Untold Stories of the Olympic Games
by Andy Miah The Olympic Games is one of the biggest spectacles worldwide, yet there is a lot that happens ...
The finishing line
This is our last day in Athens. How quickly it has all happened! The morning is spent trying to arrange ...
Radcliffe’s Greek tragedy
We go to the Panathenaico together to see end of Women Marathon. The entry is a bit chaotic, with contradicting ...
Visa Olympians meeting centre
After a big breakfast with our hosts, we get to the ZPC and spend some time taking photographs at the ...
Olympic park – athletics
A full day at OAKA today for the athletics. We depart at around 730am, missing our bus and, thus, taking ...
Olympic opera
At 7pm we leave the ZPC for the Odeon of Herod Atticus. There we are going to see the opera ...
Commonwealth connections
After the exhausting – but great – interviews session, Beatriz gets back to the Zappeion Press Centre to attend a ...
Ancient Olympia or bust
At 3.45am, we walk over to Syntagma to catch the media coach down to Olympia. This was not provided free ...
Zappeion events
Later that day, the Expo 2008 Thessaloniki bid committee gave a presentation about their aims. That night, we would prepare ...
Athens by art
Depart home around 9.15am, Beatriz was due to meet Nelly Kyriazi, Director of the Municipal Gallery of Athens. She is ...
City scenes
Arrive at ZPC at 1130am only to find out that our Main Press Centre accreditation application has been declined. The ...
Olympic park and gymnastics
We took the tram and metro back to the centre on our way up to the main Olympic stadium – ...
