JEFF POWELL: Critics of the Athens 2004 Olympics were expecting 'a building site Games' but Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki ensured that Greece produced a modern miracle
It was 3am of a moonlit night in Athens, just one week before the opening ceremony for the 2004 Summer Games, as the First Lady of the Olympics put on a hard hat and set out to spur on construction workers as they raced to beat that deadline. This was by no means the first - nor the last - of the many times Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki delivered flasks of coffee and her patriotic message to men and women working around the clock to deliver what a mocking world was calling 'impossibly Greek.
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