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I'm not sure, because I think UEFA counts the Euro win as only

Danilovic has a very good draw to make the quarterfinals, if she does it she will be the first Serbian woman to make a slam QF since Ana Ivanovic at RG 2015!

Yeah I'm pretty sure we won't qualify as usual, on paper we should have qualified for London, Rio, and Tokyo but always something goes wrong whether it is multiple injured players or another country playing their best game ever against us (Nigeria in 2012 and Czechs in 2021) or the NBA season running into mid July or a combination of these

For us qualifying is harder than finals apparently

Thank you! Slava Ukraini! Panathinaikos fans have been bragging about 1971 ever since, and they even now are trying to downplay Conference League and say it is "Intertoto" or "Milko Cup" (Milko is a Greek brand of chocolate milk so they do it in a way to make it seem unserious). Anyways, many people who support thew rival teams were happy for Olympiacos, of course there will always be haters though We are also now one of 8 countries who have won a European trophy both with the national team and with a club team, joining , an incredible achievement for our country compared to these footballing giants, even aren't on that list

The first time I cried tears of joy from a football game since the 2014 World Cup!

We are not sleeping tonight! Incredible night for Olympiacos, Greek football, and Greece in general! And for it to happen in our home country as well, just incredible! I am often complaining about our sport hitting new lows but we have won two European titles (Panathinaikos BC in Euroleague and now this) this week, not bad! Also funny that in football this season, PAOK won the league, Panathinaikos won the cup, and Olympiacos won a European trophy at AEK's stadium. So the four major Greek clubs were all represented in some way

2024 European U23 Wrestling Championships: GOLD Gkivi Bliatze (Men's Freestyle 92 kg) Georgios Kougioumtsidis (Men's Freestyle 79 kg)

Panathinaikos wins! It was great to see a Greek team win after many years, and Sloukas with 24 points in 25 minutes, hopefully he can bring that level to the national team this summer because we will need him.

Huge result in decathlon at the Balkan Championships, 24 yo Angelos Andreoglou improves his PB from 7676 at last year's Balkan Championships to 7926 to win gold This is now second all-time in Greece (NR is 8069 from a million years ago). Andreoglou now passed Alexandros Spyridonidis who had 7917 in 2022 as a 24 yo, and seemed to be the one who was going to take the NR, but has had injury problems since then. Andreoglou had PBs today in the shot put, discus, and 1500. Suddenly it seems like he can make the European Championships (as I'm sure there will also be a lot of withdrawals due to it being an Olympic year), and with a good score/result there (which is possible considering his form and the higher level of competition), maybe he can even make it to the Olympics...

The EHF European Cup final second leg was played yesterday in Greece. Although Olympiacos lost on penalties, over 7500 fans showed up. This is big for Greek handball, as I doubt we ever had that many people at a handball match in Greece aside from Athens 2004. Of course most of the people there are fans of the football club and probably had never seen handball live before, but once the news broke that the club's handball team made a European final, people started to get interested so they moved the venue into a bigger one.

Too bad we couldn't have an all-Greek final, but hopefully Panathinaikos can bring the title back to Greece! It will be the first Greek title in Euroleague since 2013, and their first one as a club since 2011!

We have our cup final today, Panathinaikos vs Aris Thessaloniki. If Aris win, it'll be their first cup since 1970, and the last time they won the league was 1946! They have one of the top 5 fanbases in Greece so it'll be pretty big if they pull it off. Their fans have waited many many years. The league ended last week and it was probably the most exciting it's ever been. PAOK won, AEK Athens 2nd, Olympiacos 3rd, Panathinaikos 4th, and Aris 5th. These are also the five biggest teams in Greece historically and with fan support. The top 4 were still in the hunt for the league title with 2 matchdays left, and on the last matchday it was between PAOK and AEK, with PAOK winning 1-2 away in a derby with a late goal at Aris, their main rivals as they are the two big clubs of Thessaloniki. And we still have Olympiacos in the Conference League final next week, so yeah, exciting times for Greek football just too bad our national team is hitting historic lows...

Yeah he probably wasn't feeling well, and maybe two races in one day was too much for him to handle if he was sick or has a small injury, obviously normally he would breeze through both races. He also DNS today in Final D...

Tokyo was our first time not qualifying in RG since 1984, now it looks like we won't qualify yet again and will then get the last quotas and and will miss out.

Good start for in the group event

And in the flag ceremony it says "South Cyprus" with the flag...

Also it is ridiculous how the Balkan Championships have become, Cyprus is not Balkan but I can sort of see the connections due to the Greekness of Cyprus. However, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Malta, Austria, Ukraine??? Definitely not Balkan countries.

At World Cup II, Ntouskos won his heat but then finished last in his quarterfinal a few hours later, behind the likes of Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe! I think it might've had something to do with having two races in the same day, hopefully he will be fine for the Olympics as he just won silver at the European Championships, and in those events you don't race twice in one day. Our women's pair were 2nd in their heat (clearly behind ), now 2nd in their semifinal (clearly behind ), so not looking good for an Olympic medal after they were clearly behind at the European Championships. We will see tomorrow in the final how they race against and . Anyways they have shown they should definitely make the final in Paris so that should be their goal and then from there anything is possible really Also it's possible the other crews are "peaking too soon" but I don't think so because these are the same crews who finished above our girls at the Worlds last year (plus who it seems we are clearly better than now).

Scandal right now at the Balkan Championships, held in Turkey, the official live stream just showed a graphic " Olivia Fotopoulou" on screen...

No, they already got host quota via reallocation.

Looks like the groups quota will be between There are other countries as well but realistically it will be one of these three, the others are much weaker.

Cyprus just giving citizenship to all Russians these days it seems, at this rate they'll outnumber Greek Cypriots one day...

Well we only have 7 boats, so it's a decent amount but could be more. I expect medals in M1X, M2-, M2X, W2-, W2X. Not sure about M4- and W4X as we have a bunch of new athletes I don't know about.

Panagiota Lytra really messed this up