the special circulation-stimulating socks, and the frozen vests, and the monastic training regimes in Font Romeu and latterly southern Spain of eat, run, sleep, eat, run, sleep, the finest female marathon runner was ultimately vulnerable.
As she sat distraught by the verge Radcliffe turned to look at the television camera which was, inevitably, looking right back at her. The world was watching as she reacquainted herself with the persona she thought her long string of victories on track and road had banished that of the gallant British loser.
Noguchi was followed by Ndereba on to the dark, narrow track looped inside the marble steps of the stadium that hosted the 1896 Games. The Kenyan had appeared to struggle in the early stages but eventually clocked 2:26.32. "The conditions were tough," she said. "But God was with me."
Bronze went to Deena Kastor, of the United States, who overtook Alemu on the approach to the stadium and finished in 2:27.20.
Tracey Morris, who earned an Olympic appearance by cutting an hour off her personal best at the last London Marathon, achieved her own more realistic ambition of lasting the course. She finished in 29th place with a time of 2:41.00, four places behind Britain's third runner Liz Yelling, who clocked 2:40.13.
Morris was a relieved figure at the end, having recovered from a back injury which had put her participation in doubt. "Just a few weeks ago I didn't know whether I would make it," said the woman who works for a Leeds optician. "I was delighted to have finished. It was an amazing experience."
That it was, for deeply differing reasons.
Source: Independent
Women Track - Individual Pursuit
Sarah Ulmer NZL
Katie Mactier AUS
Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel NED
Women Europe
Siren Sundby NOR
Lenka Smidova CZE
Signe Livbjerg DEN
Women Singles
Yining Zhang CHN
Hyang Mi Kim PRK
Kyung Ah Kim KOR
Women Doubles
Li / Sun CHN
Martinez / Ruano Pascual ESP
Suarez / Tarabini ARG
Mixed Laser
Robert Scheidt BRA
Andreas Geritzer AUT
Vasilij Zbogar SLO
Women Marathon
Mizuki Noguchi JPN
Catherine Ndereba KEN
Deena Kastor USA
Men Triple Jump
Christian Olsson SWE
Marian Oprea ROM
Danila Burkenya RUS
Men High Jump
Stefan Holm SWE
Matt Hemingway USA
Jaroslav Baba CZE
Men Hammer Throw
Adrian Annus HUN
Koji Murofushi JPN
Ivan Tikhon BLR
Men 100m
Justin Gatlin USA
Francis Obikwelu POR
Maurice Greene USA
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Men Singles
Nicolas Massu CHI
Mardy Fish USA
Fernando Gonzalez CHI
Men Skeet (125 Targets)
Andrea Benelli ITA
Marko Kemppainen FIN
Juan Miguel Rodriguez CUB
Men 50m Free Rifle 3 Positions (3x40 Shots)
Zhanbo Jia CHN
Michael Anti USA
Christian Planer AUT
Women Double Sculls
Burcica / Alupei ROM
Reimer / Blasberg GER
van Der Kolk / van Eupen NED
Women Eight With Coxswain
Florea / Susanu / Barascu / Papuc / Gafencu / Lipa / Damian / Ignat / Georgescu
ROM
Johnson / Magee / Dirkmaat / Cox / Mickelson / Korholz / Davies / Nelson / Whipple
USA
Wegman / Smulders / Hommes / Dekkers / van Rumpt / de Haan / Siegelaar / Tanger / Workel
NED
Women Quadruple Sculls Without Coxswain
Boron / Evers / Lutze / El Qalqili
GER
Mowbray / Flood / Houghton / Romero
GBR
Morozova / Kolesnikova / Olefirenko / Dementyeva
UKR
Men Quadruple Sculls Without Coxswain
Fedorovtsev / Kravtsov / Svirin / Spinev
RUS
Kopriva / Karas / Hanak / Jirka
CZE
Grin / Bilushchenko / Lykov / Shaposhnikov
UKR
Men
Four Without Coxswain
Kristensen / Ebert / Moelvig / Ebbesen
DEN
Loftus / Edwards / Cureton / Burgess
AUS
Bertini / Amarante / Amitrano / Mascarenhas
ITA
Men Eight With Coxswain
Read / Allen / Ahrens / Hansen / Deakin / Beery / Hoopman / Volpenhein / Cipollone
USA
Simon / Vermeulen / Gabriels / Mensch / Derksen / Eggenkamp / Vellenga / Bartman / Cheung
NED
Szczurowski / Reside / Welch / Stewart / Stewart / Hanson / McKay / Stewart / Toon
AUS
Men Double Sculls
Kucharski / Sycz POL
Dufour / Touron FRA
Polymeros / Skiathitis GRE
Women Horse Vault
Monica Rosu ROM
Annia Hatch USA
Anna Pavlova RUS
Women Asymmetric Bars
Emilie Lepennec FRA
Terin Humphrey USA
Courtney Kupets USA
Men Rings
Dimosthenis Tampakos
GRE
Jordan Jovtchev BUL
Yuri Chechi ITA
Men Pommel Horse
Haibin Teng CHN
Marius Daniel Urzica ROM
Takehiro Kashima JPN
Men Floor Exercise
Kyle Shewfelt CAN
Marian Dragulescu ROM
Jordan Jovtchev BUL
Men Floor Exercise
Kyle Shewfelt CAN
Marian Dragulescu ROM
Jordan Jovtchev BUL
Men Team Epee
Boisse / Jeannet / Jeannet / Obry
FRA
Boczko / Imre / Kovacs / Kulcsar
HUN
Fiedler / Schmid / Strigel
GER
Come on guys... This is absolutely F***ing stupid. Who would have such a MORONIC policy on hyperlinking to the Athens Olympics website?! (hay I just broke the rules... isnt this fun?) (That requests sending letters to get permissions just to link to your #$%*&ing site?)
Guys, welcome to 2004. I know you're still stuck back in 1896...
The Internet and Special Securities and Analysis of Hyperlinks and Fidgety Things That Blink On The Screen Department of the Athens Olympics Weblog
I am actually a bit annoyed by the official Athens Olympics website. I am sure that the whole project cost quite a few hundreds of thousands of $ yet it has managed to fail in being 'cool' and provide immediate information to people. Of course you can subscribe to a mass of news from the Olympics (after you give a ton of information and agree to a page of terms of use which I am sure that nobody reads) but hey... wellcome to 2004 guys (Olympic year, remember that?).
RSS would have been such an excellent solution for bringing immediate information on the Olympics. Just imagine, each sport would have its own RSS feed and you could have had a few centralized RSS feeds for general Olympics information, press information or whatever else. What would have been more ideal for getting information on medals, results, schedules within seconds to millions of people.
I am sorry that we only offer you one feed here in this weblog with just the medal results but I am afraid we are only doing this in our spare time and only beacuse we believed that there were massive gaps in the knowledge management of the Olympics.
Women Skeet (75 Targets)
Diana Igaly HUN
Ning Wei CHN
Zemfira Meftakhetdinova AZE
Women 100m Free
Jodie Henry AUS
Inge de Bruijn NED
Natalie Coughlin USA
Women 200m Breast
Amanda Beard USA
Leisel Jones AUS
Anne Poleska GER
Men 200m Medley
Michael Phelps USA
Ryan Lochte USA
George Bovell TRI
Men 200m Back
Aaron Peirsol USA
Markus Rogan AUT
Razvan Florea ROM
Men 10m Running Target (30+30 Shots)
Manfred Kurzer GER
Alexander Blinov RUS
Dimitri Lykin RUS
Women 63-69kg
Chunhong Liu CHN
Eszter Krutzler HUN
Zarema Kasaeva RUS
Men 69-77kg
Taner Sagir TUR
Sergey Filimonov KAZ
Oleg Perepetchenov RUS
Men 90-100kg
Ihar Makarau BLR
Sung Ho Jang KOR
Michael Jurack GER / Ariel Zeevi ISR
Men Individual Saber
Pillet / Touya / Touya
FRA
Montano / Pastore / Tarantino
ITA
Charikov / Diatchenko / Pozdniakov / Yakimenko
RUS
Women Individual All-round
Carly Patterson USA
Svetlana Khorkina RUS
Nan Zhang CHN
Women Singles
Ning Zhang CHN
Mia Audina NED
Mi Zhou CHN
Men
Individual (70m)
Marco Galiazzo ITA
Hiroshi Yamamoto JPN
Tim Cuddihy AUS
Our weblog yesterday got 1800 unique visitors from people looking for Olympic results and information about the olympics. I am glad we have reached such a number (which is more than I thought we would ever had) and we hope that you will still find information that you need here.
Let us know of any information on the Athens Olympics we can provide for you.
Women 200m Butterfly
Otylia Jedrzejczak POL
Petria Thomas AUS
Yuko Nakanishi JPN
Women 4x200m Free
Coughlin / Piper / Vollmer / Sandeno
USA
Zhu / Xu / Yang / Pang
CHN
van Almsick / Dallmann / Buschschulte / Stockbauer
GER
Women Individual Foil
Valentina Vezzali ITA
Giovanna Trillini ITA
Sylwia Gruchala POL
Women Road - Individual Time Trial
Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel NED
Deirdre Demet-Barry USA
Karin Thuerig SUI
Women Slalom - K-1
Elena Kaliska SVK
Rebecca Giddens USA
Helen Reeves GBR
Men Slalom - C-1
Tony Estanguet FRA
Michal Martikan SVK
Stefan Pfannmoeller GER
Men Road - Individual Time Trial
Tyler Hamilton USA
Viatcheslav Ekimov RUS
Bobby Julich USA
Men Individual All-round
Paul Hamm USA
Dae Eun Kim KOR
Tae Young Yang KOR
Men 81-90kg
Zurab Zviadauri GEO
Hiroshi Izumi JPN
Khasanbi Taov RUS / Mark Huizinga NED
Men 100m Free
Pieter van den Hoogenband NED
Roland Mark Schoeman RSA
Ian Thorpe AUS
Men 200m Breast
Kosuke Kitajima JPN
Daniel Gyurta HUN
Brendan Hansen USA
Women 58-63kg
Nataliya Skakun UKR
Hanna Batsiushka BLR
Tatsiana Stukalava BLR
Men 62-69kg
Guozheng Zhang CHN
Bae Young Lee KOR
Nikolay Pechalov CRO
Men Shot Put
Yuriy Bilonog UKR
Adam Nelson USA
Joachim Olsen DEN
Women Shot Put
Irina Korzhanenko RUS
Yumileidi Cumba CUB
Nadine Kleinert GER
The scandal of the refusal of Greece's sprinters Kenteris and Thanou to take a doping test last week ended today with their 'refusal' to take part in the Olympic games. This happened during the hearing by the Olympic comittee that finbally decided to send the matter to IAAF.
Both Kenteris and Thanou were in KAT hospital till yesterday after a motorbike accident (of which many things have been said).
It is so unfortunate when you see crowd heros fall like this.
Lets change the spirit a bit and include a link to a FANTASTIC flash animation on the Olympics by one of my favourite cartoonists Brunno Bozetto.
Enjoy!
Women 200m Medley
Yana Klochkova UKR
Amanda Beard USA
Kirsty Coventry ZIM
Women 57-63kg
Ayumi Tanimoto JPN
Claudia Heill AUT
Urska Zolnir SLO / Driulys Gonzalez CUB
Women
Individual Saber
Mariel Zagunis USA
Sada Jacobson USA
Xue Tan CHN
Women
Team Competition
Ban / Eremia / Ponor / Rosu / Sofronie / Stroescu
ROM
Bhardwaj / Hatch / Humphrey / Kupets / McCool / Patterson
USA
Ezhova / Khorkina / Krioutchkova / Pavlova / Zamolodchikova / Ziganchina
RUS
Men 200m Butterfly
Michael Phelps USA
Takashi Yamamoto JPN
Stephen Parry GBR
Men 4x200m Free
Keller / Vanderkaay / Phelps / Lochte
USA
Thorpe / Sprenger / Klim / Hackett
AUS
Rosolino / Cercato / Brembilla / Magnini
ITA
Men Double Trap (150 Targets)
Ahmed Almaktoum UAE
Rajyavardhan S. Rathore IND
Zheng Wang CHN
Women 200m Free
Camelia Potec ROM
Federica Pellegrini ITA
Solenne Figues FRA
Men 50m Free Pistol (60 Shots)
Mikhail Nestruev RUS
Jong Oh Jin KOR
Jong Su Kim PRK
Men 73-81kg
Ilias Iliadis
GRE
Roman Gontyuk
UKR
Dmitri Nossov RUS / Flavio Canto BRA
Men Individual Epee
Marcel Fischer SUI
Lei Wang CHN
Pavel Kolobkov RUS
Men Individual Epee
Marcel Fischer SUI
Lei Wang CHN
Pavel Kolobkov RUS
Men 56-62kg
Zhiyong Shi CHN
Maosheng Le CHN
Leonidas Sampanis GRE
Men 200m Free
Ian Thorpe AUS
Pieter van den Hoogenband NED
Michael Phelps USA
Women 100m Breast
Xuejuan Luo CHN
Brooke Hanson AUS
Leisel Jones AUS
Women 53-58kg
Yanqing Chen CHN
Song Hui Ri PRK
Wandee Kameaim THA
Women
100m Back
Natalie Coughlin USA
Kirsty Coventry ZIM
Laure Manaudou FRA
Women
Trap (75 Targets)
Suzanne Balogh AUS
Maria Quintanal ESP
Bo Na Lee KOR
Team Competition
Kashima / Mizutori / Nakano / Tomita / Tsukahara / Yoneda
JPN
Gatson / Hamm / Hamm / McClure / Wilson / Young
USA
Dragulescu / Popescu / Potra / Selariu / Suciu / Urzica
ROM
Women 52-57kg
Yvonne Boenisch GER
Sun Hui Kye PRK
Deborah Gravenstijn NED / Yurisleidy Lupetey CUB
Synchronized Diving 10m Platform Women
Lao / Li CHN
Goncharova / Koltunova RUS
Hartley / Heymans CAN
Individual Foil
Brice Guyart FRA
Salvatore Sanzo ITA
Andrea Cassara ITA
Synchronized Diving 3m Springboard
Siranidis / Bimis GRE
Wels / Schellenberg GER
Newbery / Barnett AUS
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Men's Footbal: Greece - Korea 2-2
I just cant believe that we are about 30 hours away from the opening ceremony.
The Olympics actually started yesterday with the Olympic footbal tournament (and a bit of havoc caused in the media due to a 20 minutes cut in the TV signal from the stadium during the Greece-Koream match...).
The Grand rehearsal of the Athens Olympics Opening Ceremony happened yesterday. We were lucky enough to watch the rehearsal that lasted for more than three hours and to really enjoy what we saw.
You will be happy to hear that there are no hordes of dancers and old fashioned type parades. Even the entrance of the athletes is done with the background of modern 'techno type' music.
The most amazing event of the night was the lighting of the Olympic circles by a comet that sent the crowds in cheers. However, we didn't see the last ten minutes of the actual ceremony which are kept a secret and will be shown only on Friday (so maybe something more spectacular will happen).
Oh, and by the way, Bjork is fantastic!
I also have to say that the ceremony is probably more a TV show than a stadium show. TV audiences world wide will love it...
Would you believe it.. It is just 7 days left to the olympics.
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