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News, information and stories about the Olympic Games in Athens 2004 and the Olympics in general up until 2007.

Wednesday, July 28, 2004

World's Largest and Longest Party

In order to keep peoples' spirits up, during the forthcoming Olympic Games in Athens, Mayor Dora Bakoyianni has decided to have a citywide party every night during the Games.

In a display of optimistic bravado, the Mayor has booked over 500 concerts and live performances together with other diversions such as; puppet shows, Dutch jazz players, acrobatics and cuisine from around the world.

The party will cost around $5M, now that's a party!

The party may help to boost visitor numbers; as noted earlier on this site, ticket sales are 5 million below target. The mayor has refused to comment on earlier estimates that 1.5 million people would come to Athens.

I suspect that the residents of Athens will be waking up with the world's largest hangover once all of this is over.

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