I love Greece. Mary and I spent our honeymoon there a few years ago, and we spent nearly two weeks cruising the Greek islands of Crete, Santorini and Naxos as well as taking in Athens.
So we’re excited that, starting a week from tonight with the opening ceremonies, Greece will play host to the 2004 Summer Olympics. It gives us a chance to revisit old memories and revel again in the spirit of the Greek people. (One of my friends at the Sacramento Bee, Larry Haralambakis, was a native of Greece.)
This gave me the motivation to do something I’ve been meaning to do for months: post some of my Greek photos on a TypePad photo album. So here goes: Enjoy the wonders of the Greek isles.
Meantime, the New York Times offers six photographers’ portraits of Greece.
And in today’s San Jose Merc, Charlie McCollum has this: NBC set to blanket U.S. with Olympics coverage.
In the history of television, there has never been an undertaking quite like NBC’s coverage of the summer Olympics from Athens.
Starting with a USA-Greece women’s soccer game Wednesday, two days before the Olympics’ opening ceremony, the network will produce 1,210 hours of coverage over 18 days, not just on NBC but also on the Spanish-language network Telemundo, NBC cable channels MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and USA, and the HDTV signal of NBC’s local affiliate stations.
That’s three times the hours that were devoted to the Sydney Summer Games in 2000 and 77 hours more than TV coverage of the past five summer Olympics combined.
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