There's still one group that loves the training pool for athletes at the former Olympic village in Athens.
Frogs. They sit on debris that floats on pool's murky waters.
Eight years after the 2004 Athens Games, many of the Olympic venues Greece built at great expense remain abandoned or rarely used. They are the focus of public anger as the country struggles through a fifth year of recession and nearly three years of a debt crisis that has sent poverty and unemployment soaring,
At the Athens venue for softball — a sport unknown in Greece and already out of the Summer Olympics — the occasional weed is all that remains on the dried-out field.
With no shortage of real beaches in Greece, the purpose-built beach volleyball stadium has seen minimal use.
The athletes village itself has fared somewhat better, turned into housing for workers.
— Elena Becatoros — Twitter http://twitter.com/ElenaBec
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