Olympian Obstacles; This year, the Summer Games return to where it all began. Greece has been waiting, but will it be ready?

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Byline: Mark Starr, With Toula Vlahou in Athens

On a recent press tour of what will be the site of this summer's Olympics, organizers proudly showed off Athens' central sports complex, where the glamour sports--track and field, swimming, basketball and gymnastics--will be competed. But reporters were kept outside its centerpiece, the Olympic Stadium, where there's a gaping hole in the floor and no sign yet of the $158 million steel-and-glass roof. It is not yet the glory that was Greece. That glory will be re-enacted next week when the torch is lit on the hallowed grounds at Olympia, where the ancient Games began almost 3,000 years ago. From there, the flame will be carried to the very stadium in Athens where, in 1896, the modern Games were born. Then the torch will undergo a...

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