Athens is kind of an excibition center.It host major events always.Which are the main events this city has hosted or is to host in the future?

from the top of my head.

Past:
Host of 1896 Olympic Games
Host of 1906 Olympic Games
European Athletics Championships 1982
Mediterranean Games 1991
Host of 2004 Olympic Games
Eurovision 2006

Future:

IAAF Super Grand Prix 2006
CL Final 2007

Basketball

World Championships (1998)
European Championships (1987 & 1995)
Euroleague Final (1985)
Final-4 (1993)
CupWinners' Cup Final (1989)

Volleyball - World Championships (1994)
European Championships (1995)
Teams European Cup Final-4 (1992 & 1993)
CupWinners' Cup Final-4 (1996)
Top Teams Cup Final-4 (2005)

Athletics - European Indoor Championships (1985)
Wrestling - World Cup (1988) and Championships (1999)
European Championships (1986)

Gymnastics - World Championships (1991), European Championships (1990)

Weightlifting - World Championships (1999)


And much more but thats all the time I have right now.



Future:
CL Final 2007


And in 1994 I believe we hosted the CL final.

Im sure there was also a Track and Field event in 1997. I cant remember the name.

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Past:
Host of 1906 Olympic Games


Athens didn't host the 1906 games. As a matter of fact, there were no 1906 Olympics. The 1904 games were held in St. Louis and the 1908 games were held in London.

A major event happening right now is Posidonia (http://www.posidonia-events.com/online/).

WORLD’S TOP SHIPPING SHOW MOVES TO NEW VENUE

Posidonia 2006, the 20th edition of the world’s most prestigious international shipping exhibition, will be held at a new and bigger venue this year, in a move dictated by the recent identification of structural safety issues at the Piraeus Exhibition Centre and the remedial action taken to support the building. This move will allow Posidonia 2006 to satisfy the increased demand for space by old and new exhibitors.

The biennial event, which attracted over 1,600 Greek and international exhibitors in 2004, will be held this year at the Hellenikon Exhibition Centre (HEC), at the site of the former Athens Airport, from June 5 – 9 and is expected to be the biggest in the show’s 37-year-long history.

Do business with the Greek shipping community...

Posidonia is sponsored by the Greek shipping community and is attended not just by the Greek owners but also their technical and operations management, keen to discuss the latest developments with exhibitors. Their fleets have evolved across sectors beyond their traditional strengths in energy and bulk trades, with a massive newbuilding programme and upgrading of older tonnage that present huge opportunities for shipbuilders, equipment and IT suppliers and technical, professional and financial services. Posidonia is renowned for the deals concluded by exhibitors during five days of serious business.

Only at Posidonia are exhibitors addressing shipowners:
operating a fleet of almost 4,000 vessels of 140 million dwt,
20% of world shipping,
the largest fleet under the control of any one national group
ordering in excess of 370 newbuildings worth US$14billion,
over 18% of the world total in value
accounting for some 30% of deals done in the world S&P market
involved in over US$30 billion of financing
spending some US$8 billion annually in fleet service and supply

hey you also forgot European Capital of Culture 1985, the 1st one, begun by Melina Merkouri

Athens didn't host the 1906 games. As a matter of fact, there were no 1906 Olympics. The 1904 games were held in St. Louis and the 1908 games were held in London.
What are you on about? Yes they did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_Summer_Olympics

My gosh.

The thing is, the 1906 Games, were the interim Games planned to be held in Athens in between the actual games in Athens. However, the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne does not recognise them as actual Games and so they are not counted.

However it should be noted that the 1906 interim Games in Athens actually saved the Olympics because they were going so badly.

Unfortunately tho, they are 'rejected' which is a shame because Athens could have been the only three times host (London by 2012 will be the only city to host the Games 3 times)

2 times have been: Athens (unofficially 3), Los Angeles, Paris and... yeah I think thats it

@giorgos: The IOC doesn't recognize the 1906 Olympics as a real Olympic games.

http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/index_uk.asp

Look on that list. The 1906 games aren't mentioned anywhere.

I would like to have Greece and among its cities Athens of course hosting the 2014 or 2018 World Football Championship, we could make it quite fine, by that year for example both,Thessaloniki and Heraklion will have their large new airports completed, as well as Athens airport will be upgraded to a 30 millions or even 40 millions supporting airterminal (10 days ago I watched on TV the manager of Eleyherios Benizelos talking about its upcoming upgrading up to 50 millions, of course if they say 50 I realistically reduce that amount to some 30 oe 40).

Also Thessaloniki will have 2 or 3 lines of Metro (the former by 2014 the later by 2018).

Our venues could have easily a renovation or even new ones could be built (we`ve already proved that we are good on that businness).

Our economy if we keep this way and of course if current international economic policies and exchange rates virtually keep its current tendency we are talking about a country of over 300billions or even 400billions GDP.

A completelly renewed highways system underway nowadays and day by day you can see the results. With Egnatia being the northern Greece perpendicular axis, Ionian highway Western Greece longitudinal axis and Ethniki Odos Central Greece longitudinal axis.

The railways service will service by 2018 with highspeed 250 or even 300 kms/h trains the 720 PATHE network (Patra-Athens-Thessaloniki) thus connecting the three largest cities in Greece with a TGV or Eurostar like service (the same axis is actually part of the central European longitudinal network Berlin-Munich-Vienna-Budapest-Belgrade-Thessaloniki-Athens). As well as having tributaries networks to other areas of the country serviced by state of the art ICE like rolling stock to areas like NW and NE Greece and even a southern railway axis in Crete from Chania to Sitia.

The Athens METRO network will be served by 150kms or even more from the current 91kms and adding to that the proastiakos and the light train services to be added in the following years the railways network of Attika is considered to reach the 500kms.

Southern Greece will be serviced by exceptional state of the art ports in the islands as well as the renewed airports of the aforementioned having as main hubs the trilogy Chania-Heraklion-Rhodos serving respectively Western, Central and Eastern southern Greece.

All the aforementioned items are currently under construction or under consideration (like the Benizelos imminent expansion, as it has a capacity of 16mil and is aproaching collapse in some 2-3 years) with some of them having completed their initial phases so none of the above is an onirical idyllic scenery.

Now, if something has been omitted or our engineers creativity rises to fantastical levels...well we could be talking about inter-islands bridges or tunnels in some cases like Kerkyra, Makronissos Kythera or Salamina. Having at last Athens and Thessaloniki with their own La Defense and Canary Wharf versions (there're already some talks for Athens on these issue, but don't ask me about that, GM is our guru on the subject).

Well, all of these could make us a great heaven for the 2018 World Cup Championship.....take it for granted.

@giorgos: The IOC doesn't recognize the 1906 Olympics as a real Olympic games.

http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/index_uk.asp

Look on that list. The 1906 games aren't mentioned anywhere.
I never said they where official.
That never means they didnt happen.

The IOC organised them anyway.

The World Rally Championship which is held every year. This year's just ended the other day...

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