With the start of the Olympic Games comes the unveiling of the sports venues in Athens. Once the Opening Ceremony is over, the Olympic Stadium is open for business and all of the other venues will get their debut.    Judo and wrestling will be held in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall. The first seven days of the Olympics will feature judo, followed by eight days of wrestling.    All was quiet in Ana Liossia Olympic Hall just hours before its first competition, day one of judo on August 14. I was able to conduct a complete walk-through of the facility, along with judo press officer John Miller.    The venue is very convenient for the press, just a 14-minute drive by bus from the Main Press Center. It is also reportedly quite close to the Olympic Village, meaning the athletes should also be able to quickly get to their competition. There is a new highway that goes right out to that section of Athens, and the arena is just off that highway at one of the exits.    Currently, the venue is set up for judo, with two raised mats in the center of the hall. The venue is like one of those popular "Pit" layouts, with the competition area well below the seating areas. The seating rises straight up from the floor, allowing the fans to look straight down onto the mats.    There is one prominent color in the building - blue. The judo mats have a blue trim. The walls are in blue. All of the seats in the lower section is blue. The pattern is broken in the upper deck, where the seating is red.    When wrestling comes, they will extend the stage and add a third mat. Currently, the field of play for judo is developed. Athletes are staged at one end of the arena, compete on the raised mats, then leave through the opposite end via a mixed zone, where they speak with the media.    There is a warmup mat area underneath the stands on one side of the stadium, currently featuring three full sized judo mats. The staging area is near the warmup mats. Also on the ground floor, not far from the staging area, is a press interview room. There are locker rooms on the ground floor as well, scattered around the areasS near the warmup spots.    You would never know that there is a competition just a day away from the quiet in the facility. A few volunteers were moving things in place, such as the wall in front of the photographer area and the seats near the "head table."    There is a tremendous number of media seats on one side of the arena, almost filling the entire section. This will be needed for certain key days, such as parts of the judo and women's wrestling competition when Japanese stars will be competing, and perhaps on the days that stars such as Rulon Gardner are competing in wrestling.    There was a lone American in the facility, Scott Anderson of South Dakota, who is on the team running the scoreclocks for Swatch. He will be working both the judo and wrestling competitions.    The venue press manager is a pleasant Greek citizen, Kontos Sakis. He was ava ilable to show some of the media areas to us, but he had to leave in order to attend the Opening Ceremonies.    Currently, the venue operations office for judo is inside the building. The office for wrestling, which is manned by Greek wrestling leaders and the international federation FILA is outside the facility in a metal hut. Once judo is over, the wrestling office will be moved inside and replace the judo operations center.    The facility is brand new and will have a tremendous atmosphere for contact sports. When you take away the seats filled with media, there are not a large amount of seats in the facility. It seems like the kind of facility where exciting action will be rewarded with a loud crowd response.