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The Champions League and Europa League group draws will be held in Athens in October, government spokesperson Stelios Petsas announced on Wednesday. He added that the awards for top football players of the year would also take place there as well. “The UEFA executive committee unanimously decided that the group …

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Armed with stones, sticks and knives hooligans attacked the home of Dimitris Giannakopoulos on Wednesday evening, a day after the owner of Panathinaikos BC announced that he sells the basketball club for 25 million euros. The hooligans, around 100 people on 50 motorbikes arrived at Giannakopoulos’ home in Kifissia suburb …

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Owner of Panathinaikos Basketball Club, Dimitris Giannakopoulos announced on Tuesday that that he is selling Panathinaikos BC. The price is 25,000,000 euros. At the same time, he announced that he is stepping down from the BC. Panathinaikos Athens owner Dimitris Giannakopoulos announced that the club is up for sale for a …

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Giannis Antetokounmpo and his family donated 10,000 surgical masks for the coronavirus pandemic to Zografou, the suburb east of Athens where he started playing basketball. Giannis, Thanassis, Kostas, Alex and their mother said they wanted to acknowledge the influence of the city’s sports team, Filathlitikos, on the path of ‘the …

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The coronavirus has “extinguished” the Olympic Flame: the Greek Olympic Committee decided on Friday to suspend the famous Torch Relay “in the interest of public health.” The decision was taken just hours after thousands of Greeks defied the preventive measures and flocked to watch Hollywood star Gerard Butler lighting his …

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The Olympic flame started its trip to Tokyo after its lighting at the stadium in the archaeological site at Ancient Olympia. Due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country, speactactors were excluded form the event and around 100 people were able to attent it. The event took place in the …

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Businessman Vangelis Marinakis, owner of FC Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest, revealed on Tueday that he has been tested positive on coronavirus.In posts on his social media accounts, Marinakis, wrote: “The well-known virus has ‘visited’ me and I felt obliged to make this public. I feel good as I take all …

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The Lighting Ceremony of the Olympic Flame will be held without the presence of spectators, the Hellenic Olympic Committee said on Monday. The Committee rejected a postponement request by the Olympia Municipality. The Ceremony is scheduled to take place in Ancient Olympia, Peloponnese, on Thursday, March 12. In a statement …

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For Giannis Antetokounmpo this is one of the happiest times in his life: the arrival of son Liam Charles. He shares the precious moments with his fans, posting pictures of the baby on his social media accounts. The NBA star became father for the first time on Monday and announced …

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For the first time, Milwaukee Bucks player and NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo became father to a son on Monday. His long-time girlfriend, Mariah Riddlesprigger, gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Yhe new parents named their son Liam Charles Overwhelmed with happiness, the “Greek Freak” posted a picture of the …

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Milwaukee Bucks player Thanasis Antetokounmpo used a rare opportunity to show off his dancing skills while in Paris. He met with French street performer Salif Gueye, a 22-year-old dancer performer who owes his fame solely to exposure on the internet. The two shared a precious moment. Thanasis asked Salif some …

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The sudden death of NBA legend “Black Mamba” Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash on Sunday shocked not only his family, his friends, colleagues and supporters in the US. The shock spread like a wildfire all over the world. The wave of  grief grabbed also Greek athletes who used the …

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For the second time in a day, Greek swimmer, Andreas Vazaios, won a medal at the 25th European Swimming Pool Championship in Glasgow. Half an hour after winning the bronze medal in the 100m mix individual medley, he won the gold medal in the 200m butterfly. Andreas Vazaios gets his …

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Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas won his first major international title on Sunday by defeating Austria’s Dominic Thiem in the 2019 NITTO ATP Final 2-1 sets in London. 21-year-old Tsitsipas is the first Greek player to win the trophy and the youngest finalist on his ATP Finals debut since Hall …

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A British endurance athlete has become he first person to run the length of a marathon in every country in the world after completing the Athens Marathon. Exactly 694 days after he set off on his mission to run the famous distance in all 196 UN-recognised countries in January 2018, …

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John Kipkorir Komen from Kenya is the winner of the 37th Authentic Athens Marathon in Athens on Sunday. 42-year-old Komen managed the distance of    km in 2:16:34. The record for Athens’ Marathon is 2:10:37. Second to finish was Felician Mouhitira also from Kenya with 2: 16.43 and third Greek Konstantinos …

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American basketball coach Rick Pitino will coach Greece’s national team, the Hellenic Basketball Federation announced on Friday. In a statement, the federation’s chief Giorgos Vassilakopoulos said that Pitino agreed to coach the Greek national team as it strives to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Details of Pitino’s new …

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Greek Police has arrested one man as one of the hooligans who attacked fans of Bayern Munich, injuring four of them on Tuesday evening. The 31-year-old man reportedly belongs to the organized fans of Olympiacos. According to Alpha TV, the man was among the group of some 60 hooligans who …

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The starting rounds in the championship of England has ended. Many Premier League results became real surprises for the fans, but they did not always was positive and good for the clubs. The real failure is the start of the new season by Manchester United. Despite the defeat of Chelsea …

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Olympiacos hooligans attacked Bayern Munich fans with sticks and fireworks ahead of the youth game between the two teams in Piraeus on Tuesday evening. At least four German fans of Bayern Munich were injured when dozens of men barged into Olympiacos’ training center in Rendi, Athens, during a game between …

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