If you’ve spent any time on Instagram or any social media for that matter in the last couple of days, you’ve most likely come across the ‘Women Supporting Women’ challenge. So, what…
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World and Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi, won the women’s edition of the ‘Garden Pole Vault Challenge’. With the temperature hovering around 39 degrees Celsius (102 Fahrenheit) in Athens, Stefanidi cleared a…
It has been officially announced that next year’s Olympics will take place from July 23 to August 8 in Tokyo, Japan. This announcement means that the Games will be held on dates…
The 2020 Olympic Games in Japan have been postponed until 2021, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed. More clarification concerning the exact dates for the staging of the Olympic Games is…
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will have to wait a year. According to USA Today, International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound, stated that the Summer Olympics will likely be pushed to 2021, and…
The Olympic Flame began its long journey from Greece to Japan for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, following the Handover Ceremony on Thursday that took place at the Kallimarmaro Panathinaic Stadium in…
World and Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi, said athletes were being forced to take health risks as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) insists it remains fully committed to the Tokyo 2020…
Thursday’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games flame handover ceremony in Greece will take place in front of a few Tokyo Games officials and torch bearers, part of ongoing efforts to contain the novel…
The 2020 Olympic Flame which was lit on Thursday in the Ancient Olympic site of Olympia on Thursday, was carried by actor Gerard Butler and others, before the decision came to suspend…
Canadian official Dick Pound, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee says that if the coronavirus proves too dangerous to handle at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this summer, organisers are more likely…
For the first time in history, a female has been chosen to launch the torch relay for the 2020 Tokyo Games at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in Greece, with Greek…
Greece’s women’s national water polo team beat Serbia in opening match at the European Championships
Greece’s women’s national water polo team started the European Championships in an impressive way, defeating Serbia 26-7. The Greeks came into the match as heavy favorites, and led 9-1 after the first…
Greece’s men’s and women’s national water polo teams are ready to compete at the European Championships in Budapest, which will begin on Sunday. These European Championships have extra importance for the Greek…
New head coach of the Greek national team, Rick Pitino, spoke to the media at his first press conference since the announcement was made saying, “For the next eight months I’m not…
Charalambos Cholidis, who won two Olympic medals for Greece in wrestling in the 1980s, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 62. Cholidis was born to Greek parents in Kazakhstan in…
By Penny Zalalas 19-year-old Deanna Kyriazopoulos is a Greek Australian Taekwondo champion who is currently ranked first in Australia in the 46 and 49 kg division and was named “2017 Female Athlete…
An apology was sent to the Greek Embassy in Australia by the head of the Seven TV Network in response to the outrage caused when they linked the Former Yugoslav Republic of…
Despite the lack of resources, the makeshift training facilities in many cases, Greece did everyone proud at this year’s Rio Olympics, proving once again, that despite its small population it punches above…
What an ending in the Men’s 10km Open Water Swimming event! Spyros Gianniotis lost the gold medal by a fingertip and earned the silver medal in the competition. The final placement was…
Eleftherios Petrounias has done it, OLYMPIC GOLD! With a score of 16.000 the Greek athlete confirmed that he is the best Rings gymnastic in the world, earning Greece’s 3rd medal at the…