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[donganos]

[Pi7]

Γεια σας,
Το σάββατο είχε ένα άρθρο στην "L'Έquipe" για τους πρώτους γάλλους αθλητές που έφθασαν Αθηνα. οι εντυπώσεις ήταν άριστες, τους άρεσε πολύ το Ολυμπιακό Χωριο και η οργάνωση. Το μονο "αρνητικό" σημείωνε χαριτολογώντας, ήταν ένας ταξιτζής που έκανε 1Η45' από Φάληρο ως το Ολυμπιακό Χωριο, αντί 35' που περίμεναν οι γάλλοι. Και η δικαιολογία του: δεν ήταν συνηθισμένος σε αυτό το δρομολόγιο

[GEORGE]

οι ταριφες ειναι ικανοι να τα χαλασουν ολα

[woofy]

Apo to Reuters:



People line up outside an Olympic ticket box office located next to Panathinaiko stadium to purchase tickets for the upcoming Athens' Olympiad August 2, 2004. Athens Games organisers said all tickets for the Opening and Closing ceremonies went on sale today were sold just a few minutes after the ticket box offices opened early this morning. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis

[korandy]

simera sto METRO (periodiko pou dianemetai dwrean ka8e mera sto metro tou Londinou) eixe to teleutaio afierwma stis proetoimasies twn olumpiakwn, filoxenwntas kai sunenteuxi tis Fanis.. Polu 8etiko to article. Se mia fwtografia pou eixe tou stadiou fainotan ka8ara gemato nero..!

[ZORBAS]

Ela file, to diabasa to metro shmera kai eida tis photographies. H photo me to nero pou les einai i idia pou mas eixe dwsei o Giannis prin merikes meres se xamili analysi, opou fainotane san na einai to stadio gemato nero. Loipon sto metro htan se kalh analysh kai tin 3exwrisa amesws! Einai mia apo tis palies tou Getty apo to test event ton Iounio. Exei trabixtei apo xamhla me fonto to nero sto xantaki tou stibou (den thymame se pio agvnisma akribws) kai kanei antanaklash h stegh. Ek prwths opsews fainetai pws exei nero mesa sto stadio, alla an prose3eis kala tha deis pws einai apla mia poly e3ypnh photografia afou exei kai kosmo sto petalo pou parakolouthei...

[korandy]

mallon exeis dikio zorba! apla apo ton en8ousiasmo den prosexa leptomereies.... trelainomai kai paw!

[Argyris]

Ρε παιδες, σε λιγο θα γινουμε και διασημοι με τα κατωρθωματα μας!!!
Μονο που δεν αναφερει τιποτα για εμας!!

http://www.sportime.gr/html/ent/138/ent.30138.asp
"Απέσυρε κείμενο το NBC

Τα κείμενα που ανέφεραν συσχετισμό της ολυμπιακής παράδοσης της ΠΓΔΜ με τις διακρίσεις του βασιλιά Φιλίππου του Β' της Μακεδονίας στους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες της αρχαιότητας απέσυρε το αμερικανικό τηλεοπτικό δίκτυο NBC που έχει και τα δικαιώματα της προβολής των Αγώνων στις ΗΠΑ.
Η αντίδραση της ελληνικής πλευράς ήταν έντονη και άμεση. Μάλιστα η πρεσβεία της Ελλάδας στην Ουάσιγκτον μέσω του γραφείου Τύπου της κατέθεσε αίτημα με συνοδευτική επιστολή στους αρμοδίους του NBC και έτσι απέσυραν το επίμαχο κομμάτι."

[madrix]

Akoma ena kolakeftiko ar8ro...den kseroun pws na paroun pisw ola afta ta esxra pou exoun pei sto parel8on..

To pio xaraktiristiko tou ar8rou ine otan o afstralos adiprosopos ipe oti ine ekpliktos kai apolita efxaristimenos kai i moni enstasi tou ine to prasino..ala teliwse me ti frasi...opos ola stin a8ina exoun parousiastei dia magias..pistevw oti 8a ksipnisw avrio to prwi kai 8a dw mia oasi prasinou (de ta ipe etsi akrivws..plaka kanw) Tous trelaname!

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1166719.htm

[arzour]

olo kai kalitera

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5848699

[Dr. M]

Τα διεθνή ΜΜΕ αναφέρονται στην αύξηση ενδιαφέροντος για τα εισιτήρια των Αγώνων. Χαρακτηριστικό αρθρο απο AP...

Οι διοργανωτές της Αθήνας λένε ότι οι πωλήσεις εισιτηρίων ανεβαίνουν, αναφέρει ο τίτλος του άρθρου.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040802/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_athens_ticket_sales_1

[Atlanta Greek]

Διαβασα το αρθρο του TIME και ειναι αρκετα αρνητικο. Τι περιμενεις απο την Ανθη Καρασσαβα; Λες και το γραψανε 3 μηνες πριν. Επειδη χρειαζεται συνδρομη, το βαζω ολο εδω.

T H E R O A D T O A T H E N S
Acropolis Now
Inside the crazy and uniquely Greek marathon of preparations in Athens, where the Games will link ancient and modern Olympians in exquisite athleticism
By JOSH TYRANGIEL

Sunday, Aug. 01, 2004
On a sweltering morning in mid-July, several hundred Athenians gathered in the hope of defeating an old stereotype. The Athens tram—shut down in 1960 by a government that thought mass transit was obsolete—was being relaunched to help reduce gridlock at the 2004 Summer Olympics. With the first tram of the new era due to arrive at Syntagma Square at 10 a.m., people spontaneously assembled on the platform to celebrate. "Greeks love a party," explained Maikl Tzamaloukas, 78, before launching into a popular song from his youth—"Go, go/ Get the last train!"—and dancing away down the platform.

By 10:45, Tzamaloukas had stopped dancing. The absence of the tram had turned into a taunt. "We are very sensitive at the moment," said Evangelos Stathatos, a teacher. "It's this Olympics business." Stathatos was speaking not of the record $7.2 billion that Greece is pouring into the Games nor of the frantic sprint to modernize Athens but of something more personal and painful: the worldwide presumption that the reputedly party-loving, responsibility-shirking Greeks are about to screw up one of humanity's more pleasant diversions. "The world believes that Athens is not ready, that we do not know how to do things right," he said. Stathatos peered down the empty track, then smiled awkwardly. "I hope the world is wrong."

It is. Sort of. No Olympic city, ancient or modern, is ever quite ready for such a huge spectacle, especially one that is now burdened by the baggage of global terrorism. Montreal played host to the 1976 Games with an unfinished Olympic stadium; the Atlanta Games never solved their traffic and technology woes. Even Sydney, lauded as the paragon Olympics just four years ago, had myriad preparation problems—not the least of them weak ticket sales—that were soon lost in the euphoria of the competition and the welcoming atmosphere. For all host cities, the first scorekeeping of the Games is how much remains undone before the sporting events commence. And, yes, Athens seems to have lapped the field.

Yet the Games will go on, and even if the promise of international unity through ferocious competition seems a bit quaint, the Games are at least a lock to mint fresh heroes who renew the Olympic tag line of "swifter, higher, stronger." The swimming pool doesn't have a roof, but it does have water, in which American Michael Phelps will try to rekindle memories of Mark Spitz. And unlike Montreal's unfinished structure, the Athens Olympic stadium does, as of June, have a roof, though seats are another issue. No matter: the track is down, and on Aug. 24, Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, perhaps the greatest middle-distance runner of all time, will chase the 1,500-m gold medal that keeps eluding him. In the nearby Indoor Hall, tiny Brazilian gymnast Daiane dos Santos will spring all 4-ft. 7-in. of herself into impossible flips and twists. At the end of 17 hypercovered days, TV watchers are likely to look back in amazement at the opening ceremonies and the 100-m dash, in amusement at speed walking and team handball, and move contentedly along to football season.

But for those making the trip, consider this a travel advisory: as the Aug. 13 torch lighting draws near, many venues still don't have pavement, signage or landscaping. The architect of the main stadium, Santiago Calatrava, insists he will need every minute until the opening ceremonies to finish his work. The $312 million central security system, designed to monitor everyone from pickpockets to al-Qaeda operatives, will not be fully operational. The nation's power grid is shaking like an old washing machine. Every class of laborer, from hotel employees to prostitutes, has threatened an Olympics-timed strike. Traffic barely moves.

If the situation sounds dire, it is actually much improved. In 1997, a year after watching parvenu Atlanta turn the Olympics into the world's largest county fair—lots of ads, lots of barbecue, no gravitas—the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) awarded the 2004 Games to Athens. The only reason was history. For 1,200 years—from the mid-700s B.C. to the end of the 4th century A.D.—tens of thousands of spectators from across the ancient world descended on the fields of Olympia to watch athletes compete. Wars were suspended, clothes were stripped off, and wine was devoured in what was the premodern equivalent of Woodstock, the Super Bowl and a suburban key party. In their 2004 bid, the Greeks promised not just to reference their history but also to re-create it. The shot-put event would be staged amid the ruins of ancient Olympia; the marathon course would retrace the doomed steps of Phidippides and end with a triumphant lap around Panathinaiko Stadium, site of the first modern Olympics in 1896. And those Games went swimmingly. There were 311 participating athletes (men only). Cost to the host: $542,300.

The I.O.C. was so captivated by Athens' past that it overlooked the city's present. It had no modern infrastructure, a serious domestic-terrorism problem, a limp economy and a labor force best described as mercurial. Indeed, three years after winning its bid for the Games, Athens had accomplished nothing in terms of venue construction, security or strategic planning. In April 2000, Juan Antonio Samaranch, then president of the I.O.C., described Athens as the worst organizational crisis in his 20-year career.

To save itself from historic ignominy, Athens turned to a hurricane of a personality known as Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki. Although she had headed the successful bid committee, she had been left off the inappropriately named organizing committee. So she took it over. A Harvard lecturer and the first woman to lead an Olympic organizing committee, Angelopoulos-Daskalaki exudes so much power in such expensive skirts that she appears to have leaped fully formed from the imagination of Danielle Steel. Using her political clout as a former member of the Greek Parliament, her commercial savvy as the wife of a shipping tycoon and an impeccable instinct for knowing when to scare or seduce her adversaries, she somehow persuaded the government, which oversees all public works and Olympic construction in Greece, to begin a desperate game of catch-up on 138 Olympics-related infrastructure projects. "It was like running the marathon," she recalls, "at a sprinter's pace."

Given where Athens started, the accomplishments are startling. There's an efficient new international airport with a 20-mile suburban railway link, a new subway system that carries 530,000 passengers into central Athens daily, 130 miles of new and upgraded roads, and the restored tram that connects the city to the sea. President Costis Stephanopoulos now boasts of the "Greek way" of last-minute heroics, while the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, announced in June, "This is a—should I say it?—a Greek screwup which is inherent in our character. But in some miraculous way, it produces good results." Still, not everyone is impressed. "They've done a lot," says an I.O.C. executive. "If they were hosting the Olympics in 2008, I'd be very encouraged."

Although many of the remaining loose ends are cosmetic, there is an escalating roster of what an Olympic security consultant calls "holy s___!" problems. Even with gleaming mass-transit facilities, traffic experts recently clocked the average speed on 20 major Athens roads at 6 m.p.h., rendering emergency-service vehicles essentially useless. (Not that it will matter if ambulance drivers make good on their strike plans.) Two recent blackouts have stumped city engineers. And while members of Greece's notorious anticapitalist November 17 terrorist group were jailed last year for committing 19 murders over an 18-year period, small terrorist bombs still detonate in Athens with astonishing regularity.

Those issues have lately tarnished Athens' status as a cultural capital awash in history—the Romans were tourists here. Athens is a captivating, sophisticated city with swank shopping districts, colorful neighborhood squares known as plateies and lots of convivial sidewalk cafes, or kafeneia. Stretching from the deep blue waters of the Saronic Gulf to the rocky slopes of Mount Hymmetus, Athens is a lively jumble of modernity mixed amiably with the majestic remnants of this city's glorious past, from the elegant Parthenon, which keeps watch over the city, to the soaring columns of the Temple of Zeus in the city center. Wherever you turn, history blinks back. Even in the spanking-new metro system, ancient ruins found in some stations during construction are encased in glass.

The Greeks are desperate to change their national can't-do image by throwing a first-class Games. But they are physically, spiritually and monetarily tapped out from having packed all their Olympic preparations and a century of urban renewal into four dizzying years. "Everything we have done here is beyond any human imagination," said Public Order Minister George Voulgarakis in early July. "It is well known we really spent more than we could afford." Greece is one of the smallest countries to play host to the Summer Games, and the I.O.C., an organization normally allergic to accepting blame, has conceded that handing the prize to a nation of 11 million people who have an average annual income of $11,000 was a mistake. In a recent interview with a Belgian newspaper, I.O.C. president Jacques Rogge said future Olympic sites would "already have a maximum of infrastructure in place and a minimum of virtual plans."

All officials can do now is try to minimize the damage. There's no time to put a roof on the pool or relocate the rowing venue that sits on waters so buffeted by gusts that the area is studded by windmills, but cleanup crews are removing litter from public squares, the city's thriving population of stray dogs is being tagged, and traffic restrictions have been enacted to ensure that at least the competitors will be able to get to the events. If it's any comfort, the ancient Games weren't a picnic for spectators either. Tony Perrottet, author of The Naked Olympics, describes the facilities in Olympia as "reminiscent of a badly planned rock concert" and the city as dirty, impossible to navigate and disease ridden. Those who hiked the 210 miles from Athens had nowhere to sleep; the one hotel was cordoned off for VIPs.

Any temptation to reduce the deficiencies of Athens 2004 to charming historical echo stops cold when it comes to security. Even before Sept. 11, foreign governments were worried about Greece's lingering problems with domestic terrorism, its vast, unsecurable coastline and its proximity to the terrorist hubs of the Balkans, the Persian Gulf and North Africa. After Sept. 11, Greece openly asked for help with security and, in conjunction with its NATO partners, agreed on a cooperative strategy that is the obverse of the Powell doctrine. The plan, says a Western official, is to scare off terrorists with an overwhelming display of resources: "You want to put enough whistles and alarm bells on the house of the Olympics that if some [terrorist] looks at it, he's going to say it's too hard."

The deterrents in place are impressive. NATO will provide awacs aircraft to monitor Greek airspace. The U.S. Sixth Fleet will patrol the Mediterranean while the Turkish and Italian navies cruise the Aegean and Ionian seas. A 70,000-strong force of Greek police and military—nearly twice the number of troops deployed in Kosovo in 1999—will patrol the country. Security personnel will outnumber athletes 7 to 1. Publicly, the international community has gone out of its way to praise the Greeks for their willingness to accept advice (from Israelis on suicide bombers, the Czechs on chemical weapons, the Russians on Chechen rebels) and for ponying up $1.5 billion—15 times as much as Atlanta—in security costs.

Privately, there have been some serious dustups. Most prominent was the battle over who would actually protect the athletes. The U.S. and Israel, among other nations, insisted that their security forces be armed; the Greeks were offended by the implication that they couldn't be trusted to look after visitors and cited the Greek constitution, which forbids foreign personnel to carry weapons, as the final word on the matter. After months of wrangling, numerous sources say the U.S. and Greece agreed last week that only the Greeks will bear arms. It is a mutually beneficial lie that burnishes Greek pride, but in fact armed U.S. special-forces soldiers and an FBI hostage-rescue team will be riding shotgun on the U.S. squad. Nevertheless, for the first time in Olympic history, the I.O.C. has taken out an insurance policy, valued at $170 million, should the Games at any point be canceled because of terrorism.

So far, only one athlete is known to have backed out of Athens explicitly because of security concerns. U.S. rower Xeno Muller, a two-time Olympic medalist, was in his boat moments before the U.S. trials when he considered the risks and got out of the water. "I'm not against the Olympics," says Muller, who has three children. "All I know is that I'm slightly happier now that I'm not going. Actually, quite a bit happier." U.S. tourists seem to feel the same way. By most estimates, U.S. Olympic tourism is down 20% to 30%, and while some of that can be attributed to the weak dollar, nbc, which is hardly impoverished, has set up an alternative site for its traditional advertiser boondoggle. Fat cats can watch the Games from Bermuda.

For Americans, the Olympics provide a break between the political conventions and a brief chance to invest themselves in sports they usually don't care about. But in a nation with unmatched economic and athletic dominance, the Olympics are no longer a proving ground for U.S. national identity. There are no more miracles on ice. For Greeks, though, the Games were supposed to be both a glorious look back and a 21st century coming-out party. Instead, they have become a burden. "When we got the Games, almost everybody was enthusiastic and happy," says Nikos Dimou, a prominent Greek novelist and social critic. But Dimou says the fearsome cost and the shame of the admittedly necessary I.O.C. intervention have turned people off. "We stopped seeing the Olympics as 'our Games,'" he says.

The proof is at the box office. Organizers have sold only a bit more than one-third of the 5.3 million tickets available, even though many are priced well below those at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. They are counting on a typically Greek last-minute rush to fill the stands but admit it will take a miracle to engineer Olympic sellouts.

With the hurried preparations, the terrorism fears, Greek ambivalence and the ongoing drug scandal, the Olympic flame isn't burning too brightly. But these are still two of the better weeks in which to be a human being. The opening ceremonies may be cheesy —and you just know Yanni will be making an appearance—but when those 10,000 athletes from 202 countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan, march into the stadium in outfits that would be considered camp at the Tony Awards, the world will have a rare chance to see itself as it would like to be. And in the 16 days that follow, when those athletes achieve incredible things—and more often when they don't—we will also have a chance to indulge in a little global empathy. That alone is a reason to throw a party. Even if the tram never arrives.

With reporting by Anthee Carassava/Athens and Amy Lennard Goehner and Clayton Neumann/New York

[KEFALONITIS]

Sthn An8h h lexsh "gennitsaros" kai upoxeirio armozei ganti.

Anthee Karrasava is just kissing her editor's rear in order "to get a head.."

[KEFALONITIS]

Gia osous menoun USA: ULTIMATE GREECE

To Travel Channel eixe FOVERO afierwma sthn Ellada.
Apo 21:00 ews 22:00 afierwma stis omorfies tis Ellados(nhsia ,hpeirwtikh,clubs ,bars,people,sites etc) kai apo 22:00 ws 23:00 afierwma sthn arxaia Ellada.
Polu prosegmeno.Kanei anafora stous OA 2004.Ousiastika apotelei prosklhthrio kai malista polu apotelesmatiko

To eide enas filos mou Ispanos (madrilenos) pou menei Miami kai aurio kleinei eishthrio gia A8hna!!!
Eidate loipon pia h dunamh ths TV kai (emmeshs) diafhmhshs!
8a pame A8hna kai meta sthn mageutikh Kefalonia.


Psakte to programma TV.

Nomizw 8a exei epanalhpsh kai aurio kai alles meres.Mhn to xasete.

[KEFALONITIS]

LOIPON GIA TOUS XSENUXTHDES ..H EKPOMPH EPNALMBANETTAI TA MESANUKTA..SE 25' DHLADH!!!

[KEFALONITIS]

A8raki twn NYT sxetika me prosfath periplanhsh tou a8rografou Vescey sthn A8hna.Akomh ki autos pou htan epikritikotatos arxizei siga-deila na allazei tropari..

George Vecsey, Sports Columnist, NY Times

WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
Twelve days before the Summer Games open, I took a walk through the Plaka and Monastiriki sections of Athens, where Plato and Socrates once strolled.

The ancient lanes seem emptier than when I was here last year. I pictured Athenians out at their favorite island on this sultry Sunday - or perhaps making their escape from coming Olympic madness.

In front of a Greek Orthodox shrine, a five-man band of American Indians, named Color Indio, was performing native dances. A few were playing wind instruments, and the guitarist had gone electric. Four were wearing the feathers and headdresses of North America, their music sounding something like the ubiquitous South American groups that play the subways and streets of New York. Greek women posed for photos with the musicians.

The souvenir shops were loaded with costly Olympic-logo gear - ball caps for roughly $17.25, t-shirts for $32. More colorful and cheaper are t-shirts and caps honoring the Greek soccer team that won the recent European tournament in Portugal -- No. 9 Charistea and No. 1 Nicopolidis and the rest. Will the mementos of this unexpected championship cut into the sale of Olympic stuff?

One shop featured a Lenin CCCP shirt. In red, of course. Another store was called Zorba's Jewelry, reminding me of one of my 10 rules in life: Never eat in a Greek restaurant called Zorba's.

Strolling down the lane like a latter-day Socrates was a dog, reasonably groomed, with a collar and tag. Despite all the negative international publicity about stray dogs roaming the city, there don't seem to be many dogs at all. Spotting just one dog sends out a frisson of excitement, like seeing an American eagle or some other endangered species back home.

A man in front of a store shouts, "My jewelry is the most expensive in town."

We head back to the hotel for a rest. On Athinas St., a heavy whiff of fish from workmen hosing down the public market. The finish line for the bicycle road race is now locked down, with soldiers patrolling behind a chain-link fence. Another race against time: workmen at the Athena Grand Hotel still putting in the driveway.

Gyros sizzling on a spit. Shops selling watches, sponges and knives. Stacks of bananas, water bottles and cookies in the open air. Who's going to buy all this stuff?

We wake up Monday morning and suddenly a dozen large colorful Olympic banners hang from lampposts. The Games must actually be coming.

[Nikos C.]

Πάντως για να καταλαβαίνουμε περί τίνος πρόκειται, οι Vescey και σία είναι κάτι σαν Αμερικανοί Αναστασιάδηδες.

[futuro]

Όσο το διαβάζω αυτό, δεν μπορώ να κρατηθώ από τα γέλια.

[crs]

Greeks pass first tests

..."ATHOC is doing a very good job in getting the teams settled in so far," said Coates who in the past has taken Athens to task for delayed preparations...

..."It took 15 minutes, police were patrolling the lanes and it all worked," the official said. "Village accommodation is very, very good. The dining hall is good and the food is very good."


...Felli said the weightlifting venue he visited on Sunday was the best he had ever seen.
"I have never said that about any other venue in the world," Felli said.

...The chief judge of the Canoe-Kayak Slalom competition, Peter Horster of Germany, said feedback from competitors about the course was that they loved it.
"Many have asked if they can use it for winter training after the Games," Horster said.


Aπό FOX SPORTS

http://foxsports.news.com.au/olympics/story/0,9744,10318659-34056,00.html

[projected]

lol ..... pisteuw oti den uparxei site ston kosmo auth thn stigmh pou na exei mazemenes toses eidhseis gia tous Olumpiakous...

Oute Reuters , oute grafeio tupou na htan to site re paidia...

Exete trela8ei oloi !

[futuro]

Από το άρθρο του Yahoo! που μας συνείσφερε ο Dr. M.

[Ypsilon]

Και να φανταστεί κανείς ότι η Ανθή Καρασάββα πριν γίνει μια τόσο άθλια δημοσιογράφος, ήθελε να μπει στο Διπλωματικό Σώμα. Μάλιστα! Να έχεις την Ανθούλα διπλωμάτισσα, να κοιμάσαι ήσυχος τα βράδια για την τύχη της χώρας σου... Αυτή θα ήταν ικανή να πάρει τηλέφωνο κλαίγοντας την Τσιλλέρ τη βραδιά των Ιμίων, για να της ζητήσει συγγνώμη που δεν αναγνωρίστηκαν τα Ίμια ως Τουρκικά...
Αλήθεια, πώς θα μάθουμε πού μένει αυτό το τσουλί στην Αθήνα; (sorry για τα "γαλλικά"). Πολύ θα ήθελα να την πετύχω κάπου για να της κάνω μια διορθωτική στη μούρη, γιατί από βρισίδια δεν καταλαβαίνει η τύπισσα. Νομίζω μάλιστα ότι της αρέσουν κιόλας....

futuro
Ξέρω να διαβάζω Αγγλικά. Να τα γράφω έχω πρόβλημα!
Ευχαριστώ που με σκέφτηκες πάντως, πέρνα από τα γραφεία του stadia.gr για την απονομή της καθιερωμένης σοκοφρέτας!

[sq350]

[zigzag]

Μερικές παρατηρήσεις:

Βγήκε ο τύπος που έχει στείλει το CNN στην Αθήνα και αναρωτήθηκε στο ρεπορτάζ που έκανε γιατί βλέπει τόσο λίγους τουρίστες στους δρόμους. Ίσως ξεχνά την αρνητική προπαγάνδα που μεταδίδει το κανάλι του για χρόνια όσον αφορά την δυνατότητα της Ελλάδας να διοργανώσει τους αγώνες και το πόσο ανασφαλείς θα είναι οι τουρίστες και τα ρεπορτάζ για εκρήξεις δίπλα σε μεγάλα ξενοδοχεία κτλ κτλ.

Μόλις προχθές το κανάλι του έβγαλε αυτόν τον βλάκα τον Τζόνσον (τον πρώην Ολυμπιονίκη των 200μ) που έκανε υποτιμητικές δηλώσεις λες και θα πήγαινε στο Σαράγιεβο και ούτε λίγο ούτε πολύ έλεγε ότι πάμε στην Αθήνα προετοιμασμένοι ότι θα τεσταριστούν τα όρια της υπομονής μας και χασκογέλαγε με τον παρουσιαστή. Το μόνο που θα τεσταριστεί στην Αθήνα είναι τα όρια της ανοχής μας να κάνουμε τα στραβά μάτια στην ντοπαρισμένη ομάδα της αμερικής. Τελικά έχουν βγάλει αυτοί κανέναν Ολυμπιονίκη που να μην έκανε χρήση αναβολικών? Από ότι ακούω για παράδειγμα ο Καρλ Λιούης από τις επιπλοκές ίσα – ίσα που περπατάει.

Πάντως η αρνητική διαφήμιση είχε και το πολιτικό ΟΚ και για αυτό αν προσέξατε η κάλυψη που υπήρχε από τα Γαλλικά και Γερμανικά μέσα ενημέρωσης ήταν πολύ πιο ουδέτερη. Μην αναρωτιούνται μετά τους αγώνες οι φίλοι μας οι αμερικάνοι (και οι δορυφόροι τους) γιατί οι οικονομικοί και πολιτικοί δεσμοί με την Ελλάδα θα χειροτερεύσουν ακόμα περισσότερο.

[marin]

Den tairiazei apolytws edw alla osoi zoun en Agglia, elpizw na eidan proi proi to reportaz tou BBC gia to Wembley kai tis miniseis pou etoimazzetai na kanei i kataskeuastria etairia stous designers tis perifimis apsidas kathws antimetopizoun sobara problimata kai theoroun oti yparxei sobaro design flaw...

EDIT: Pros to paron tipota sto BBC news 24 internet site. Pantws to proi itan sti thematiki enotita me ta nea apo Londino