Athens, hockey and Olympic
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U.S. women's hockey goalie Gwenyth Philips honors her Ohio hometown with a unique brick design on her Olympic helmet.
Gwyn Phillips, a goalie with the U.S. women’s hockey team, grew up in Athens where she began developing her hockey skills on the ice at Bird Ice Arena.
The Olympic flame for the Milan Cortina Winter Games was formally handed to Italian organizers on Thursday in the all-marble stadium in central Athens where the first modern Olympics were held nearly 130 years ago. From Athens the flame will travel to ...
FILE - Lambis Nikolaou, head of the Greek Olympic Committee, right, hands the Olympic Flame to Mitt Romney, head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, at the Panathenian stadium in Athens on Dec. 3, 2001. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, file) LAUSANNE ...