August 13, 2004
- The 2004 Olympic Games officially open in Athens(ESPN)
- Liverpool F.C. sell striker Michael Owen to Real Madrid for a fee of 12 million euros plus the midfielder Antonio Nunez.
- Sprinters Konstantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou are suspended from the Greek Olympic team after missing a compulsory doping test, and face possible expulsion from the games. (BBC)
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“Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were.”
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