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The archetect who is on Greek TV and internationa TV with the largest amount of criticism is PO'd because he was specifically overlooked. It is also because he is a communist.

(they also pissed off many small operators by brining in big out of country construction firms. Idiots did not realize maintainace will be a issue to keep the new infrastructure up.)

The use of archelogy has been used by commies to stiffle any form of progress on the 5000 year old city.

Even building the shiny new metro system was subject to constant scrutiny. The tunels would be dug, stop excavate, catalog, extract artifacts, and then dig and repeat.

The games were started in 776 BC. When these games were assigned to greece it was six years ago. This was seen by the socialists as a favotism project, by the conservatives as a massive upgrade of greece project. Perhaps if it was done today there would be a different outcome however the games were given. (Atlanta's effort to skunk the games from Greece back to atlanta was a national news story.)

So far the upgrades in highways and airports have appeared and are no in use.