Organizers feeling pre-Games pride

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You can't really blame the organizers, after all they've been through.

Thursday marked the official opening of the revamped main Athens square, Syntagma – meaning "Constitution" in Greek – at a cost of more than $7 million. It looks very nice, no doubt about it, but then again it always did.

The remaining challenge for organizers these days is to avoid boasting. The capital had previously succeeded – unintentionally – in lowering people's expectations so much that just to hold the 2004 Olympic Games was seen as an incredible achievement.

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