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Summer Olympic Scene: Empty Bleachers in Athens

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to NPR's Sylvia Poggioli about the overall mood on the streets of Athens, and asks why the bleachers aren't packed for events at the Summer Olympic Games.

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Alex Chadwick
For more than 30 years, Alex Chadwick has been bringing the world to NPR listeners as an NPR News producer, program host and currently senior correspondent. He's reported from every continent except Antarctica.
Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli's on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.
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