- Title: GREECE: RENEWED CALL TO GIVE OLYMPIC GAMES PERMANENT HOME IN GREECE.
- Date: 28th January 1999
- Summary: ATHENS, GREECE (JANUARY 27, 1999) (RTN - ACCESS ALL) 1. GENERAL SHOT ACROPOLIS IN ATHENS 2. OLYMPIC COMMITTEE BUILDING 3. OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF GREEK OLYMPIC COMMITTEE CHARALAMBOS NIKOLAOU 4. (SOUNDBITE) (Greek) GREEK OLYMPIC COMMITTEE PRESIDENT LAMBIS NIKOLAOU SAYING: "If the Olympics were always held in Greece then the sol called payments to individuals would not be an issue and would come to an end. but I think it would be very difficult for other countries and the decision makers of the Olympic movement to accept this." 5. ANCIENT OLYMPIA:LIGHTING OF FLAME FOR ATLANTA OLYMPICS BY ACOLYTES 6. (SOUNDBITE) English) GENERAL DIRECTOR OF 2004 GAMES COSTAS BAKOURIS SAYING,"If we do an excellent organisation and staging of the Games, maybe that would be an additional inducement on our part to continue to press for that possibility." OLYMPIA, GREECE (FILE, 1997) 7. 1997:RE-ENACTMENT OF OLYMPIC GAMES BY ATHLETES IN ANCIENT STADIUM IN OLYMPIA IN HONOUR OF WINNING 2004 BID ATHENS, GREECE (JANUARY 27, 1999) 8. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE ON THE STREET RESPONDING TO IDEA ABOUT IF GAMES PERMANENTLY IN ATHENS THERE WOULD BE LESS SCANDAL: 9. (SOUNDBITE) (Greek) MAN ON STREET SAYING "Definitely we would want them here, where they were born, less scandals that way. Because Greece knows about olympics, here is the origin of the athlete, its not about trade or business." 10. (SOUNDBITE (Greek)WOMAN ON THE STREET SAYING: "When its a fact that the games will be permanently in one place, it will remove any possibility of corruption. Cf course, even the immortal can be bribed." ATHENS, GREECE (FILE) 11. ATHENS CONCERT FOR BID FOR 1996 OLYMPICS AT PANATHENIUM STADIUM. Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: ATHENS, GREECE
- Country: Greece
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