In 1998 the International Olympic Commitee gave to Greece the honour to organize the 2004 Olympics. Since that date and just before the opening of the Olympic games U.S and U.K media were acting with paranoia against Greece(Hellas). Every bitter word you can imagine were against my country.
That they were going to be the worst Olympic games, with terrorist attacks, very badly organized, even they were saying that in the end the 2004 Olympics will go back to Sydney because Athens wasn't going to be ready. All this 6 years we didn't said anything. We just waited untill the end of the Games to give the right answer with our works.
All the world said that Athens 2004 Olympics were the best. That a small counrty like Helllas can make miracles. But we are happy to see that the U.S media like CNN, Washington Post N.Y.Times, BBC and others came to ask for appologies and we accept their sorry. One article said Sygnomi(sorry) Hellas. For us the Greek people is more than enough because we know how to forgive. It is in our nature.
It is in our nature because this nature have been the same for the past 4000 years. A really heavy heritage that we Greeks carry. We have fight with countries and armies much bigger than we are. Like the Persians that they were numbered almost a million army 2600 years ago, and Greece had just 150.000 against that mighty army. But we at the battle of Marathon we were the winners.
We have gave to mankind the principle of Democracy 2500 years before, art, music, theatre, philosophy, mathematics, poetry. We were very well aware of our history and how we Greeks are proud of it. Besides we were the ones who invented the Olympic games 2700 ago, and we knew very well that for us there was only one way...TO MAKE THE BEST OLYMPICS EVER, and we have done it.
The authors of CNN and the rest media the have forget something: That when we were writting history their ancestors were hanging from the trees!!!
We are the ones that have the Olympic flame and we can make it shine brighter. That Flame has travel ALL over the world with the message of brotherhood and friendship...Pass the flame unite the world...were the lyrics of the song that was travelling with the flame.
With the end of the Olympics we knew that we have done it. We knew that we were going to be the winners of this games knowing that our herritage will pass for the next generations to come.