Greece have never won a medal at the Winter Olympics

Greece have never won a medal at the Winter Olympics

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
This week's the theme for Fact of that as the Olympics.
What the Olympics going on about happening makes sense? That happen, Ah,
And I just maybe even for for the full length
of the Olympics. There's a lot of facts about the Olympics.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, it'd have been around for a while.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I've been around for a long time. And that's kind
of what today's Fact of the Day kind of touches on.
Because I noticed Greece were like first out of the
blocks for the opening ceremony because it's the thing bingo, Yeah,
by the Home of the Olympics. They come out really
high up the order. Do you remember we went to Athens,
didn't we? Dusty Ethens? And we went to this was

(00:53):
that the original? Yeah, you can go to the original,
like track the Home of the Olympics from eighteen ninety four.
You had the first modern Olympics and they yeah, they've
got the stadium set up there and it all kind
of happened in this one area. But despite them being
the home of the Olympics. They've never won a Winter
Olympics medal. Oh, Greece, not one. I've never been to

(01:15):
the northern parts of Greece, but surely there's some mountains
with some snow on them, some cold spots.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, or they would have just had to know, like
New Zealand, like you just have ice skaters and yeah,
well we've got snowy mountains and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
And the last time that Greece placed in the top
ten at the summer Summer Olympics nineteen oh four. Goodness,
since then, have never got it all downhill. It's all
been downhill, but not downhill skiing because they've never won
a Winter Olympics now. Yeah, so yeah, Greece, they just

(01:49):
and they not cracked the top ten since nineteen oh four.
They've not even come close. They mostly sit in the
twenties or did not rank. I feel a little bit embarrassing.
It's like something and not being great at it.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, it's not. Even when they had the Athens Olympics,
they didn't have like a bumper year.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
No, they've never They had a good year, but not
a bumper year. Didn't in the top ten because that
was two thousand and four. That's why there's a great
metro into Athens. Yeah, from the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I mean, they'll bankrupt the country and you get a
great metro, you get a great metro utilities.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, the city is afterwards that then they've got to
maintain that they couldn't even afford to build in the
first place.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
That's why we need a few more America's Cumps in
World Cups. Where we were just saying, they were we Yeah,
you get nice new things.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Because I saw a picture of like downtown Auckland before
the America's Cup and it was very different, and then
again before the Rugby World Cup.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
The Rugby World Couple, of course gave us when you'd
caught it. Yeah, just saying, if your city is struggling,
why not have a large scale international event that could
very well bankrupt the city. I could live it with
a couple of nice restaurants, yes.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
And some nice um plazas.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yes, a couple of lass is a lovely outdoor area,
some cobblestones and some planted boxes, some plant of boxes
with some hedges. Who is responsible for these hedges?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:06):
These Grizzelania are just dying. Were front and center. So
today's factor the day and the first of the Olympics
themed week is despite Greece being the home of the Olympics,
never won a Winter Olympics medal and havn't placed in
the top ten since the Summer Olympics of nineteen o
four