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Olympic Games preview at 55 kg/121 lbs. in women’s freestyle

7/17/2004
Gary Abbott/USA Wrestling

Japan’s Saori Yoshida has won the last two World titles at this division and comes in as a heavy favorite. The two previous World titles at this weight were won by Seiko Yamamoto of Japan, who was beaten by Yoshida in the Japan Olympic Trials. Clearly, Japan has dominated this weight class and has high expectations for a gold medal in Athens.

The athlete she defeated in the world finals both years will not be competing, as Tina George of the United States was beaten in the U.S. Trials. Yoshida beat George by a comfortable margin in the 2002 World finals, but George closed the gap in 2003. The U.S. entry will be young Tela O’Donnell, who made her first U.S. team. O’Donnell has shown flashes of great wrestling, such as a victory at the Yarygin Tournament in Russia this year, but she has the least experience of the U.S. athletes. O’Donnell has a wide open, unexpected style, and showed her abilities by pinning George twice to make the Olympic team in Indianapolis.

Russia’s Natalia Golts was third at the 2002 and 2003 World Championships, and is one of the top talents in the world. Her loss at the 2003 World meet was to Yoshida, and she has scored wins against many of the other top competitors. Russia has many talents in this division, including Natalia Ivashko and Natalya Karamchakova, but most expect that Golts will be the choice for the Olympics.

China’s Sun Dongmei was fourth at the 2003 World Championships and was seventh in the 2001 World meet. China’s entry could be Yanzhi Gao, who captured the gold medal at the Olympic Testing Tournament in Athens, Greece this winter against a strong field of competitors. Yanzhi was third in the 1999 and 2001 World Championships at 51 kg/112.25 lbs. (a non-Olympic weight).

You have to go back to 1999 to find a non-Japanese World champion here, France’s Anna Gomis, who has four World titles to her credit. Gomis qualified to compete in the Olympics by winning the gold medal at the final Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Her seventh place finish at the 2003 World Championships makes her a bit of a longshot, especially this late in her career. France could choose to enter Vanessa Boubryemm, who competed at the 2004 European Championships and the 2002 World Championships at this division, and placed sixth at the 2001 World Championships down at 51 kg.

Sweden will be represented by 2002 World bronze medalist Ida Theres Karlsson, a veteran who can win when she is competing well. Karlsson won the 2004 European Championships, which should give her confidence going into Athens. Karlsson was second behind Gomis at the second Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Canada brings Tonya Verbeek, who beat veteran Jen Ryz in the Canadian Olympic Trials. Verbeek has paid her dues. She defeated American O’Donnell at the Titan Games, and also added a gold medal at the Canada Cup in preparation for the Olympics. She earned the final spot in the Olympics, taking third at the last Olympic Qualifying event. Verbeek was third at the Olympic Testing Event in Athens this winter, competing against a strong international field.

Another tough athlete from North America is Mabel Fonseca of Puerto Rico, who placed fifth at the 2003 World Championships. Fonseca is a former U.S. Nationals champion who chose to represent Puerto Rico on the international level. Fonseca was third in the 2002 World Championships at 59 kg/130 lbs., but chose to drop down to compete at an Olympic weight division.

Lee Na-Lae of Korea has become a top contender in this division. She placed second behind Icho at the 2004 Asian Championships, and won a gold medal at the first Olympic Qualification Tournament. Lee also boasts a fourth-place finish at the 2001 World Championships.

2001 World bronze medalist Tatiana Lazereva of Ukraine has also emerged as a tough competitor in this weight. She won a silver medal at the 2004 European Championships, and qualified for Athens by placing third at the first Olympic Qualification Tournament.

American wrestling fans may remember Diletta Giampicolla of Italy, who won a gold medal this year at the New York AC Christmas International, with wins over Goerge and O’Donnell. She trained with the U.S. athletes during parts of this season. She earned her trip to the Olympics with a silver medal at the first Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

The final qualifier for the weight class comes from host Greece, but is a serious competitor. Sofia Poumbouridou won a World gold medal at 51 kg/112.25 lbs. when the World Championships were held in Chalkida, Greece. She would love to win another medal competing on the home mats in Athens. Poumbouridou was fifth at the 2004 European Championships. Another option for Greece is Konstantina Tsimpanakou, who was fourth in the 2002 World Championships.

Nations qualified (alphabetically): Canada, China, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Korea, Puerto Rico, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, United States

Past gold medalists expected in field: Saori Yoshida of Japan (2003, 2002), Sofia Poumbouridou of Greece (2002), Anna Gomis of France (1999, 1997, 1996, 1993)

Top World-level placement for Tela O’Donnell: first U.S. team

55 kg/121 lbs. - Women
1st at 2003 World Championships – Japan (Saori Yoshida)
2nd at 2003 World Championships – United States (Tela O’Donnell)
3rd at 2003 World Championships – Russia (Natalia Golts or Natalya Ivashko)
4th at 2003 World Championships – China (Sun Dongmei or Yanzhi Gao)
5th at 2003 World Championships – Puerto Rico (Mabel Fonseca)
Host Nation entry – Greece (Sofia Poumpouridou or Konstantina Tsimpanakou)
1st at Olympic Qualifier #1 – Korea (Lee Na-Lae)
2nd at Olympic Qualifier #1– Italy (Diletta Giampiccolo)
3rd at Olympic Qualifier #1 –Ukraine (Tatiana Lazareva)
1st at Olympic Qualifier #2 – France (Anna Gomis or Vanessa Boubryemm)
2nd at Olympic Qualifier #2 –Sweden (Ida-Theres Karlsson)
3rd at Olympic Qualifier #2 –Canada (Tonya Verbeek)

RECENT WORLD RESULTS

2003 World Championship results
55 kg/121 lbs. – Gold – Saori Yoshida (Japan) dec. Tina George (United States), 5-2; Bronze – Natalia Golts (Russia) dec. Sun Dongmei (China), 4-0; 5th – Mabel Fonseca (Puerto Rico); 6th – Jennifer Ryz (Canada); 7th – Anna Gomis (France); 8th – Marzi Andrade (Venezuela); 9th – Monika Michalik (Poland); 10th – Tatyana Lazareya (Ukraine)

2002 World Championships results
121 - 1st - Saori Yoshida (Japan) dec. Tina George (USA), 10-4; 3rd - Ida Theres Karlsson (Sweden) dec. Konstantina Tsibanakou (Greece), 7-1; 5th - Jen Ryz (Canada); 6th - Kitti Godo (Hungary); 7th - Monika Michalik (Poland); 8th - Viktoria Zagainova (Russia); 9th - Nadine Tokar (Switzerland); 10th - Isabelle Sambou (Senegal)

2001 World Championships results
56 kg/123.25 lbs. - Gold - Seiko Yamamoto (Japan) dec. Liubov Volosova (Russia), 4-1; Bronze - Tetiana Lazarova (Ukraine) dec. Lee Na Lae (Korea), 5-2; 5th - Sara Eriksson (Sweden); 6th - Yildirim Zeynep (Turkey); 7th - Sun Dongmei (China); 8th - Gudrun Hoie (Norway); 9th - Anna Gomis (France); 10th - Yoselin Rojas (Venezuela)

2000 World Championships results
56 kg/123.25 lbs. - Gold - Seiko Yamamoto (Japan); Silver - Tatiana Lazareva (Ukraine); Bronze - Jennifer Ryz (Canada); 4th - Salma Ferchichi (Tunisia); 5th - Mabel Fonseca (Puerto Rico); 6th - Sara Eriksson (Sweden); 7th - Yulianny Orellana (Venezuela); 8th - Minerva Montero (Spain); 9th - Kostantina Katerina Tsibanakou (Greece); 10th - Natalja Ivachko (Russia)

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Lock Haven University grad one of first women Olympic wrestlers

JENNIFER KAY 7/17/04

Associated Press

With an older brother who liked to pin her down, Sara McMann learned early how to deal with bigger and stronger wrestlers.

"I was kind of the beat-up dummy a lot of the time," said McMann, the youngest of three children.

"It ended up, he blocked me with a move I didn't know and held me down until I screamed. Then he let me go and I ran. That's what I knew about wrestling until I started competing in high school," she said.

She continued wrestling with boys through college, but in August she advances to the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, with the girls. McMann, who grew up in Lock Haven, Pa., is one of four U.S. women trying for the first gold medal in women's wrestling since it was accepted as an Olympic sport two years ago.

By the time McMann wanted to compete in ninth grade, her family had moved to North Carolina.

McDowell High School in Marion, N.C., wasn't ready for a girl to make the wrestling team. Some boys wouldn't wrestle McMann, or picked on her teammates for training with a girl.

That attitude doesn't surprise Olympic coach Tricia Saunders. Though well-established at the international level, women's wrestling lags behind in the United States.

"People here don't understand it's a sport for both sexes," Saunders said. "It's like we don't understand that men play field hockey in international divisions."

But by McMann's junior year, her coach started to brag about her skills: She had figured out how to hold her own against bigger and stronger opponents.

"I tried to be pretty technical to make up for the strength difference. Whenever my coach was teaching a move he could count on my hand being raised with a question, 'Now, is your hip over here?' or 'What makes or breaks this move?'" said McMann in a phone interview from Colorado Springs, Colo., where she trains with the national team.

As a freshman, McMann joined the University of Minnesota-Morris women's wrestling team. She missed being the underdog in bruising practices with boys. "Wrestling girls was more like a break at first. I wanted to wrestle with guys," she said.

McMann transferred to Lock Haven University to be near family and train with the Division I men's wrestling team. The charismatic, confident theater major quickly won over her male teammates, Lock Haven head coach Rocky Bonomo said. (It helped that the college guys were "more mature" than her high school opponents, McMann said.)

"She earned their respect. It was tough at times, and she would get beat up at practice," Bonomo said, "but those guys had to watch themselves because if they didn't, Sara would score. We couldn't break Sara, she was just so tough."

Before she graduated in 2002, McMann was ranked No. 1 nationally in her women's weight class and beat a male college wrestler at the annual Penn State Open wrestling tournament.

McMann, who is 5-foot-6, will compete in the 138 3/4-pound weight class at the Olympics. Saunders said McMann's speed, athleticism and power give her a good chance at a gold medal.

The U.S. team knows many of the opponents they'll face next month from previous international matches, particularly top-ranked Japan. Japan edged the U.S. women for team honors at the World Freestyle Championships in September, with McMann losing the 63 kilogram title to Japan's Kaori Icho in overtime. But the American team defeated the Japanese a month later in the women's World Cup.

"Second place isn't good enough for us," McMann said. "We know what we can do. We've beat all these people before at previous matches."

NOTES: Another Pennsylvania wrestling standout, Kerry McCoy, will compete in the men's 264 1/2-pound weight class for the United States. McCoy, 29, placed second at the World Freestyle Championships in September and hopes to do better than his fifth-place finish at the 2000 games in Sydney. McCoy, who coaches wrestling at Lehigh University, said recently this year will most likely be his last in competition.

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Homer's heroes
Town thrilled to send Borgman, O'Donnell to Athens

By TOM KIZZIA
Anchorage Daily News(Published: July 18, 2004)

HOMER -- "Everybody asks if I know you," Stacey Borgman said to Tela O'Donnell last week.

Homer is almost certainly the smallest town in America to have two Olympic athletes this year, but the fact is, they've never met. Even last week, when O'Donnell's visit home triggered an Olympics celebration at the Elks Hall, Borgman was only there via speaker phone.

The Homer pair are likely to meet in Athens next month, where Borgman, 29, will be rowing in the women's lightweight double sculls event, and O'Donnell, 22, will be one of four U.S. competitors in the first-ever women's wrestling competition.

"You've renamed Homer on the bumper stickers," the girls middle-school coach, Deb Lowney, said last Monday when more than 200 people turned out for a community potluck to fete their two homegrown stars.

The young women share more than a ZIP code and an airplane ticket for Athens. They went to the same small grade school, McNeil Canyon Elementary in the hills east of town, and both were sent into the world by determined single mothers.

For all the town's vaunted closeness, however, Borgman was gone from high school by the time O'Donnell, in middle school, started badgering the school board for permission to wrestle with the boys team.

Last week, Borgman was still training in New Jersey and preparing to leave soon for a final pre-Olympic camp in Bulgaria.

O'Donnell was in Homer for the first time in several years, taking five days off to visit with her mother and friends, camping and climbing across Kachemak Bay and riding her horse, Wingo.

At the town's celebratory gathering, she squirmed shyly in her chair on a stage at the Elks Hall during a standing ovation, beaming the 90-megawatt smile that has already captured the attention of network television cameras.

"This community is sooooo amazing," she told the crowd.

Homer dignitaries rose to ask: How many small towns of 5,000 can claim two athletes from among the 500-plus U.S. delegation? The answer appears to be none. The U.S. Olympic Committee's official roster, still riddled with data gaps last week, showed nowhere close.

The athletes and their moms were ready to give lots of credit to Homer and its people. Many residents at the celebration were hard-pressed, however, to say what might have propelled the pair out of Homer, which drolly refers to itself as a "cosmic hamlet."

No one was ready to attribute the success to raising kids on a beatific view or a diet of sport-caught halibut. Nor could they cite an overweening local interest in athletics, in a place where the local school board almost eliminated extra-curricular sports this year to save money.

Most people pointed to tough, rustic lifestyles in early childhood and the remarkable work ethic of the two athletes themselves -- though they added that Homer is a place where big dreams are given room to grow. Several gave the example of the annual Jubilee talent show, where student musicians spread their wings in front of enthusiastic sold-out crowds. The event is stage-managed every year by Stacey Borgman's mother, Diane Borgman.

"We raise our kids to think they can follow their dreams," Homer Mayor Jack Cushing said.

But it was Lowney, the former middle-school coach, who subtly noted that a small-town upbringing can also mean shortened horizons.

"These two were not limited by becoming the best in their class. For these two kids, that wasn't enough," Lowney told the gathering. "Their quest was to become the best they could be."

RESILIENCE AFTER A TRAGIC LOSS

Diane Borgman and her husband, Tony, were teaching in the Seward Peninsula village of Buckland when Stacey was ready to be born in 1975. She was flown out to the hospital in Kotzebue.

"It was one of those deals where they light the oil pots along the runway to get you out and hope you don't have the baby on the plane," Diane Borgman recalled last week.

The Borgmans spent 13 years teaching in the Bush, in Noatak, Noorvik, Kotzebue and Ouzinkie, before settling in Homer in 1983, where Diane was principal at McNeil Canyon Elementary for eight years. A second daughter, Corey, went on from Homer to play basketball at Georgetown.

In 1988, when Stacey was 13, Tony Borgman died of an aneurism. Diane's family urged her to leave Alaska, but she stayed on amid an upwelling of community support. Friends say Stacey emerged from the crisis with a new resiliency and competitiveness.

"I held her in awe as I watched her continue to pursue her goals in swimming despite the death of her father," said Flo Larsen, a high school teacher whom Diane called a surrogate parent.

SENSE OF HOMER ON THE HARLEM

Stacey had quit swimming by the time she reached New York's Columbia University. The idea of rowing crew came from her mother, who says she considers athletics and art to be vital parts of education.

"I was like, well, whatever, Mom," Stacey recalled. "She just kept on me about it, for some unknown reason."

In a short while, Stacey was swept up in the sport, drawn at first to those quiet practice hours on the Harlem River.

"There was something about getting up very early in the morning before everyone was up and being on the water," Borgman recalled. "It gave me a sense of home."

She continued to compete with the national team after college and is currently on a two-year leave after finishing her first year of law school. She praised her mother for never telling her to quit playing around and get a job.

"It's a grueling sport. I had no idea what I was encouraging her to be in," Diane Borgman told the gathering last week. "I had second thoughts when she explained to me that their feet were tied into the boat."

SMILES ON THE MAT

Tela O'Donnell's mother, Claire, was a Paris-trained mime living in Chicago whose life changed course at age 37 when she visited Homer as a touring artist. She bought land in the deep woods below East Road and set about building a log cabin by herself with a block and tackle.

Tela grew up wrestling sheep and riding bareback. She emerged from the woods with a sunny personality and no ball-handling skills for middle school sports.

Wrestling, she says, became a way of improving herself, not a competition with others. By high school, she was winning national competitions, and in her senior year she transferred to Nikiski High School to join a more vigorous wrestling program.

An intimidating scowl is a standard part of most wrestlers' arsenals, but O'Donnell has drawn attention for actually smiling on the mats. The better she is doing, she says, the bigger her smile.

O'Donnell was wearing a big smile last week during her visit back to Homer. The moment she arrived, she said, she realized how much her spirit feasted on the place she grew up. That's why her coaches encouraged her to go home, despite the physical risks of a Tela-style visit to Homer.

(In fact, while camping on a climb of Poot Peak with a friend, O'Donnell had a cooking accident and burned her face with hot soup. She was fine, she later insisted.)

"You can get the physical training down, but you also have to take care of the spirit," O'Donnell said during a brief chat at her mother's cabin.

At the top level of skill in wrestling, where she now competes, athletes are very close in physical abilities, she said.

Each one is looking for something special, "that little bit extra" -- the unexpected move, the additional days of training.

O'Donnell's edge, the thing that carried her to her surprising victory in the Olympic trials, was her spirit.

"It's why I did so well," she said, moments before riding away to the beach on Wingo, bareback.

HOMETOWN GENEROSITY

Both Olympic athletes said they've drawn strength from the support of people in Homer.

Stacey Borgman recalls how two commercial fishermen she'd gotten to know through summer processing jobs on the Homer Spit came through when she started training for the national team and needed to buy her own boat. She just didn't have the $5,000. They bought a new boat for her.

"I was blown away. I just started crying," she recalled.

She felt buoyed up again when she visited Homer briefly last fall after a tough year competitively.

"Never mind the fact that I would or wouldn't be in the Olympics. Everyone just thought it was a great thing to be doing," she said. "I was trying to follow my passion and my love, and it filled me up. I came back from home with this renewed spirit."

Their mothers agree.

Claire O'Donnell told the Homer celebration that her daughter had been bowled over by the support she saw local wrestlers get on a trip to Russia last year. How great it would be to wrestle in a place like that, she'd said. And now, Tela was getting that reception in Homer, her mother said.

"You have no idea how important this is to the success she's going to have in Athens," Claire O'Donnell said.

In her turn to speak, Diane Borgman compared the backing for Stacey from friends and neighbors to the year of her husband's death.

"This community encircled us with love and care in a way that I never knew was possible," Diane Borgman said. "And you're doing it again."

Daily News reporter Tom Kizzia can be reached at tkizzia@adn.com or 1-907-235-4244.

HOMER'S ROAD TO ATHENS: Short biographies and competition dates for Stacey Borgman and Tela O'Donnell:

Stacey Borgman, 29
Born in Kotzebue, raised in Homer, graduated from Homer High School in 1993. Stats: 5-foot-9, 130 pounds Achievements: Started rowing at Columbia University; five-year member of U.S. national team; winner of nine national titles; teamed by coach with top-ranked Lisa Schlenker in June after Borgman and her former partner beat Schlenker’s lightweight double scull in preliminary trials this year. Schlenker and Borgman won the Olympic trials June 30 in New Jersey to gain a place on the U.S. delegation.
Lightweight double sculls rowing schedule in Athens:
Aug. 15, preliminary heats; Aug. 17, repechages ; Aug. 19, semifinals; Aug. 21, finals.

Tela O’Donnell, 22
Born and raised in Homer, graduated from Nikiski High School in 2001. Stats: 5-foot-4, 121 pounds (name is pronounced “Tayla”) Achievements: Finished sixth at state championships in 2000, wrestling boys in the 119-pound class; national champion at 55 kg (121 pounds) in 2003; beat seven wrestlers for the chance to take on arch-rival Tina George in Indianapolis in May, then pinned George twice in a best-of-three set to clinch an Olympic spot.
55-kg competition schedule in Athens:
Aug. 22, pool elimination matches; Aug. 23, semifinals and finals.

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Going to the Mat

July 20, 2004

Twenty-five years ago, when Korea's sports establishment did not have much of a history or money, wrestling became the international competition of choice because it was cheap to train athletes. With no need for elaborate facilities, all that was required was a mat and the will to win.
Until 1980, Korea had participated in just eight Olympic events. Whatever limited success it had on the international stage had come in wrestling, boxing or judo. Korea remains a contending force in the sport to this day.
The peninsula's first wrestling medal was won at the 1964 Tokyo Games when Jang Chang-seon took a silver medal in the 62-kilogram freestyle bout. The first gold medal came at the 1976 Montreal Games as Yang Jeong-mo clinched the featherweight class. It was also the country's second gold in 40 years since the 1936 Berlin Games.
At the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, Korea took home two gold medals, one silver, and five bronze medals in wrestling. It marked the year when Korea emerged as a force in the sport on the world stage. Since then, the country has won six more golds, eight more silvers and seven bronze medals.
Bae Chang-geun, the Olympic wrestling team's coach, points to lower body strength as the Korean advantage.
"Our training regime has always focused on building strong legs and lower body," said the coach. "It's the beginning of everything and the results speak for themselves."
Wrestling was one of the original events in the ancient Olympic Games, and has been included in the Olympic modern games since their beginning in 1896. Wrestling has two styles: Greco-Roman and freestyle. In the Greco-Roman style, holds are allowed from the waist up, while in freestyle holds are allowed on the whole body. Matches in both styles consist of two three-minute parts, with a 30-second interval.
Before its breakup in the early 1990s, the Soviet Union dominated the international wrestling scene. Today, Russian athletes and athletes from the former satellite states of the Soviet Union are still the strongest competitors in wrestling. At the 2000 Sydney Games, out of eight weight classes for the Greco-Roman style two were won by Russia while out of eight available golds in freestyle, four went to Russia.
"It has always been like this," said Mr. Bae. "Russian and East European countries are a dominant force in wrestling. For other countries it's always a question of how many medals can be wrestled from them."
For the Athens Games, Korea is aiming for two gold medals.
The coach said he thinks that Mun Ui-jae has a chance to win a gold medal in the freestyle 84-kilogram weight class. Russia, Cuba and the United States are seen as the obstacles. Kim In-seob, 31, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Games despite an injury, is another candidate the wrestling team has high hopes for in the 66 kilogram Greco-Roman style. "His tackling skills are the best. His age is about the only thing that's worrying me. Wrestling requires a lot of stamina and he has to compete with younger guys," the coach added.
This year marks the debut of women's wrestling at the Olympics. Lee Na-rae is the country's first female to try to win a medal. Originally a judo athlete, Lee studied wrestling in 1998 and then switched to wrestling full-time in January 2002, becoming a member of the Pyeongchang provincial amateur team. Despite her relatively short experience in the sport, she won the silver medal at the 2002 Asian games. While women's wrestling was introduced only four years ago on the peninsula, neighboring Japan started to groom its athletes 20 years ago.
"Just like Lee Na-rae we have many former judo athletes trying their hand for the first time. So the basic physical stamina is there. It's just a matter of developing the right skills," said Mr. Bae.
Lee's biggest obstacle at Athens is thought to be Saori Yoshida from Japan, to whom she lost in the final round at the Asian Games. In May, the two met again at the Asian World Championship. Lee lost again but the score was much closer.
"I would like to become the first female in the country to win a gold in wrestling. I would make history then. That's what I really want to do, make history," said Lee, who has long been practicing with men one weight class lower because she could not find female opponents who were a challenge.
"As I train with stronger men, I definitely get more out of my training," she said. "I just hope the results at the Olympics will show it."
Besides Japan, China and Russia are thought to stand in Lee's path to a medal.
"Her judo skills work both ways," said Mr. Bae. "At the right moment they are a great asset but one cannot forget that she is going up against athletes who have trained for a much longer time than her."
Han Myeong-woo, an official with the Korea Wrestling Federation, points out that home field advantage should give Greece an enormous boost. "They are not bad wrestlers and had some success in the past. Ignoring them would be a big mistake," Mr. Han said. Although Greece only managed to win one gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Games in the Greco-Roman style with Stelios Migiakis, wrestling is a very popular sport in Greece, and since 1980, Greece has shown consistency, winning four bronze medals and one silver medal.
With the games back in the land where they started and the home crowd firmly entrenched behind them, the Greeks are certainly a group to keep an eye on.
At the Athens Games, wrestling is scheduled to take place at the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall, which has a seating capacity of 9,150 spectators. The competition runs from Aug. 22 to Aug. 29.