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Encyclopedia > Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Sports Complex

The Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Sports Complex is a complex consisting of two indoor arenas and a beach volleyball stadium that hosted Handball, Taekwondo, and Volleyball events at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The complex is located in Faliro, not far from the port of Piraeus.


The complex consists of the following venues:

External link

  • Athens 2004 website (http://www.athens2004.com/en/Venues/venues?oid=fb7b16aaffc1cf00VgnVCMServer28130b0aRCRD)

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Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (355 words)
The Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Sports Complex is a complex consisting of two indoor arenas and a beach volleyball stadium that hosted Handball, Taekwondo, and Volleyball events at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
The Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre is a stadium in Faliro that hosted the beach volleyball competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
The Sports Pavilion is an indoor arena in Faliro, near Piraeus, Greece.
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By July/August 2004, all venues were delivered: in August, the Olympic Stadium was officially completed and opened, joined or preceded by the official completion and openings of other venues within the Athens Olympic Sports Complex (OAKA), and the sports complexes in Faliro and Helliniko.
Officially there were 28 sports as swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo are classified by the IOC as disciplines within the sport of aquatics, and wheelchair racing was a demonstration sport.
The demonstration sport of wheelchair racing was a joint Olympic/Paralympic event, allowing a Paralympic event to occur within the Olympics, and for the future, opening up the wheelchair race to the able-bodied.
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