Athens’ Olympic venues in ruins ten years after the games
The Olympic Athletic Center of Athens has hosted the Mediterranean Games in 1991, the World Championship in Athletics in 1997 as well as other important athletic and cultural events. The most significant event the Athens Olympic Sports Complex has hosted, was the Olympic Games. OACA was the main venue for the Athens Olympic Games in 2004.
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Athens was chosen as the first host of what was to become the modern Olympic Games. Evangelos Zappas and his cousin Konstantinos Zappas had left the Greek government a trust to fund future Olympic Games. This was used to partly fund the 1896 Athens Olympic Games at the Panathenaic Stadium.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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The Athens Olympic Park (formerly known as Olympic Athletic Center of Athens "Spiros Louis" (Greek: Ολυμπιακό Αθλητικό Κέντρο Αθηνών "Σπύρος Λούης" or OAKA), is a sport facilities complex located at Marousi, northeast Athens, Greece. The complex consists of five major venues as well as other supplementary sport facilities. Subscribe for more walking.
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The return of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to Greece was received with great excitement around the world, however, there was also great anxiety because the existing facilities was far from adequate and the city lacked experience with constructing such large-scale projects.. The Athens Olympic Sports Complex was comprised of 199,000.
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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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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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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.
Athens’ Olympic venues in ruins ten years after the games
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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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.