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Sailing duo clinches gold Greece’s Tsoulfa and Bekatorou seal win in 470 category with race to spare Greece's Sophia Bekatorou and Emilia Tsoulfa wrapped up the country's third gold medal yesterday, with one race to spare, after dominating the 470 category regatta.

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Costs and benefits of Athens Games

Estimating that the cost of hosting the Olympics will exceed 7 billion euros, and with fiscal pressures growing, the government is seriously considering the possibility of selling or leasing Olympic facilities after the Games.

Doubts grow over Kenteris crash

Glyfada's traffic police will today give the prosecutor their report into the motorcycle accident that star sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou said they had in the coastal suburb last Thursday night.

Teachers fail to spot dyslexia

Eighty percent of all Greek schoolchildren suffering from dyslexia are not diagnosed with the condition soon enough...

Free Paralympic seats for pupils

Hoping to avoid even sparser spectator turnout at the Paralympics than at the opening events of the ongoing Olympics, the government is buying up thousands of tickets for the September Games which are to be distributed free of charge.

Athens 2004 sees red at blue take on Games

Stung to litigation by headlines such as «go for a Sexathlon gold» and «2004 seconds of ecstasy,» the Athens 2004 Olympic organizing committee has sought a ban on circulation of a soft porn magazine.

IN BRIEF

Greece 'among top EU offenders' in adopting green regulations : Greece, along with France, Ireland, Italy and Spain, is among the worst offenders...

Anarchists cause chaos at offices of sports body in 'symbolic protest' : Police cordoned off a section of Syngrou Avenue early yesterday afternoon following an anonymous telephone warning...

Vouliagmeni disruptions tomorrow : Practice sessions for the Olympic triathlon event will cause traffic disruption...

Cabbies scolded : Deputy Transport Minister Anastassios Nerantzis yesterday warned unions representing the country's taxi drivers...

Road accidents : Five young people, including two policemen, were killed in Athens road accidents...

Gas leak : A in the basement of the Asteras Vouliagmenis Hotel, in southern Attica, at noon yesterday was stopped...

Stone-throwers : Police yesterday arrested two 22-year-old German citizens, one an ethnic Greek, for allegedly throwing stones...

Migrants intercepted : Port Authority officers in Igoumenitsa on Wednesday night detained 19 illegal immigrants...


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EDITORIAL

Homecoming When critics rushed to slam Greece's hopes of being ready on time for the Summer Games, World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound insisted that the homecoming of the Games would be crucial for the Olympics movement. In a world, said Pound, which appears to have lost its moral compass in all areas of public life, a return to the roots of the Games was necessary to revive the Olympic commitment to moral athletics.

COMMENTARY

Rogge’s warnings Jacques Rogge's repeated and unreserved praise for the splendid opening ceremony and the Games' organization in general have reminded us of his statements in an interview with the Belgian paper Le Soir a few months ago. The IOC president made some scathing remarks saying that Athens had presented mostly virtual venues. Rogge felt worried at times the Olympiad was at stake and in that sense his criticism was useful and justified.

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