Keywords: South Eastern Europe, Greece, English, Roma & travellers, media content
The Ano Liossia judo and wrestling stadium has brought the Olympic Games to the doorstep of Athens’ Roma (Gypsy) community. But the £56m stadium, in a northern suburb of the city, stands in stark contrast to the area around it – a sun-baked expanse dotted with debris, abandoned furniture and the wrecked remnants of cars and caravan trailers.
Local Roma people living in its shadow say that they are getting little benefit from the Olympics
(BBC, 12 August, 2004)
The people the Olympics forgot.doc