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Athens News Agency: News in English, 00-10-03
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[01] Olympic Medalists-Return
[01] Olympic Medalists-Return
03/10/2000 12:25:31
Greece's Olympic champions returned home on Tuesday to a simple welcome
by the country's political and sports leaders, and dedicated their
medals to the memory of the victims of a ferry shipwreck off the coast
of Paros the previous week.
"We dedicate our medals to the people who were lost in the maritime
tragedy off Paros," weightlifter Pyrros Dimas, a gold medalliast in
three consecutive Olympics, said as the Greek Olympics team was greeted
by the country's political and sports leaders, headed by prime minister
Costas Simitis, upon landing at Athens airport from the 2000 Games in
Sydney, Australia.
The athletes brought home a total of 13 medals, which ranked Greece
among the top 20 medal-winning countries in the 27th Olympiad.
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