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Our boxing federation posted 1h ago that she will not be able to compete in this event because she has a fever.

Georgiadou really deserves to go to the Olympics, she was incredible during this Olympic cycle, winning medals at both World Championships that took place as well as other big events. So, so sad

Easy to say considering this has already happened

the biggest team with boxers in all 13 events, then each with 12. Obviously some countries already qualified boxers so that's why they have less, but still interesting to see us with so many. I'm sure most of them have no chance but it's a promising sign that we are at least trying to give young boxers more experience. I am sad that Pita isn't here, she was so close to qualifying for Tokyo and she was only 22 so I thought she'd have more chances, but now it seems like she stopped competing after that OQT where it came down to the last round

I remember watching Tentoglou win gold as a young athlete, 20 years old, at the 2018 European Championships and the 2019 European Indoor Championships with such excitement. Now we expect the gold and anything less is a massive disappointment I've noticed this with many other sports/athletes who I support, it's more fun watching them rise, once they get to the top it's not as interesting.

Georgiadou fell in the quarterfinals, Gkountoura in the round of 16. So if my calculations are correct, Georgiadou (154) is 23 points behind Gkountoura (177). The last chance will be in two weeks in Belgium. Here is what Georgiadou needs in order to qualify for the Olympics: -Win at least silver and have Gkountoura lose in the round of 64 -Win gold and have Gkountoura lose in the round of 16 or round of 32 It's very unlikely...

Also happy with Gusin getting 7th in the women's high jump yesterday. 1.88 is nothing special for her but she's in a really good position to finally qualify for the Olympics (via ranking). She had injury problems which really hurt her chances for Rio and Tokyo, and she even said before this year that the Olympics weren't her main goal because something always goes wrong for her in Olympic years, so she didn't want to have high expectations, and now she is almost certain to qualify as long as she stays healthy. Very happy for her!

It's gotten to the point where I don't even celebrate Tentoglou's gold medals anymore, it's just become the norm In typical Tentoglou fashion, he doesn't celebrate either and is actually angry that he only jumped 8.22 I just hope he can win another Olympic gold in Paris, I'm a little worried about it as he is bound to fail at some point, and to be honest an athlete like him is totally worth another Olympic gold so hopefully he can take his chances. Obviously he will still be the big favourite for gold but it won't be easy...

Wozniacki has only played Billie Jean King Cup once since 2011, but I'm sure they'll bend the rules for her and use her retirement/pregnancy as an excuse for not playing during this Olympic period (unless she ends up playing in April). Not that she has a chance of doing anything, especially on clay courts, and I don't know if she'll be able to qualify in mixed doubles with Rune (which she said was one of the reasons why she came back) considering how low her ranking is and time is really running out for her to move up. She'll probably have to be top 30 or so in the next few months and she's currently nowhere near there and hasn't been taking the tour schedule seriously enough in my opinion.

I guess mathematically there is still a chance for Georgiadou to overtake Gkountoura for Greece's quota spot in the women's sabre. However, Gkountoura can clinch her spot in Paris this weekend...

You'd probably be fine, basically everyone under age 50 speaks English to some degree, and over 50 I'd say it's hit or miss. Especially in Athens, most people are more "educated" than in for example some remote/rural villages. Anyways nowadays Greek has adopted so many English words that you probably speak more "Greek" than you think

Next time you should take the metro! It's clean, modern and efficient and easy to use and cheaper than taxis. Generally very safe but of course just be careful, as you would be in any other big city using public transport. Also although the Plaka/Monastiraki areas are quite touristy, a lot of local Greeks also hang out there and go to the restaurants and rooftop bars, so it's probably more authentic than you think, but I get what you mean. I've never been to Olympia and I used to want to go, but to be honest most people say it's not that impressive . If you go to Peloponnese (area where Olympia/Patras are), it's better to go to Nafplio (our former capital city) and the Mani Peninsula as well as the western Messinia area (Voidokilia Beach, Polylimnio Waterfalls). Yeah I get what you mean about football and basketball, though it depends on which teams are playing. Games with other European teams are usually more calm (with some exceptions especially if the opponents are from the Balkans). I would avoid a derby at all costs...

Looks like yet another sailing event where we'll narrowly miss the quota and have to try again at the last chance regatta

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've never been to the National Archaeological Museum. I thought about going last year when I was in Athens but I'm pretty sure it is near a bad area of the city, I'll probably go again later this year so maybe I'll check it out. Yes, Greeks are not the most careful drivers especially in cities It's too bad if you didn't go to any sporting events while you were there, but next time definitely check out some islands or mainland - northern Greece (Thessaloniki, Halkidiki, Mount Olympus, Meteora...) Did you have gemista with just rice or with rice and meat? My grandmother made the best one, with rice and meat, but I've found that the vegetarian version is more common in taverns, at least from my experience!

Big scandal now because they didn't have to do the last race, they already had enough races for the results to be valid and our federation either didn't know or deliberately chose to do another race and then we lost the quota place after Papadakos got 37th and the Slovenian guy 8th to move ahead of Papadakos by 4 points... The women had less races than the men for example, and many people complained to our federation that it should've been stopped. Aimilios Papathanasiou, who represented us 5 times at the Olympics, was the commentator on the live stream and even he was saying it that there shouldn't be another race... Just stupidity from our sailing federation. Hopefully Papadakos can qualify at the last chance regatta. He did well here and at the World Championships so he is definitely one of the favourites for a quota...

No one is coming to Greece? I'm happy to give recommendations

I don't think so. They didn't win a medal at the World Championships last year, and this year they won gold but had a few narrow wins.

+1 M Triple Jump: Dimitrios Tsiamis I saw a Greek source claim he will be the oldest competitor ever at the World Indoor Championships. He is 42 years old since January. Can anyone confirm this?

Papadakos was comfortably in position until he totally blew it in the last race Still 0 Greek sailors qualified for the Olympics, if it remains that way it'll be the first time since 1936 where we are not competing in sailing at the Olympics. Reminder that we had 8 sailors in Tokyo so it's not like we had a tiny team then...

https://www.facebook.com/eurilca/posts/pfbid0dkKx7EGfDCS1zywUrS2cGS1SfxEM16pKzYKoDRDZfwzHkwc7DRWqH8zMAHNZ5RLsl This is not looking good. Of course the one time we host an Olympic qualification event, something has to go terribly wrong. Of course we can't control the weather but still, just our luck Does anyone know how the Olympic quotas be reallocated if we can't complete this regatta on time?

M 60m: Ioannis Nyfantopoulos 60m H: Konstantinos Douvalidis Pole Vault: Emmanouil Karalis Long Jump: Miltiadis Tentoglou W 60m: Polyniki Emmanouilidou 60m H: Elisavet Pesiridou Pole Vault: Katerina Stefanidi High Jump: Tatiana Gusin

I thought he was born on Mount Olympus? He said today he hopes to get Greek citizenship so he can compete in Paris. I'm still confused as to how he can compete for Greece in the European Championships without citizenship? I know in athletics we had some athletes who couldn't compete for the "national team" until getting citizenship, but in meets around the world they were listed as "GRE" athletes for a while.

Gold for Kurugliev, can't say I'm really able to celebrate this

2024 European Wrestling Championships: GOLD Dauren Kurugliev (Men's Freestyle 86 kg) BRONZE Maria Prevolaraki (Women's Freestyle 53 kg)

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