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Amazing way to end the race to the WTA Finals, great win for Maria Sakkari to clinch the final spot

It was far from the first time although at least now she apologised, hopefully she stops for good.

Sto Eurwpaiko k20 kai einai molis 17!

How many times has Iga done this? I've lost count. No need to act like Kyrgios. She should be better than that.

We are bidding with Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Three different continents in one bid... Personally I miss the days of one or at the most two countries hosting (provided that they were neighbours). Now it's simply too much...

Artistic Swimming (2) Sofia Malkogeorgou and Evangelia Platanioti (women's duet) Athletics (13) Ariadni Adamopoulou (women's pole vault) Michail Anastasakis (men's hammer throw) Antigoni Drisbioti (women's 20km walk) Polyniki Emmanouilidou (women's 100m, women's 200m) Kyriaki Filtisakou (women's 20km walk) Christos Frantzeskakis (men's hammer throw) Tatiana Gusin (women's high jump) Emmanouil Karalis (men's pole vault) Eleni Polak (women's pole vault) Stamatia Scarvelis (women's hammer throw) Ekaterini Stefanidi (women's pole vault) Miltiadis Tentoglou (men's long jump) Elina Tzengko (women's javelin throw) Cycling - Road (1) Georgios Bouglas (men's road race) Equestrian (1) Ioli Mytilineou (individual jumping) Fencing (1) Theodora Gkountoura (women's sabre) Gymnastics - Artistic (1) Eleftherios Petrounias (men's rings) Judo (2) Elisavet Teltsidou (women's -70 kg) Theodoros Tselidis (men's -90 kg) Rowing (7) Evangelia Anastasiadou and Christina Bourmpou (women's pair) Zoi Fitsiou and Dimitra Kontou (women's lightweight double sculls) Petros Gkaidatzis and Antonios Papakonstantinou (men's lightweight double sculls) Stefanos Ntouskos (men's single sculls) Sailing (4) Byron Kokkalanis (men's IQFoil) Cameron Maramenidis (men's formula kite) Ariadni Spanaki (mixed 470) Odysseas Spanakis (mixed 470) Shooting (5) Charalambos Chalkiadakis (men's skeet) Emmanouela Katzouraki (women's skeet) Anna Korakaki (women's 10m air pistol) Efthimios Mitas (men's skeet) Christina Moschi (women's 10m air pistol) Swimming (17) Stergios Bilas (men's 50m freestyle, men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay) Panagiotis Bolanos (men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay) Apostolos Christou (men's 100m backstroke, men's 200m backstroke, men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay, mixed 4 x 100 m medey relay) Georgia Damasioti (women's 100m butterfly) Theodora Drakou (mixed 4 x 100 m medey relay) Konstantinos Englezakis (men's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay) Kristian Gkolomeev (men's 50m freestyle, men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay) Athanasios Kynigakis (men's 10 km open water) Evangelos Makrygiannis (men's 100m backstroke) Dimitrios Markos (men's 800m freestyle, men's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay) Odysseas Meladinis (men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay) Evangelos Ntoumas (mixed 4 x 100 m medey relay) Anna Ntountounaki (mixed 4 x 100 m medey relay, women's 100m butterfly) Apostolos Papastamos (men's 400m individual medley) Apostolos Siskos (men's 200m backstroke) Konstantinos Stamou (men's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay) Andreas Vazaios (men's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay, men's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay) Table Tennis (1) Panagiotis Gionis (men's singles) Water Polo (24) Men's team Women's team Wrestling (3) Georgios Kougioumtsidis (men's freestyle -74 kg) Dauren Kurugliev (men's freestyle -86 kg) Maria Prevolaraki (women's freestyle -53 kg)

Η Αννα Κορακάκη έγινε η πρώτη αθλήτρια από την Ελλάδα που εξασφάλισε θέση στους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες του 2024 με το αργυρό μετάλλιο στο Παγκόσμιο Πρωτάθλημα σκοποβολής.

Konstantinos Filippidis (pole vault) He is 35 years old and didn't compete at all in 2022 so it's not surprising. He competed at London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, finishing 6th in London and 7th in Rio. He has the Greek NR of 5.91m from 2015. His biggest achievements were the gold medal at the 2014 World Indoor Championships and silver at the 2017 European Indoor Championships.

I'm sure some of the Greeks in Australia speak Greek...

He is also the one in the photo at 0:35 in this video

Nicholas Scarvelis (shot put) He is only 29 years old and has the Greek NR of 21.05 from 2020. He competed for Greece at the 2016 Olympics. His most recent competition was the 2022 World Athletics Championships, so I did not expect him to stop until at least Paris 2024...

Alexandros Nikolaidis (taekwondo) passed away at the age of 42 due to cancer. He won silver medals at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, and was Greece's flag bearer for the opening ceremony at London 2012.

I think the Slovaks have really gone downhill in women's tennis. Kuzmova and Schmiedlova were a lot better earlier in their careers than they are now (I remember Schmiedlova had an embarrassing losing streak). Is Cepelova ever coming back after having a baby? She also similarly had her best results earlier in her career. Personally I think Cibulkova and Rybarikova retired too young. And where is Kucova these days?

Still no wins for us, however with Teltsidou and Tselidis (our two best) competing tomorrow I am optimistic that will change.

Well she will be representing Portugal at the upcoming World Championships, and at all regattas afterwards. So Portugal gets the number 3 ranked sailor in the world in this class just because she wanted to find a new country. I wonder what incentives they are offering her, because everyone knows she is Greek and has no connection with Portugal... I would say I wish her the best but that would be a lie, the truth is I couldn't care less about her career anymore. Sorry if that sounds mean but at least I am an honest person...I won't wish her good luck because it would be fake. Hopefully our problematic federations (sailing, rowing, wrestling) get their acts together so we don't lose any more athletes (we have 2 rowers and 1 wrestler who all were at Tokyo 2020 and currently have publicized issues with the federations but for now the athletes say they still want to represent Greece and seem hopeful that they will build better relations with their federations). And the rowers are always thanking the Hellenic Olympic Committee for their help so I'd be shocked if they switched nationalities.

Krejcikova looking to do what Kontaveit did at the end of 2021...

Of course a lot of hateful comments on Greek sports sites today, as if we ever had a men's tennis player who was anywhere near his level before... I'm too lazy to check but I think he was originally 2-1 against Novak. A lot of people focus on him being 0-9 in ATP 500 finals, and it's a weird statistic, but most of those matches were against the Big 3, and anyways he has won the ATP Finals and two Masters 1000s which are all more important than 500s. If he played Tokyo instead of Astana, I think he would've won the final as that tournament was a lot weaker than Astana even though both were 500s.

Mitas is 7th in the men's skeet with 97, hoping he can get us our first quota place here. Would be extra nice for him as he missed Tokyo despite being in London and Rio!

Tsitsipas beats two fellow top-10 opponents in Hurkacz and Rublev to make the final of ATP 500 in Kazakhstan. He will face the winner of Medvedev vs Djokovic. Suddenly his haters are silent and no one says he needs a new coach, but if he loses tomorrow they will magically re-appear...

GREECE

Sofia Ifadidou (heptathlon) - She competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. In London she set the Olympic heptathlon javelin record. She will compete next month in the Athens marathon. Interesting choice for her last competition although it is symbolic. After that she will compete in December in a small road race in her hometown of Veria.

After 19 years of being "homeless," AEK Athens FC new stadium is finally ready and they had a grand opening celebration: