August 21, 2022
FEATURED, Sports
One athlete was killed and another was seriously injured when a lightning struck participants of the Six Peaks Night Mountain Race on mountain Falakro in northern Greece in the early hours of Sunday. A third athlete survived with hypothermia, while the fourth athlete in the group, a woman, escaped the …
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August 20, 2022
FEATURED, Sports
Antigoni Ntrismpioti managed another miracle at the European championships in Munich: she won a second gold medal after finishing first at the 20km Walk Race on Saturday morning. With 1:29:03 Ntrismpioti broke her won personal record. She started the race relatively slow and speeded up after the 11th kilometer. On …
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August 17, 2022
Sports
Race walker Antigoni Ntrismpioti and long jumper Miltos Tentoglou won gold medals at the European Championships Munich 2022 on Tuesday. Champion of Tokyo Olympics Miltiadis (Miltos) Tentoglou broke long jump records on Tuesday. Tentoglou achieved a Championship Record of 8.52m followed by Jacob Fincham-Dukes from Britain who came second with …
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May 22, 2022
Sports
Greek police arrested 17 people and charged them for the clashes during the PAO-PAOK football match for the Greek Cup Final in and outside the OAKA stadium on Saturday night. The PAO-PAOK game kickoff was delayed for 20 minutes due to the clashes where PAOK fans attacked PAO fans, hurled …
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April 12, 2022
FEATURED, Sports
Leading Greek mountaineer Antonis Sykaris has died in the Himalayas, a post on his instagram account announced on Tuesday morning. “Unfortunately the worst that could happen during a mountaineering expedition happened,” the post said. “It’s the worst thing that can happen to a mountaineering expedition. Antonis lost his life while …
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February 28, 2022
Economy, Sports
Greece’s biggest gaming firm OPAP on Monday halted betting on Russian sport events in solidarity with Ukraine where a Russian invasion continued for a fifth day. OPAP said it has stopped offering betting on any match related to Russian competitions, including football, basketball and volleyball, either online or through its …
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February 21, 2022
Sports
Soccer supporters’ clubs will be suspended for five months and sentences for fans’ violence will be increased thus without parole, Greece announced on Monday as part of a crackdown triggered by the murder of a 19-year-old man who was stabbed and beaten to death by soccer hooligans in the northern …
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January 8, 2022
FEATURED, Sports
Deputy Minister for Sports Lefteris Avgenakis submitted to the public prosecutor’s officer the complaints filed by 26 athletes of the Greek Gymnastics Federation who fell victims of sexual harassment. A clever move before the crimes would be written off due to time statute, if only the names of the victims …
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January 7, 2022
Sports
Stefanos Tsitsipas has reportedly been vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine against Covid-19 and will be able to take part in the Australian open, the correspondent of Greece’s state broadcaster ERT in Melbourne reported on Friday noon local time. The correspondent reported that Tsitsipas, according to sources from his …
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November 25, 2021
Sports
Dozens of fans -among them 27 minors- of Panaathinaikos women’s volleyball team were led before a prosecutor after they were found in in possession of weapons ranging from firebombs to axes, shovels and screwdrivers, the Greek police said on Thursday. picture via Greek Police A day earlier, on Wednesday, 57 …
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November 14, 2021
FEATURED, Sports
With 90 years on his shoulders but feet as light as wings, Stelios Prassas is the oldest athlete who finished the 38. Athens Marathon on Sunday. His grandchildren and his family were waiting for him at the Panathinaic Staidum and cheered when the oldest participatant arrived at the Finish. Together …
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November 14, 2021
Sports
Greek runner Costas Gelaouzos won the 38th Athens Marathon in 2 hours 16 minutes 49 seconds on Sunday leading a sweep of the podium places by home competitors.The race resumed this year after a hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic. TheGreek athlete broke the 17-year national record. After the …
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November 12, 2021
FEATURED, Sports
The 38th Athens Authentic Marathon will be held on the weekend of November 13-14, 2021. A total of 30,000 runners have registered so far, including 10,000 in the main race of 42.195 km race from Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium. The remaining registered participants will run for the 10- and …
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October 21, 2021
FEATURED, Sports
Olympics gold medalist, the “lord of the Rings” Lefteris Pretounias shocked the #MeToo movement in Greece on Thursday when he expressed doubt over denounced incidents of sexual abuse in the field of sports. He said that he was not sure “if there were incidents of sexual abuse in the field …
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October 5, 2021
FEATURED, Sports
Greek Police in Thessaloniki are investigating the suspected murder of a local soccer player who was found dead in his car at the marina of Nea Krini in the suburb of Kalamaria on Tuesday morning. Nikos Tsoumanis, 30, was found with three tire ups around his neck, ethnos newspaper reported. …
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September 20, 2021
Sports
A month after sparking controversy by saying he would only get the Covid-19 vaccine if it became mandatory to compete in tennis, world number three Stefanos Tsitsipas has said he plans to receive the jab later in 2021. “It will certainly happen this year,” Tsitsipas said in an interview with …
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September 10, 2021
Sports
The EKO Acropolis Rally 2021 ‘Rally of Gods’ kicked off in central Athens on Thursday for the first time since 2013. A special 980m course was set up in the streets around Syntagma Square, and it was launched by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. #wrc is official started!!#RallyofGods #rallyacropolis2021 #rallyacropolis #Greece …
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September 9, 2021
Sports
Greek tennis player Maria Sakkari has risen to number 13 in the world, a record WTA ranking for Greek women’s tennis, after defeating number four seed Karolina Pliskova in two straight sets to reach the semi-finals in the US Open. In an impressive game on Wednesday, Sakkari showed command of …
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September 2, 2021
Sports
A Portuguese soccer player accused of raping a 17-year-old girl in Athens last weekend was released from pretrial custody on Thursday after a court ordered him to pay 10,000 euros in bail but attached no additional terms. Ruben Semedo, 27, testified to an investigating magistrate and a prosecutor for more …
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August 30, 2021
Sports
A well-known Portuguese football player at a team of the Greek Super League, was brought before a public prosecutor on Monday on charges of raping a 17-year-old girl. Olympiakos FC defender Ruben Semedo was arrested and brought before a public prosecutor on Monday on charges of raping a 17-year-old girl. …
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