Greece At The 2004 Summer Olympics
Greece was the host nation for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The delegation of 426 athletes, 215 men and 211 women, was represented by the Hellenic Olympic Committee. It was the largest Greek Olympic team since the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, Greece in 1896, where 176 Greek athletes competed.
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Famous quotes containing the words greece and/or summer:
“Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“Cling with life to the maid;
But when the surprise,
First vague shadow of surmise
Flits across her bosom young,
Of a joy apart from thee,
Free be she, fancy-free;
Nor thou detain her vesture’s hem,
Nor the palest rose she flung
From her summer diadem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)