The Games of XXVIII Olympiad will be held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004. Athens was chosen as the host city in 1997, after surprisingly having lost the bid to organise the 1996 Summer Olympics, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games. In 1997, they had a bid that was not only founded on their tradition, and they defeated Rome in the last round of voting, after Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Cape Town and San Juan had already received too few votes.

After that, the International Olympic Committee had expressed its concern over the status of the progress of construction work of the new Olympic venues. A new Organising Committee was formed under President Gianna Agellopolos-Daskalaki and all preparations began. Athens today has been transformed into a city that uses state of the art technologies in transportation and urban development and some of the most modern sporting venues in the world are ready to host the 2004 Olympic Games.

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