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A Visit to the Birthplace of the Olympics

By Sylvia Poggioli
Published August 12, 2004 at 9:00 PM PDT
This story was published more than 21 years ago.
Columns mark all that's left of the Temple of Zeus in Nemea, one of the original sites of the Olympics.
Columns mark all that's left of the Temple of Zeus in Nemea, one of the original sites of the Olympics.

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Sylvia Poggioli
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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