Olympic games 2004 handball

However, the number of studies in handball is small. The aims of this present study were i to compare handball game-related statistics by the match outcome winning and losing teams and ii to identify characteristics that discriminated performance in elite women's handball. Differences between match outcomes winning or losing teams were determined using the chi-squared statistic, also calculating the effect sizes of the differences.

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More The Greeks, unperturbed, maintained that they would make it all along. Late July and early August witnessed the Athens Tram become operational, and this system provided additional connections to those already existing between Athens and its waterfront communities along the Saronic Gulf. The upgrades to the Athens Ring Road were also delivered just in time, as were the expressway upgrades connecting Athens proper with peripheral areas such as Markopoulo site of the shooting and equestrian venues , the newly constructed Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport, Schinias site of the rowing venue , Maroussi site of the OAKA , Parnitha site of the Olympic Village , Galatsi site of the rhythmic gymnastics and table tennis venue , and Vouliagmeni site of the triathlon venue.

The upgrades to the Athens Metro were also completed, and the new lines became operational by mid-summer. At least 14 people died during the work on the facilities.

Most of these people were not from Greece. Before the Games, Greek hotel staff staged a series of one-day strikes over wage disputes. They had been asking for a significant raise for the period covering the event being staged. Paramedics and ambulance drivers also protested. They claimed to have the right to the same Olympic bonuses promised to their security force counterparts.

The games left Athens with an expanded subway system, a new airport along with other transportation infrastructure such as new highways, bridges, buses and light rail. It has also left debt and a number of abandoned or underused stadia for sports, including the five venue Athens Olympic Sports Complex. For the first time the Olympic Flame toured the world. The lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame took place on 25 March in Ancient Olympia.

For the first time ever, the flame travelled around the world in a relay to former Olympic cities and other large cities, before returning to Greece. The mascots were based on this clay model at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. The sister and brother were named after Athena, the goddess of wisdom, strategy and war, and Phoebus, the god of light and music, respectively.

They were inspired by the ancient daidala , which were dolls that had religious connotations as well as being toys. For the first time, major broadcasters were allowed to serve video coverage of the Olympics over the Internet, provided that they restricted this service geographically, to protect broadcasting contracts in other areas. They were not allowed to post audio, video, or photos that they had taken.

An exception was made if an athlete already has a personal website that was not set up specifically for the Games. Focusing on the television coverage of the Games, it did provide video clips, medal standings, live results. Its main purpose, however, was to provide a schedule of what sports were on the many stations of NBC Universal.

The Games were on TV 24 hours a day on one network or another. As with any enterprise, the Organizing Committee and everyone involved with it relied heavily on technology in order to deliver a successful event.

The technical infrastructure involved more than 11, computers, over servers, 2, printers, 23, fixed-line telephone devices, 9, mobile phones, 12, TETRA devices, 16, TV and video devices and 17 Video Walls interconnected by more than 6, kilometers of cabling both optical fiber and twisted pair. It also kept the information flowing for all spectators, TV viewers, Website visitors and news readers around the world, prior and during the Games. The Media Center was located inside the Zappeion which is a Greek national exhibition center.

Between June and August , the technology staff worked in the Technology Operations Center TOC from where it could centrally monitor and manage all the devices and flow of information, as well as handle any problems that occurred during the Games. The TOC was organized in teams e. The TOC operated on a 24x7 basis with personnel organized into hour shifts. The Olympic Flame at the Opening Ceremony. It began with a twenty eight the number of the Olympiads up to then second countdown paced by the sounds of an amplified heartbeat.

After a drum corps and bouzouki players joined in an opening march, the video screen showed images of flight, crossing southwest from Athens over the Greek countryside to ancient Olympia.

Then, a single drummer in the ancient stadium joined in a drum duet with a single drummer in the main stadium in Athens, joining the original ancient Olympic Games with the modern ones in symbolism.

At the end of the drum duet, a single flaming arrow was launched from the video screen symbolically from ancient Olympia and into the reflecting pool, which resulted in fire erupting in the middle of the stadium creating a burning image of the Olympic rings rising from the pool.

The Opening Ceremony was a pageant of traditional Greek culture and history hearkening back to its mythological beginnings. The program began as a young Greek boy sailed into the stadium on a 'paper-ship' waving the host nation's flag to aethereal music by Hadjidakis and then a centaur appeared, followed by a gigantic head of a cycladic figurine which eventually broke into many pieces symbolising the Greek islands.

Underneath the cycladic head was a Hellenistic representation of the human body, reflecting the concept and belief in perfection reflected in Greek art. A man was seen balancing on a hovering cube symbolising man's eternal 'split' between passion and reason followed by a couple of young lovers playfully chasing each other while the god Eros was hovering above them.

There followed a very colourful float parade chronicling Greek history from the ancient Minoan civilization to modern times.