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...just. The closing, fittingly, was excruciatingly slow, the huge steel arch moving at a rate of 5.5 m/h as teams of engineers and builders hung like spiders from ropes and perched on cranes. It took four days in all. "Thank God," sighed Greece's chief Olympic organizer Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki when it was finally over. Other blessings soon followed, as the International Olympic Committee delivered its final report on Athens' preparations, noting that 25 of 35 sporting venues were ready, and the remaining 10 at least 85% complete. "We had doubts," the I.O.C.'s Denis Oswald told reporters...
...progress in recent months, serious doubts remain about whether all the projects will be completed on time. In April 2000, Juan Antonio Samaranch, then president of the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.), warned that the Games were endangered by delays in construction and planning. Heads rolled in Athens. Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who had led the bid to secure the Games for the city, was brought back in May 2000 to head ATHOC, the Athens Organizing Committee. She got results. She reorganized ATHOC, forged close links with the Greek government and by weight of her formidable personality steamrolled the opposition and made...
Holly Sargent, associate dean for external affairs at the Kennedy School, said that Angelopoulos-Daskalaki-who was a member of the Greek Parliament-has demonstrated her ability to hold her own in a field largely populated...
...said that he had not yet spoken to Angelopoulos-Daskalaki and was unsure whether future commitments might preclude her from her role as vice chair. But he added that he would like to bring her to Cambridge to conduct workshops or speak at the ARCO Forum when she becomes available...
...exactly the kind of woman we would like to expose our students to," Nye said.ReutersTHEY'RE BACK: GIANNA ANGELOPOULOS-DASKALAKI celebrates the return of the Olympics to Greece...