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— Bill Toomey"The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens."
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.
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