Makedonas

She has not been herself since the pandemic, skipped indoor seasons in 2021 and 2022. Her only major championships results were 4th at the Tokyo Olympics and 5th in Eugene, so actually not too bad but both times she had SBs. Let's see if she can win a medal here. She won silver in 2014, gold in both 2016 and 2018 so it will be important for her although who knows. The level is low this year so it's a big chance for her. We had 3 women in the 2018 pole vault final and won gold and silver there, this year we are just hoping Stefanidi can win some type of medal...

Ο Απόστολος Χρήστου έγινε πρωταθλητής Ευρώπης, κατακτώντας το χρυσό μετάλλιο στα 50μ. ύπτιο στη Ρώμη, φθάνοντας στη μεγαλύτερη επιτυχία της καριέρας του και στο χρυσό μετάλλιο που τόσο πολύ επιζητούσε. Ο Απόστολος Χρήστου «ντύθηκε»... αυτοκράτορας στη Ρώμη και έγινε πρωταθλητής Ευρώπης στα 50μ. ύπτιο, φθάνοντας σε ένα χρυσό μετάλλιο που τόσο πολύ κυνηγούσε. Ο 26χρονος πρωταθλητής μετά από χαμένες ευκαιρίες, αυτή τη φορά απέδειξε πως ήταν το φαβορί. Μπήκε στον τελικό με τον καλύτερο χρόνο του ημιτελικού (24.48), κατέβηκε στα 24.36, πετυχαίνοντας πανελλήνιο ρεκόρ, «σβήνοντας» τα 24.39 που σημείωσε στις 24 Ιουνίου στον ημιτελικό του παγκοσμίου πρωταθλήματος της Βουδαπέστης. Έπειτα από τρία διαδοχικά χάλκινα μετάλλια σε ευρωπαϊκά πρωταθλήματα, αλλά στα 100μ. ύπτιο (Λονδίνο 2016, Γλασκώβη 2018, Βουδαπέστη 2020) ο κολυμβητής του Ολυμπιακού θα φορέσει-επιτέλους- το χρυσό μετάλλιο στο στήθος του, στη μεγαλύτερη μέχρι τώρα στιγμή της καριέρας του. Αυτή τη φορά ο Απόστολος Χρήστου είδε τον κόπους του να αποφέρουν χρυσάφι, δικαιώνοντας πρώτα από όλα τον εαυτό του και κάνοντας το καλύτερο δώρο στον εορτάζοντα σήμερα προπονητή του, Παναγιώτη Βελέντζα. Από τη στιγμή που ο Χρήστου κολύμπησε στα 24.36 ήταν σχεδόν αδύνατο να χάσει την πρώτη θέση, ακόμα και από τον γηπεδούχο Τόμας Τσεκόν, που σημείωσε 24.40 και πήρε το ασημένιο μετάλλιο. Οι δυο τους μονομάχησαν για το χρυσό μετάλλιο μέχρι την τελευταία χεριά και η αντίδραση από τον Χρήστου στο τέλος, απόλυτα χαρακτηριστική. Οι υπόλοιποι κολύμπησαν για το χάλκινο μετάλλιο, που πήγε στον Γερμανό, Όλε Μπραουνσβάιχ με 24.68.

GOLD for Christou in the men's 50 backstroke! After bronze medals in the 100 in London, Glasgow, and Budapest, he finally won gold at the European Championships. I hope he can do it in the 100 too. Also he has a history of swimming faster in the heats/semifinals than final, so I'm glad that was not the case this time and he was able to win gold. I believe this is only our 6th European swimming gold ever. He has improved a lot the last few years, I think he has a chance for a medal in Paris if he keeps this up, we'll see. Sad that Ntountounaki doesn't get a medal this time, 4th in the 50 fly (same result as last year) and 5th in the 100 fly (she won gold last year).

https://sportsfeed.gr/romi-2022-protathlitis-eyropis-o-christoy/ You can watch the 50m backstroke here

Just look at the artistic swimming results here, we finished 4th in 5 or 6 different events so far in just that one sport...

FIBA U16 European Championship 2022 75 - 47 78 - 48 79 - 45

I didn't feel that way when I went to Hungary (although I was only in Budapest so I'd imagine outside less people speak English). I was shocked in Bulgaria, very few people spoke English including in Sofia. Surely they have the lowest percentage of English speakers in the EU.

^We won by 30 points. The crowd kept chanting "Turkiye-Turkiye" but we had the last laugh in the end Sadly our best guard, Eleftherios Liotopoulos, got injured and will be out for the rest of the tournament. Our girls lost to Israel, so they got relegated. I also wonder if a team has ever won 3 games and still gotten relegated? We must be breaking all kinds of records with this team

2022 European Rowing Championships Gold: Antonios Papakonstantinou (men's lightweight single sculls) Silver: Evangelia Anastasiadou (women's single sculls) Zoi Fitsiou (women's lightweight single sculls) Stefanos Ntouskos (men's single sculls)

I underestimated our chances in the end, we got 4 medals, the most since 2011 for us. Papakonstantinou gold which was pretty much expected. Fitsiou silver which was a nice surprise, I didn't really expect it but was hoping she could sneak a bronze. Anastasiadou silver which is amazing considering she is 20 years old, 165 cm and won silver in the women's sculls beating the likes of Foester and Lobnig. Ntouskos silver, I hope he can really continue to increase his medal collection over the next few years. Kalandaridis/Palaiopanos 5th in the men's double which is a respectable result for the young crew in a tough event. Overall a good regatta for Greece (which could have been a disaster after several of our rowers tested positive for Covid and had to withdraw), we've won several medals at all four major regattas so far this year (and gold in each, actually this was the only time we only won one gold). I'm curious to see how much these young athletes between now and Paris 2024.

Congratulations on the gold! I'm happy Ntouskos won the silver, but it's bittersweet as he was so close to gold. Still, it was Ntouskos' second medal at the senior level (his first was the Olympic gold last year), which is really good, especially since a particular German on this site was calling his gold last year suspicious... The cameramen are embarrassing. They showed Foester (bronze) before Anastasiadou (silver) in the women's single which was annoying but I understood as Foester is German and this is in Germany. However, they did not show Ntouskos' celebration once! They showed Vasilev (bronze) and Zeidler (4th) reacting after the finish line, but never once did we get to see Ntouskos' reaction/celebration. Absolutely shameful. If this was in Greece, I can't imagine what the Germans would say if we did not show their silver medalist but showed the bronze and 4th place... I watch a lot of rowing and I've never seen them show the bronze medalist and 4th place but not the silver medalist...

I'm glad she posted this. She is right. This sport is a joke!

Also our u16 men's team seems impressive, they beat Spain 75-47 yesterday. I don't know much about this age group but Spain is always good so to win and by such a large margin is very good. We are currently playing in Skopje against the hosts. They were whistling and screaming against our u16 players, kind of ridiculous as they are young kids but I am not at all surprised. There was a similar situation at a women's handball match there a few years ago where our girls (I think u17 or u15) were being yelled at with racial slurs. FIBA also put the country name in the title as "Macedonia" without "North," although they fixed it now (only after a lot of backlash). People from both countries were acting very crazy in the live chat so FIBA had to disable the chat for all. Sad to see. Anyways, we are leading with 25-8 right now so I don't think we care as long as we maintain our lead

We beat Bosnia and Israel beat Sweden. This means that Bosnia and Sweden are both relegated to Division B. Greece vs Israel tomorrow in the 13th place game will determine which team stays in Division A and which gets relegated...

Another European final for Theodora Drakou, this time in the women's 50 backstroke She's finished 4th/5th at least 4 times in her career, but never won a medal. She said that is the one medal she is chasing which is why she continued after Tokyo and will swim until Paris. Sadly I don't think she has a chance to win a medal in the final but you never know!

4th for Ntountounaki, lately we are becoming Canada 2.0 with all of these 4th place finishes in every sport

Same here, it would be unbearable to follow our medias in case we would not have made it

Olympiacos survived on penalties to beat Slovan Bratislava

Ο Κωνσταντίνος Λαμπρίδης αναδείχθηκε Πρωταθλητής Ευρώπης U17 στην κατηγορία των 61κ., σηκώνοντας 249 κιλά στο σύνολο. Σπουδαία εμφάνιση από τον Κωνσταντίνο Λαμπρίδη που έφερε διάκριση στην ελληνική άρση βαρών μετά από πολύ καιρό. Ο νεαρός αθλητής αναδείχθηκε πρωταθλητής Ευρώπης στα 61 κιλά, καθώς σήκωσε 249 κιλά στο σύνολο! Ο Λαμπρίδης δεν ξεκίνησε καλά χάνοντας την πρώτη προσπάθεια στο αρασέ στα 105 κιλά. Ωστόσο στη δεύτερη τα σήκωσε και μετά τα κατάφερε και στα 109 κιλά, κατακτώντας το χάλκινο μετάλλιο. Στο ζετέ, όμως, δεν είχε αντίπαλο και ξεκινώντας από τα 134 κιλά και μετά σήκωσε 140, επίδοση που ήταν αρκετή για το χρυσό μετάλλιο, τόσο στη κίνηση, όσο και στο σύνολο. Δοκίμασε και στα 142 χωρίς επιτυχία αλλά ούτως ή άλλως ήταν ο πρώτος στην Ευρώπη, πετυχαίνοντας τεράστια επιτυχία για την ελληνική άρση βαρών. «Είμαι πολύ χαρούμενος για τη διάκριση που πέτυχα. Θα ήθελα να ευχαριστήσω όσους συνέβαλαν σε αυτή, την Ομοσπονδία, τους προπονητές και το σύλλογο μου, στη συγκεκριμένη περίπτωση μάλιστα, προπονητής είναι ο μπαμπάς μου. Τη διάκριση αυτή θέλω να την χαρίσω στην Ελλάδα», είπε μετά την κατάκτηση του χρυσού ο Λαμπρίδης. Στην κατηγορία των 61 κιλών στους U15 ο Στέφανος Τρακόσσας ήταν 9ος με 187 κιλά στο σύνολο, με 80 στο αρασέ και 107 στο ζετέ.

All six of our crews made the A Finals Bourmpou/Fragkou finished 6th as expected. Papakonstantinou looking like a lock to win a medal in the men's lightweight single. Kalandaridis/Palaiopanos a pleasant surprise after they previously struggled in the men's category, they look like a 50/50 chance to win a medal. Ntouskos I think is likely to win a medal too but not certain. Even Fitsiou might win a medal. I can't see Anastasiadou win a medal which is frustrating because if we put her in the lightweight single and stead of the single, she would've been the clear favourite to win gold... Also interesting that Ahmet Rapi representing Sweden actually grew up in Greece. Never would have guessed it based on the name of course

Gave me false hope that our 17 yo Apostolos Siskos made the final, but instead he finished 9th since Ndoye got back in

Emmanouilidou out due to injury. She was only going to be competing in our women's 4x100 team. Such a shame as I really thought we would make the final, but as always at least one of our best girls is injured so our relay team can never show their full potential We don't have enough depth to make the final without her I fear... Also Vasiliou out (400 and 4x400). This was supposed to be her last competition although she also said that at the World Indoors. Somehow I think we will see her until Paris 2024. It's a shame our 4x400 team will struggle without her, although ever since Belibasaki disappeared we had no chance of making the Olympics anyways.

This time it was Vasiliki Alexandri, the third Greek triplet competing for Austria, who won bronze in the solo with 90.0156, and our girl Evangelia Platanioti got 4th with 89.9965 So embarrassing that these sisters went to compete for Austria and ended up becoming better than all of our girls who stayed in Greece...