Greece Travel Guía

Independent from its cultural and architectural events Athens also can enjoy the modern Olympic Games and the marathon between its durable heredities. Panhellenic athletic competitions was supported in Athens from the fourth century aC and it rehabilitated like the modern Olympic Games in 1896. After the initial disappointment of seeing in the millenium the Olympic Games they go to Sydney, Athens gave him the welcome to the Games at home again in 2004. The marathon remembers the Greek soldier Phidippides that ran 42km (26 miles) of the battlefield in the Marathon to Athens, to announce the Greek victory on the Persians (490aC). He delivered its word message, “Nenikamen“ (we have won) - and then we fell down died. Athens annually repeats the Marathon with its own steps in the field of battle to the Stadium Olympic 1896.

Although the national Greek team has not seen a lot of success in the last years, the soccer is for many the select national sport. In the national league, the local giants are Panathanaïkós and AEK in Athens and Olympiakós in Piraeus. The period careers from September until June and the soccer main ones are played in Athens the Olympic Stadium, Athens the Sports Olympic Complex, Maroussi. The basketball and the volleyball are also frequent. These sports events greatly have contributed constructing of several sports bigger or smaller modern resources, stadiums and buildings that train for a wide range of sports throughout of Greece, where both the local inhabitants and visitors with the area have the opportunity of prácticar its select sports. Also, many hotels provide sports special facilities of its clients (the basketball, the volleyball, the tennis, the golf, nautical sports etc.) . Individual place box offices sell to themselves earnings for sports national events. While SEGAS, Syngrou 137, sells brought in at international events. The Olympic committee can provide the information for any next Olympic Game.

Sports in Athens
Olympic Games
Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin was a French pedagogue and the historian best known to be to the founder of the modern Olympic Games. Thanks to him, in 1896, they granted the first modern Olympic Games to Athens. In those years Athens had an approximate population of 123,000 persons and the international image helped to increase the cities. Of the places used for these Olympics, they included the Stadium Kallimarmaro, and Zappeion. This would be more than 100 years before again they were granting the Olympics to Athens.

After 100 years approximately, Athens introduced the Olympic Games summer 2004 on September 5, 1997 in Lausanne, Switzerland, after having lost a previous offer to introduce the Olympics summer 1996, to Atlanta, the United States. The second time would be Athens would have the honor of receiving the Olympic Games, the first one than of being in 1896. After the unsuccessful offer of 1990, the offer 1997 radically was improved, and also it included a request to the Olympic history. The Games 2004 were awarded a big success, like both the safety and the organization they were extraordinarily well and only a few visitors reported less difficulties, principally concerning accommodation questions or the transport. Essentially, the only notable difficulty was a scarce asistenciaalgo of some preliminary events. Sooner or later, nevertheless, a whole of more than 3.2 million earnings was sold, that was higher than any other one Olympics with the exception of Sydney.