Word: helliniko
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...rotting." Rather than serving as a home to the sport for which it was built, he complains, the $144 million facility is now used as a depot for a handful of vehicles. The compound is lifeless, with not even a seagull in sight. Across the road at the Helliniko Olympic Complex, venues for another seven sports - baseball, basketball, canoeing and kayaking, fencing, handball, hockey and softball - gather dust. Posses of stray dogs roam across the expanses of untended grounds, loose electrical cables hang over dented fences and garbage mounds pile up behind chained gates. Greece's military is keeping watch...
...dominated the sport for more than a decade, being best in town right now means being best in the world. Before Athens, Trillini had won four Olympic golds (three team, one individual) and Vezzali had won three (two team, one individual). On the morning of their duel, held in Helliniko on the sun-kissed coast south of Athens, "I cried because of the stress," Vezzali told reporters after the contest. "I didn't think of the gold at all." Trillini, a thoughtful and intense fencer, gained an early lead, scoring the only hit of the first round. But the energetic...
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