The Olympic Games of Athens: 10 years later

Abstract

This paper presents the Olympic Games of Athens in 2004 and the legacy they have left to the city of Athens and generally to Greece. It relies mainly on research made after the Olympic Games 2004, as well as on a pan-Hellenic survey conducted through questionnaires to a country-wide sample of 600 respondents, men and women, from urban and non-urban regions. The survey focuses mainly on the sports venues, the impact of the Games on the infrastructures and the quality of life in Athens, the impact of the Games on urban interventions, the social legacy and the economic impact.

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Notes

1. The research was conducted on 23 and 24 March 2015 by phone with structured questionnaires at country level. Six hundred people over 18 years of whom 79.1% questioned came from an urban population and 20.9% from a rural population. 48.6% of the respondents were men and 51.4% women. 9.9% had an educational level of primary education, 43% of secondary education and 46% of tertiary education. The sample of respondents answered a total of 24 questions.

2. The research was conducted by GPO with Professor K. Georgiadis as scientific director, among a sample of 600 people aged from 16 to 25 years, in March 2015. From the total of respondents, 48.4% were women and 51.6% men, 69.5% came from an urban population and 30.5% from a rural population.