2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony

The closing ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on 29 August 2004 21:15 EEST (UTC+3) at the Olympic Stadium, in Marousi, Greece, a suburb of Athens.

The women's discus throw competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–21 August. It was originally planned to hold the discus throw at the Ancient Olympia Stadium, but it was discovered that the field was not large enough to accommodate the range of modern discus throwers, and would have posed a danger to spectators. As such, it was decided to move the discus throw and to hold the shot put at the ancient stadium, despite the fact that the shot put was not contested at the Ancient Olympic Games.On December 5, 2012, Belarusian discus thrower Iryna Yatchenko was stripped of her bronze medal after drug re-testings of her samples on methandienone had been discovered positive. Following the announcement of Yatchenko's disqualification, the International Olympic Committee Executive Board had distributed and awarded the bronze to Czech Republic's Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, who originally finished fourth in the final.

AEK Athletic Club was one of the first Greek clubs to found a youth academy back in 1934, while AEK Athens Football Club have managed them since 1979.

The Olympic Athletic Center of Athens Spiros Louis (Greek: Ολυμπιακό Αθλητικό Κέντρο Αθηνών "Σπύρος Λούης", Olympiakó Athlitikó Kéntro Athinón "Spýros Loúis") or OACA (OAKA)), is a sport facilities complex located at Marousi, in the north section of the city. The complex consists of five major venues as well as other supplementary sport facilities. The Olympic Athletic Center of Athens has hosted the Mediterranean Games in 1991, the World Championship in Athletics in 1997 as well as other important athletic and cultural events. The most significant event the Athens Olympic Sports Complex has hosted, was the Olympic Games. OACA was the main venue for the Athens Olympic Games in 2004. The complex was revamped for the games under a design produced by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.

The O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall (honorarily named Nikos Galis Olympic Indoor Hall since 2016), which is a part of the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens (O.A.C.A.) «Spyros Louis» (Greek: O.A.K.A. «Σπύρος Λούης»), was completed in 1994, and is the largest indoor venue in Greece and was used for sporting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece. It is located in Marousi, in the north section of the city. During their construction and renovations was considered to be one of the biggest and most modern indoor sports arenas in all of Europe. The 19,443-capacity arena also contains a training facility. Since 2016, it has been named after the well-known Greek former basketball player of Aris Thessaloniki and Panathinaikos «Nikos Galis».

The men's tournament of water polo at the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens, Greece, began on August 15 and lasted until August 29, 2004.

The Athens Olympic Tennis Centre is a grouping of 16 tennis courts at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex, in Marousi, Athens, Greece. The centre consists of a main stadium, known as The Main Court, seating 8,600 fans - though only 6,000 seats were made publicly available during the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Paralympics- two semifinal courts, seating 4,300 spectators - though only 3,200 seats were made publicly available during the Olympics - and thirteen side courts, seating 200 observers each. Each of the courts use the DecoTurf cushioned acrylic surface, the same surface as the U.S. Open Grand Slam event. The Main Court, in particular, is extremely large by the standards of major tennis competitions, with the seats being relatively far removed from the tennis court.

The Athens Olympic Tennis Centre Main Court, commonly known simply as, "The Main Court", is the main stadium of the Athens Olympic Tennis Centre, which is a group of 16 tennis courts, located at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex. The Main Court seats 8,600 people for tennis matches.

Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens took place on ten separate courts at the Olympic Tennis Centre. The surface was hardcourt. 172 players competed in four events. 2004 saw more of the top ranked players appearing, as this tournament saw world ranking points allocated to the players for the first time. Martina Navratilova made her first appearance at the Olympic Games where she partnered with Lisa Raymond in the ladies doubles.

The German School of Athens (German: Deutsche Schule Athen, DSA; Greek: Γερμανική Σχολή Αθηνών, ΓΣΑ), also known as the Dörpfeld Gymnasium, is a coeducational independent, kindergarten, elementary school and high school in Marousi, Athens, Greece.The school has been in operation since 1896 and was founded by architect and archeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious private schools in Greece, after a very large number of students graduating from the school has excelled in politics, the arts, science and business. While at kindergarten and elementary school level no differentiation of school systems is made, high school is currently split into a German section (with students eventually graduating with the German high school diploma) and a Greek section (with students graduating with German and optionally an additional Greek high school diploma). Pupils take entry exams in order to become students of the latter section so the school is considered highly selective. However, the school is currently undergoing a transition phase towards a unitary high school system. Upholding the tradition of an environment friendly school, the German School of Athens had Greece's largest solar roof installed before the 2004 Olympic Games. The project was backed by German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor (BMWA), the German Energy Agency and the Greek-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre is a complex at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Marousi, Athens, Greece, consisting of two outdoor pools and one indoor pool, that was built for the 1991 Mediterranean Games. It was refurbished and expanded for the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Paralympics. The larger of the two outdoor pools, which seats 11,500 spectators, hosted swimming and water polo events. The smaller pool, which hosted synchronized swimming, had the capacity for 5.300 people. The indoor pool also hosted the water polo finals and diving and the swimming during the Paralympics had capacity for another 6.300 persons. The outdoor pool was the subject of significant controversy during the run-up to the Olympic Games. At the bidding process, the Bidding Committee and the Greek Government promised that the outdoor pools would gain cover to meet the necessary conditions requested by FINA at the time. But, due to the inflation of the Game's works and the constant delays, it was decided that the planned coverage would have to wait for later, which until 2023 has not happened. According to preliminary assessments, the roof would serve to protect both athletes and spectators from the scorching sun and summer heat of Athens, which were even worse in the pools because of their location in the west. However, this ended up not happening because of inflated costs and constant delays in other works that were more urgent and there is no option, FINA approved the holding of events in outdoor pools that received temporary bleachers to reach the minimum required capacity these bleachers were higher than the fixed ones and provided shade for the outdoor pools and other areas of the complex, but not for the present public. Since 2005, outdoor pools have been used to host swimming programs during the period between the late spring to the early winter. During the high winter period, the programs were held in the indoor pools.In 2023, the two outdoor pools remain wide open to the sky.The location of the Olympic games was well thought out and needed a great place to be for Athens. The city of Athens wanted to use this opportunity to help improve the living and the quality of urban space. The hosting of these Olympic games and the urban regeneration hoped to be the start of a newer and better urban living. Unfortunately, after the games, the city did not have any set plans to do so. The last master plan dated back to 1985, and the next one was adopted in 2014, so they did not get the most out of the opportunity. It is known that the dynamics of urban cities have been strongly influenced by late 20th-century economic globalization. Hosting the 2004 Olympics at this aquatic center has helped Athens's economic growth and helped enhance the globalization of the urban areas. The aquatic center got many upgrades as well, which they made to ensure that the looks were up to date with global standards. Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre for the 2004 Olympics had a contract with the company PICO to supply the overlays to every Olympic center that was hosting the Olympic games. The Aquatic Centre needed many service overlays, tents, and stations to host all of the behind-the-scenes portions of the 2004 Olympics. This insured that the cameramen had the perfect locations to film, the security had tents and barricades set up so people could not sneak in, and insured the looks of the aquatic center were looking the best. They supplied nearly 1000 flag and banner poles, hanging up a variety of countries' flags and more.

The Ygeia Hospital was founded in 1970 by a group of Greek doctors, with the aim of creating a model for the country of a private hospital. It is the first large private nursing institution that operated in Greece and is one of the largest private hospital units in the country. In this hospital, Greece performed their first heart transplant and their first treated case of AIDS. They were the first in Europe radioactive granules were implanted in prostate cancer. In May 1989 the hospital successfully separated conjoined twins. In 2013, it was awarded as the best employer in Europe at the European Business Awards 2012/2013. Ygeia has a range of medical equipment: The first PET-CT (Positron Emission Tomography Department) to operate in Greece. The only GAMMA-KNIFE Brain Radiosurgery Department in Greece. A Da Vinci® S Robotic Surgery system for bloodless operations. A Radiotherapy and Oncology Center with modern linear accelerators: ELEKTA Axesse, Synergy, and Platform. The Day Treatment Unit (M.H.I.). A Fluid Organ Transplantation Units (bone marrow).