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The Athens Olympic Stadium last night, during the medals ceremony of the women's pole vault.
The Good...
Greece's Fani Halkia won gold in the women's 400 meters hurdles, causing a sell-out crowd of 70 thousand at Athens' Olympic stadium to go wild.
Gal Fridman won Israel's first ever Olympic gold medal, in windsurfing. The silver went to Greece's Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, the Atlanta 1996 gold medalist, who was a great Greek hope for a medal in these Olympics too.
Australia continued its dominance in cycling,
The Bad...
The crowd chanted "Kenteris, Kenteris" and booed a smiling Shawn Crawford, whose faced appeared on the giant stadium television screens, before the first of the men's 200 meters semifinals yesterday at Olympic Stadium. It was a low point of the day.
In the meantime, three members of the US Attorney's office from San Francisco, investigating the BALCO scandal, met with Greek prosecutors yesterday in Athens, reportedly to convey evidence implicating Kenteris' coach Christos Tzekos with the infamous steroids lab.
And the Weird...
Robert Fazekas, the Hungarian discus thrower whose gold medal was stripped Tuesday by the IOC for failing to procure an adequate urine sample, during the post-competition anti-doping control, declared his innocence yesterday. Taking a line from almost everybody else in these Games that was caught cheating, Fazekas said that "others are behind this"...
nyloo's daily Olympic Diary
The night started with "the wave", as spectators created their own excitement during an uneventful women's javelin qualifying round, early in the evening.
And it ended with the Greek national anthem, for Fani Chalkia's spectacular win in the women's 400 meter hurdles.
Between these, the crowd chanted "Kenteris, Kenteris" before the first of the men's 200 meters semifinals. The athletes waited patiently for the chants to die down, and when the giant stadium television screens showed a smiling Shawn Crawford of the US the crowd booed.
Marion Jones qualified for the women's long jump final, with the second best jump of the qualifying round. So did Greece's Mirela Manjani, in the women's javelin throw.
Elsewhere, the trains run on time throughout the city, medals were awarded in 18 sports, the gyros joints around Monastiraki square continued selling hundreds of pounds of Greece's favorite fast food to the throngs of visitors that descend upon the area every night, and parties raged all over the city.
