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A Visit to the Birthplace of the Olympics

NPR | By Sylvia Poggioli
Published August 13, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT
Columns mark all that's left of the Temple of Zeus in Nemea, one of the original sites of the Olympics.
Jessica Goldstein, NPR News
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 foreign desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe and the Balkans.