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Olympic Games returned to their birthplace 4 years ago. Athens has hosted the 2004 Olympic Games. The organization has been successful and everyone was impressed by what, the small country that has hosted the games, has managed. Athens during the Olympic Games in August 2004 has been a colorful, vivid and happy metropolis hosting visitors from all over the world. Though governments nowadays seem incapable of respecting any kind truce, people prove that friendship and understanding cannot be divided by boarders - you could see that in case you found yourself in Athens by that time. People from different backgrounds met in Athens and strong friendships were built.
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In the early seventeenth century, an "Olympic Games" sports festival was run for several years at Chipping Campden in the English Cotswolds, and the present day local Cotswold Games trace their origin to this festival. They were a local sports event with extraordinary sports, such as shin-kicking.
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Visa was the first worldwide Olympic partner to mount a destination marketing program linked to an Olympic Games host city. In Sydney, Australia, Visa generated US$40 million in marketing value for Australia over a four-year period, with a 7 percent increase in tourism. During the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games, sales on Visa payment cards increased 30 percent over the same period in 2001 and 23 percent over the previous month. Visa transactions in Greece in August 2004 increased by 55 percent year over year. At the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games, the average transaction at Visa ATMs was 35 percent higher than in Athens and 95 percent higher than in Salt Lake City.
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VANOC commissioned the research and writing of The Legacies of North American Olympic Winter Games report in July 2006. The researcher and author, Kate Zimmerman, has been a journalist in Canada for 27 years, writing for numerous newspapers and magazines. She lives in North Vancouver, BC.
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"A Los Angeles 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games would provide a tremendous boost to an already dynamic economy," said Barry Sanders, chairman of the SCCOG. "This financial benefit integrates very well with our Los Angeles bid that brings together so many elements of our community. Ultimately, the combination translates to a spirit and pride that will be fostered during the Games and beyond for many years to come."
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[I]n Olympia is the altar of the Olympic flame, which is transferred every four years to the city that hosts the Olympic Games. The lighting of the flame takes place at the altar of the Temple of Hera and it is done with the convergence of sunlight onto a metal reflector. This process is part of a ritual combination that includes the prayer and the hymn to Apollo. The high priestess enters the stadium holding the lit torch which she then hands over to the first runner in order for it to start its long journey to the ends of the earth.
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