After the Games: The eerie abandoned Olympic venues captured on camera

Photographs taken around Athens 10 years after the 2004 Olympic Games show a significant number of abandoned Olympic sites, ...
Time

Was It Worth It? Debt-Ridden Greeks Question the Cost of the 2004 Olympics

The Helliniko Olympic Complex in Athens was supposed to be thriving long after the 2004 Summer Olympics had ended. Built on part of the site of the city’s old airport for the Games, the facility ...
BBC Sport

Olympic countdown: 27 days

This year's Games in Athens will officially be the 28th Olympics of the modern era. The Olympics scheduled for 1940 and 1944, but which were cancelled because of World War II, still count as the ...
BBC Sport

Iraq reach last eight

Iraq booked their place in the Olympic men's football quarter-finals with a 2-0 victory over Costa Rica. Hawar Mulla Mohammed and substitute Mahdi Karim scored the goals to continue their side's ...