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Makedonas

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Makedonas last won the day on September 26 2023

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  1. https://www.instagram.com/p/C5BL6CxMczW/?img_index=1 So many famous fencers commenting on this post, it's nice to see how they support each other! Poor Despina
  2. Maybe for you guys it is laughable, you were in an easy group and struggled so much, and even against Wales did not have a shot on goal the entire 120 minutes and still qualified. For us we were in the toughest group, fought very hard in two games against France and one game against the Netherlands, won all games against the other teams, won our Nations League group, beat Kazakhstan 5-0 on Thursday, and had one poor game at Georgia where even though we didn't concede a goal, we could not score, and lost on penalties, and will not be at the Euros... So it's all about perspective, you think it is easy but for us it is not easy. The sad thing is we qualified for three consecutive Euros (2004, 2008, 2012) and made the quarterfinals or better in two of those, then they increased the amount of teams to 24 for the next three (2016, 2020, 2024) and we did not manage to qualify for any of them! 2016 was probably the worst as we were in a joke group and most of our Starting 11 played in the Champions League at that time and we've been in a massive slump ever since. On paper, there simply are not 24 teams better than us even if now we do not have as good players as we used to, we still should be qualifying for these tournaments, it's really a shame. I also had tickets for Euro 2024 but I guess it is time to resell. Another tournament watching from the couch...
  3. One of the worst days in my sporting life, I honestly have no words...
  4. 5-0! An amazing night, with a full stadium, I'm so happy I made a last minute decision to go to Athens for the night
  5. 16 yo rower Achilleas Monastiriotis died in a car accident on his home island of Corfu, he previously was in training camp with our national team and was the national champion U14 in indoor rowing a few years ago.
  6. Looks like we won't be competing at the World Relays, which means we won't try to send our women's 4 x 100 to the Olympics. I thought they had a real chance to sneak a quota, they are 21st, only less than half a second off the top 16, and with such a young team that has already improved a lot individually since last year, it is pretty crazy to not even try. Emmanouilidou improved her 100m PB from 11.44 in 2022 to 11.21 in 2023, and already in 2024 improved her 60m PB from 7.26 in 2023 to 7.24. Tsoukala improved her 100m PB from 11.83 in 2022 to 11.44 in 2023, and already in 2024 improved her 60m PB from 7.52 in 2023 to 7.39. Anastasiou improved her 100m PB from 11.54 in 2022 to 11.41 in 2023, and already in 2024 improved her 60m PB from 7.41 in 2022 to 7.37. Based on their performances this year in 60m, I would say it's pretty safe to say they are in good shape, not to mention the 4th member of the team would either be Spanoudaki or Pesiridou, both girls are older and with previous Olympic experience. I guess we'll have to wait until 2028 to see these girls, hopefully some of them can at least make it in individual events (Emmanouilidou really should for example).
  7. Entries are out for the Piediluco Regatta: http://www.memorialdaloja.org/index.shtml Some surprises within the Greek team. We are sending two men's double sculls teams and breaking up Kalandaridis and Palaiopanos. They were in Final A at the 2022 Worlds but Palaiopanos got injured after and they were horrible in 2023, they finished in Final D at the 2023 Worlds so now Kalandaridis is teaming up with 17 yo Cholopoulos who is probably way too young to be able to qualify for Paris although his results have been impressive for his age. Women's double sculls we have a young inexperienced crew of 19 yo Asvesta and 16 yo Lykomitrou, meanwhile we have Fragkou and A.Kyridou each in the single sculls. I think it's strange when they are clearly better and it would make sense for the two of them to team up together in the double sculls (especially since only one will be able to compete in single sculls in Paris), but I'm not sure why M.Kyridou isn't here. The Kyridou sisters posted something cryptic after the internal regatta a few weeks ago which made it seem like they didn't make the national team, so now I'm pleasantly surprised to see that one of them at least made it, but it's weird at the same time, and for the first time ever (at least that I can remember) the federation didn't publish the results from the internal regatta, and one of their Tokyo Olympians who got 5th place didn't make the national team but "random" teenagers did?!
  8. Great win for Maria over Gauff, though she almost choked it away
  9. What a night for the teams! Olympiacos win 6-1 away (aet) to overcome a 1-4 loss in the first leg, and PAOK 5-1 at home after a 2-0 loss away against Dinamo Zagreb. Extra special that Dinamo Zagreb were eliminated from European competitions twice in the same season by Greek teams, after their fans killed a Greek fan and then celebrated it, and their club management blamed the Greek police instead of their own ridiculous hooligans...
  10. Wait I think Kerber and Osaka have protected rankings in the 30s/40s, so like Andreescu, they'll also be in. So it's Wozniacki, Halep, and Raducanu for the two wildcards. Wozniacki is up to 129 in the live rankings now so if she can make the top 60/70 or so by the end of May, which is looking likely even though she's horrible on clay, then Halep just has to be top 400 to make it to Paris? Can someone confirm?
  11. I agree, they will likely get an exception as there was no opportunity for them to play, and the ITF is very lenient. I mean Wozniacki has played for her country once since 2011 and still got to play Rio and I'm sure they would've let her play Tokyo if she didn't retire before. I am more interested to see what happens with the Grand Slam/legacy wildcard spots. I'm sure it won't matter for Venus Williams as she won't be in the top 4 Americans. Andreescu can use a protected ranking to get automatic entry to the Olympics. And I don't think Muguruza will be back before then (if ever). That leaves us with Wozniacki, Kerber, Halep, Osaka, and Raducanu. I don't think I'm missing anyone else? There are only two spots. Time is running out for these girls to get in directly, so in the end 3 of them could miss out...
  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_in_Zimbabwe I know Wikipedia isn't the best source, but it says here that most of the Greeks in Zimbabwe came from Cyprus, so I guess it makes sense now @Olympian1010
  13. Cyprianos aka Kyprianos is a Cypriot name, I know there was in the past some Greek community in Zimbabwe.
  14. I never said we would definitely qualify or that it was a surprise (but that the sport often has surprises), but it's definitely a failure from us that we had several athletes here with decent chances and not one of them was able to get a quota, even for Tokyo we had lower expectations but still managed a quota. It's also disappointing that Telikostoglou and Sarvanaki for example won medals in World Championships but can't make it to the Olympics, though I know they are not the only ones in this world of course.
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