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...magic lake water had been drained in just three minutes, Bjork performed a song about mother earth while her dress morphed into a map of the world that stretched over the heads of the athletes. It was the largest printed photograph ever. Bjork was followed by Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, the woman widely credited with saving the Athens Games from their own inertia in 2000. Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who smiles even when she's not smiling, got Greek pride going again and welcomed the world to the party...
...save itself from historic ignominy, Athens turned to a hurricane of a personality known as Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki. Although she had headed the successful bid committee, she had been left off the inappropriately named organizing committee. So she took it over. A Harvard lecturer and the first woman to lead an Olympic organizing committee, Angelopoulos-Daskalaki exudes so much power in such expensive skirts that she appears to have leaped fully formed from the imagination of Danielle Steel. Using her political clout as a former member of the Greek Parliament, her commercial savvy as the wife of a shipping tycoon...
...DASKALAKI, president, Olympic organizing committee
...neighboring districts for an hour. Pantelis Kapros, president of the Greek Energy Regulatory Authority, reminded everyone that in 2001 his organization had raised the prospect of a blackout just before the August Olympic Games. "Sadly, that has been confirmed," he said in a local radio interview. But Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who heads the Athens organizing committee, insisted "such an incident cannot affect the Games. All our venues have uninterrupted power supply systems." So at least in theory, if another blackout occurred next month, the backup system would make the Olympic venues islands of light in a darkened city. Last week...
...I.O.C.'s unexpected bullishness stemmed in part from reduced expectations. The alarm was sounded in 2000 by then I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch, who said the Athens effort was the worst organizational crisis in recent Olympic history. When Angelopoulos-Daskalaki took over the Games organization shortly after, she scaled back extravagant projects. Last February, the I.O.C.'s new president, Jacques Rogge, urged Greeks to forget the frills. Landscaping plans were pruned, a rail line was cancelled and the plastic roof over the Aquatic Center was scrapped. Even if everything goes well from here, those compromises will be felt. Visitors...