Makedonas

For the second year in a row, we had Tentoglou and Drisbioti win. For me, Tentoglou is totally deserved. He won gold at the European indoors and World outdoors and is clearly the best long jumper in the world. The other finalists were Petrounias and Ntouskos, which to me doesn't make much sense. Petrounias won silver at the worlds and bronze at the Europeans, while Ntouskos missed the podium at the worlds but won silver at the Europeans. This time, no Antetokounmpo or Tsitsipas. Actually, Tsitsipas was 9th despite making a GS final. Men's skeet world champion Mitas was only 4th in the voting. In my opinion, he should've been a finalist over Ntouskos. However, I can live with these results. Drisbioti winning for the women is completely a joke. Sure, she had a solid year, but is she really the best we had in women's sport? She won bronze in 35km at the World Championships, which is not even an Olympic event. Then she won gold at the European race walking cup and set national records in 20km and indoor 3km, but it's ridiculous that she won now two years in a row without winning a World Championships medal in an Olympic event. Korakaki and Ntountounaki were the other finalists. Korakaki makes sense as she won a World Championships silver and European Championships gold in Olympic events. Ntountounaki though? She won gold and bronze at the European short course championships. Not fair to girls like Katzouraki (7th place), Gkountoura (11th place), Georgiadou (14th place) who won World Championship medals in Olympic events. So ridiculous how they weren't even close to being finalists. I'm not surprised though, Drisbioti and Ntountounaki always get some favoritism in these awards because they are popular with journalists. It's a shame that Georgiadou the last two years was not a finalist for this award despite being a World Championships medalist each year. In 2023 she also won gold medals in Grand Prix and World Cup events but gets no love. To make things worse, she is 95% not going to the Olympics yet again because of the one fencer per country rule if you don't qualify a team

2023 European U21 Championships: GOLD: Men's +87 kg - Sotiris Michopoulos BRONZE: Men's +87 kg - Filippos Dimitrakopoulos Men's - 54 kg - Konstantinos Dimitropoulos

2023 European U22 Boxing Championships: BRONZE: Antonia Giannakopoulou (Women's -52 kg) Stelios Kirsanidis (Men's -63.5 kg)

ATP Rankings - Top 5 Singles: 6. Stefanos Tsitsipas 416. Stefanos Sakellaridis 756. Alexandros Skorilas 1267. Demetris Azoides 1270. Markos Kalovelonis ATP Rankings - Top 5 Doubles: 97. Petros Tsitsipas 113. Stefanos Tsitsipas 247. Markos Kalovelonis 266. Michail Pervolarakis 286. Stefanos Sakellaridis WTA Rankings - Top 5 Singles: 8. Maria Sakkari 215. Despina Papamichail 222. Valentini Grammatikopoulou 278. Sapfo Sakellaridi 317. Martha Matoula WTA Rankings - Top 5 Doubles: 94. Despina Papamichail 114. Valentini Grammatikopoulou 163. Sapfo Sakellaridi 308. Eleni Christofi 410. Martha Matoula

2024 Women's European Water Polo Championship: Group A: 14 - 12 25 - 8 2024 Men's European Water Polo Championship: Group B: 10 - 8 8 - 15

Equestrian +1 Ioli Mytilineou (individual jumping)

Well, that was quite disappointing...

It will be very tough for us. Also home teams very rarely qualify from OQT, though we did it in 2008 (which was the last time we hosted and coincidentally the last time we qualified for OG)...

Solid start for our boys with a 10-8 win against Hungary! Revenge for losing to them on penalties in the World Championships final last year We already qualified for Paris 2024 so there should be no pressure on us, and although we have an Olympic medal and four World Championships medals (and even four World League medals!), surprisingly our men's team has never won a European Championships medal! So the goal here is obviously to finally win a European medal. It would be a bonus if it's gold because we've never won a gold medal in anything at the senior level.

Great start for our girls with a 14-12 win over Hungary. Giannopoulou was the unlikely hero with 4 goals, she is someone who we normally don't even expect to play much. We also won 25-8 today against Croatia which was expected. As the Netherlands and Spain are already qualified, it is between for the one Olympic ticket here (and the other two will have a chance at next month's World Championships). Also I want to mention that 35 yo Alexandra Asimaki is in our team, she is back after retiring in 2020, having a baby, becoming a coach, then becoming a player again and now she is here. Her inclusion in our team was important since Maria Myriokefalitaki got injured and can't compete.

Well done to Mytilineou! Our first time participating in equestrian at the Olympics since 2004

If you click on her profile, it still says Karachaliou represents Greece. Very strange.

Ruse's grunt reminds me so much of Halep

Hopefully so we can finish top 5, but it'll probably be or to push us down to 7th

So close to finish top 5 for the second year in a row

Down from 8th to 11th with Canada's votes added

We were barely top 20 a few votes ago and now tied for 11th (not including the 9 points we just got from Lithuania) Hopefully we can finish in the top 10, it would only be our second time ever in any TAISC/TOISC after last year's TOISC when we were top 5.

Same here, but it's makedonas (male) or makedonissa (female), I don't think we are referring to the same 'Macedonia' when we say that

It's funny, because people often say that Greek surnames and Lithuanian surnames sound similar For example, they have the Sabonis' in basketball, we have Sabanis who won Olympic medals in weightlifting...

Our flag looks different here

It's happening for Greece too, Marina Satti who is currently representing us in TOISC will now also be representing us in ESC 2024

I had a feeling we would get the 12, Serbs typically love Greek music