日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

  Home>News Center>Sports
         
 

Spies give Olympics all clear
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-08-13 06:16

The world's top spies yesterday gave the Athens Olympics the all-clear - they have picked up no hint of an imminent attack on the eve of the Games.

Security personnel outnumber athletes seven to one at the biggest sporting event on earth. A fifth of the budget has been spent on security at the first Summer Games since the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.

After years of being lambasted for leaving preparations too late, organizers boasted that Athens had delivered the goods.

But national pride was dented by an embarrassing TV blackout in the middle of the soccer qualifiers.

Vowing "zero tolerance," the government sacked two senior managers at a state broadcaster and pledged that today's high profile opening ceremony - being beamed to billions worldwide - would not be affected.

Greece's Public Order Minister, former commando George Voulgarakis, believes that spending four times what Sydney did on security was a good investment, telling reporters: "We don't have any identification of any threat against Greece."

The latest security reports from the world's leading intelligence agencies show a lack of e-mail or telephone "chatter" among suspects nor any other evidence of a possible strike on the Games, Voulgarakis said.

And Europe's biggest peacetime security operation was given a grateful vote of confidence by Olympic chief Jacques Rogge who said Greece had done "everything humanly possible."

Dozens of world leaders are expected to join 10,500 athletes in time for today evening's opening ceremony. They are protected by a 70,000-strong Greek security force along with troops, ships and aircraft from NATO allies.

Modern Greece told the world on the eve of Athens 2004 that the Olympics will be as spectacular as any Games put on by their ancient forefathers.

With a nation's adrenalin flowing, Athens put the finishing touches to its first Olympics for more than a century and Games supremo Gianna Angelopoulos boasted: "Our people are ready."

"The whole world will discover that modern Greeks have the same ambitions and abilities as the ancients who gave us the Olympic Games," she said as the final countdown began for the six billion euro (US$7.34 billion) extravaganza.

Hollywood spectacular

Today's opening ceremony could be a real Hollywood-style spectacular - Years in the making, boasting a cast of thousands, it has all the showbiz razzmatazz needed to sell Greece to the world in a three-hour epic.

The producers are turning the stadium into a giant sea by flooding the arena. A flaming comet is to shoot into the water and light up the five Olympic rings.

The finale had been kept under wraps but the Greek paper To Ethnos said on Thursday that Olympic 200 metres champion Costas Kenteris would be lighting a giant torch, standing by a blazing olive tree that rises from the shimmering sea.

But many top competitors have spurned the opening ceremony. Joining the interminable parade of athletes could blunt their edge on the eve of the greatest challenge of their lives.

"I can't afford a big night out the day before I compete," said cycling road race champion Jan Ullrich.

The world's two most famous swimmers - American Michael Phelps and Australian Ian Thorpe - will also be conserving energy for their titanic struggles in the pool.



 
  Today's Top News     Top Sports News
 

Typhoon kills 63, injures 1,800 in Zhejiang

 

   
 

Experts: Consumer prices reach peak

 

   
 

Quake cracks reservoirs, 50,000 in danger

 

   
 

Chlorine leakage injures 70 in Jiangsu

 

   
 

Int'l patent fair opens with eye on technology

 

   
 

Olympic officials: No change in Beijing's plans

 

   
  South Korean archers break three world records
   
  Yao Ming realizes his Olympic dream
   
  Yao bets his beard on China's top eight finish
   
  Olympics: Women's soccer suffers blow
   
  Yu Zaiqing voted into IOC executive board
   
  Olympic women soccer: US beat Greece 3-0
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: a级一级片 | 免费黄色影视 | www日本在线观看 | 美女一区二区视频 | 午夜激情视频在线观看 | 国产一区二区三区免费在线观看 | 日韩国产一区二区 | 97国产成人 | 第四色在线视频 | av男人的天堂在线 | 中文字幕精品在线视频 | 亚洲情在线 | 午夜精品在线 | 成年人晚上看的视频 | 国产免费一区二区三区在线观看 | 永久久久久久 | 午夜久久网| 亚洲在线免费观看视频 | 欧美在线激情 | 337p亚洲欧洲色噜噜噜 | 日韩一区二区三区免费视频 | 精品天堂 | 成人午夜激情 | 中文av在线播放 | 麻豆国产在线视频 | 成人3d动漫一区二区三区91 | 欧美色悠悠 | 国产视频在线观看一区二区 | 国产男女在线 | 日韩操操操 | 四虎网站在线 | 欧美成人精品欧美一级私黄 | 黄色在线小视频 | 亚洲日本视频在线观看 | 欧美日韩在线播放 | av毛片在线播放 | 成人在线视频免费观看 | 国产91免费 | 欧美大片免费观看 | 亚洲色图综合网 | av一区二区三区在线 |