18 Days in August, an Olympic Blog

An open letter to the Greek people from Dick Ebersol Chairman of NBC

Now that the spotlights are switched off and the Games are over, we are all left with a sweet hangover for what we experienced here in Augus...

I have to admit that after my almost daily attendances at the Olympic stadia during August, I have been a bit slow in going to any Paraolymp...

As we were leaving the Olympic stadium after the Closing Ceremony all the volunteers had lined up the exits and were bidding us goodbye. The...

I owe you postings from my last few Olympics events, I was debating with myself on which to post first. I decided not go with chronological ...

On my way to the Closing Ceremony (more on that soon), while going through the perimeter security check (the first check were you go through...

some very interesting comments on the Olympics by the readers of the BBC

It seems that the only "negative" that the previous articles can mention about the Athens Games, was the fact that there were empt...

"Our dogs are not trained to read. They are trained to find bombs." A spokesman for the Athens organisers after a reporter from ...

Some more wishfull thinking by one of the worst critics of Athens... Times Online - Olympics If only they had Laura Peek publish an apolog...