Defending the construction, Greek Olympic organizers insisted that Marathon was hardly a pristine landscape.
The $35,000 raised so far falls well short of construction needs, but organizers hope the campaign will pressure a parliamentary commission to release $24 million the agency says it needs to accommodate a greatly expanded staff.
They took place amid fears of global terror and jokes about lax construction as the organizers planted trees, installed seats and paved the marathon road just days before the opening ceremony.
At the time, the I.O.C. warned Athens organizers that construction deadlines were very tight and that additional delays would endanger the Games.
She has been a construction worker and an organizer in the carpenters' union for 22 years, and there was a time, she said, that "if a woman set down her hard hat, she could pick it up to find a male co-worker had used it as a toilet".
The Rosebud Sioux and other Sioux tribes may establish protest camps near the construction route, according to Indigenous Environmental Network organizer Dallas Goldtooth.
In addition to his real estate and construction ventures, Swisher was an organizer and secretary of the Royalty Oil Company, which own mining rights to approximately 16000 acre of prospective oil lands throughout the southern and southwestern United States.
The organizers have repeatedly missed construction deadlines, and much of the work on stadiums, roads and other infrastructure did not begin in earnest until 2008, roughly five years after the city won the bid for the event.
At this time, few Chicagoans had even heard of Point du Sable and the fair's organizers presented the 1803 construction of Fort Dearborn as the city's historical beginning.
In the city's original bid, organizers promised that all major construction of playing fields and arenas would be completed by 2007.
