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2005-03-06 Europe

Venues rot as Greece loses its Olympic gains

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Posted by Steve White 2005-03-06 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11141 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Don't forget all the bribe money paid to the Olympic Committee to get the games there in the first place.

Posted by gromky 2005-03-06 3:02:15 AM|| 2005-03-06 3:02:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Cost of doing biz, I suppose.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-06 3:22:19 AM|| 2005-03-06 3:22:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Itn the Guardian worser even than the Sun.

Posted by Y Gibbons 2005-03-06 8:32:37 AM|| 2005-03-06 8:32:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 how could this great ancient civilization just end up like shit in this time period?

Posted by Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-03-06 12:29:25 PM|| 2005-03-06 12:29:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Buckets, dexterously placed around its carpeted stadium, collect droplets the size of large coins.

You mean, like the coins and other shit Greek fans throw at basketball players?

Would you bring your children to watch a game, knowing what could happen, knowing a member of your family, or yourself, could be struck by a coin, a lighter, or a rocket, or knowing you could find your car destroyed in the parking of the arena?

No, but it seems clubs donât think about that, clubs donât think about the financial damages created by a minority of lawless. Some clubs, like Olympiakos, contribute to exasperate the thoughts: the titles of Protathlitis, for example. And has everyone forgotten what happened 10 years ago, with the CSKA Moscow players poisoned before the 3rd game of the Euroleague quarters of final, and the farce of the Russian team playing with five men the decisive game to advance to the Final Four?

WWAS (What Would Aris Say)?

Posted by Raj 2005-03-06 1:22:40 PM|| 2005-03-06 1:22:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 (What Would Aris Say)?

Is that a rhetorical question?

I'd not bring my children to watch a basketball game, mainly because of the profuse amounts of vulgarity in the crowd's shouts.

I believe they nowadays forbid bringing cigarette lighters into basketball games, exactly because of the habit of Greek "fans" to throw them into the court when objecting to referree decisions.

Never heard about the CSKA Moscow thingy.

And as for Olympiakos, it's owned by Kokkalis, a multibillionaire mobster crook and former Stazi spy, the closest thing Greece has to an oligarch.

That's what I would say in general -- did you have a more specific question?

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-03-06 2:08:38 PM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~katsaris/] 2005-03-06 2:08:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 did you have a more specific question?

Nah, just an inquiry / confirmation. The Boston Celtics team had players who used to play a few years in Europe once they were done in the NBA Greece was the one place they'd complain about things like getting coins thrown at them. I'd think ~~better keep the coins - you're careers are about to end~~ what the hell's going on? It's nothing on you, man. Thanks for responding.

Posted by Raj 2005-03-06 3:38:20 PM|| 2005-03-06 3:38:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd not bring my children to watch a basketball game,

seeing as how you don't have any.

Posted by 2b 2005-03-06 11:26:36 PM|| 2005-03-06 11:26:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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