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Georgiadou continues her incredible improvement, wow! At 31 years old she is having the best season of her career. She never made the top 20 in her career, and now this year she is already number 4 (and that's not including her bronze medal here). Also she becomes the second Greek fencer to win a World Championships medal, after Theodora Gkountoura (who got 5th place here) also did so in the same event at the last World Championships, where she became the first. It's pretty cool to see us doing well in the women's sabre. I just wish the Olympic qualification system was more favourable, but who knows, maybe we can keep improving and qualify in the team event?!

Ποτε ήταν η τελευταία φορά που είχαμε δυνατή ομάδα στις ηλικιακές κατηγορίες; Το 2017;

@George_DIn 2015 our U18 boys won gold in Division A (Papagiannis/Charalampopoulos era) and then the following year in U20 they had to play in Division B even though they surely would've won a medal in Division A (which they did in 2017 of course)

WTA 250 Budapest First round qualifying: (8) Despina Papamichail GRE d. (WC) Amarissa Kiara Toth HUN 5-7 6-2 1-0 ret. Second round qualifying: (8) Despina Papamichail GRE d. (PR) Varvara Flink RUS 7-6(4) 6-3 First round: (Q) Despina Papamichail GRE d. Dalma Galfi HUN 7-6(4) 6-3 Second round: (9) Anna Bondar HUN d. (Q) Despina Papamichail GRE 6-2 6-3

Yes, unless you count WTA 125 tournaments. She only played in a few main draws before this, maybe 3 or 4. She always lost R1 though. I think this was her first top 100 win ever. She almost beat Kontaveit in 2020 in Fed Cup (I think she was up a set and a break). She was actually a top 50 junior and was hyped more than Sakkari for example. At age 18 she was already ranked 350 (which is good especially for a player from Greece since she doesn't receive wildcards like players from other countries). Then her progress stopped. I read some recent interviews where she said her family knew nothing about tennis and they made a lot of mistakes in managing her career (unlike Sakkari and Tsitsipas who had parents who were involved in the sport, I know Grammatikopoulou has said similar things that her parents know nothing about tennis and that they made poor decisions too, and obviously the Greek tennis federation is not strong like Australia or USA), also her style of play is ultra-defensive and some coaches abroad tried to change her to make her more aggressive and then her results started going downhill once she tried to make these changes. She didn't name specific coaches but I know she was at Juan Carlos Ferrero's academy for some years and her results were bad during that time so one can draw conclusions... It seems that now she has finally embraced her defensive style of play and it seems to be paying off, as she is getting much better results the last 2-3 years and finally moving into the top 300, then top 200, then top 150 (even though it was only for a week or two) and who knows, maybe even top 100 soon. Also it looks like her brother coaches her now, after years of spending money on Spanish and Italian coaches instead. Also it's pretty cool that Papamichail and Grammatikopoulou get to represent our country in Grand Slams as they are from Preveza and Kilkis. These are small cities which if you knew them, would not expect anyone from there to make it as a professional tennis player, especially since it's not like Greece is some tennis powerhouse.

Τελικά, τα κορίτσια κατέκτησαν το χάλκινο μετάλλιο

Eleni Chatziliadou (karate) She is only 28 yo. Won gold at the 2018 World Championships and also two other World Championships medals. Also won three European Championships medals between 2018 and 2021. Her injuries which ruined her chances of qualifying for last year's Olympics (the only time karate was part of the programme), seemed to also take away her motivation to continue the sport.

At least they have their pride and didn't sell themselves out for money like she did. To me that is more important than any Grand Slam title. And they did have offers from Australia but turned them down.

I think there hasn't been a tournament since 2019, so our current girls were U18 and U16 then but are punished because our U20 team from three years ago who didn't do well We won all of our games last year in the challenger but it didn't count for promotion/relegation.

Kazakhstan does not deserve to win a Grand Slam before Greece, sorry. Go Ons!

LEN Women's European Under 19 Water Polo Championships 2022: Quarter-Finals GREECE 20 - 5 FRANCE

Our women's U20 team just beat Albania 119-20 at the European Championships... It was 119-18 and Albania scored at the buzzer to reduce our lead from triple digits to double digits

Χαίρομαι που βλέπω πολλά ατομικά ρεκόρ!

Top 5 - 2022 Women's Throwing Events: Women's Shot Put: 1. Maria Magkoulia (2000) 2022-15.93 PB 2. Anastasia Dragomirova (2003) 2022-15.28i PB-15.69 (2021) 3. Sofia Kaisidou (1998) 2022-14.92i PB-15.76 (2019) 4. Maria Andreadi (2003) 2022-14.78 PB 5. Maria Souglakou (2002) 2022-14.59 PB Women's Discus Throw: 1. Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou (1991) 2022-62.40 PB 2. Despina-Areti Filippidou (2003) 2022-52.32 PB-55.12 (2021) 3. Sofia Kessidi (2002) 2022-50.57 PB-52.29 (2021) 4. Maria Alexeeva (2004) 2022-47.68 PB 5. Agapi Mavromatidou (2004) 2022-45.25 PB-46.15 (2021) Women's Hammer Throw: 1. Stamatia Scarvelis (1995) 2022-71.43 PB 2. Stavroula Kosmidou (2001) 2022-64.11 PB 3. Ekaterini Vamvoukaki (1994) 2022-59.00 PB-60.91 (2019) 4. Agoritsa-Lidia Gogouli (2003) 2022-58.05 PB 5. Natalia Magou (2003) 2022-55.41 PB Women's Javelin Throw: 1. Elina Tzengko (2002) 2022-65.40 PB 2. Ioanna Malli (2001) 2022-53.95 PB-55.33 (2021) 3. Melpomeni Grigoriadou (2000) 2022-53.60 PB-55.37 (2021) 4. Afroditi Maniou (1998) 2022-52.91 PB-55.34 (2021) 5. Theodora Arabatzi (1997) 2022-52.88 PB-55.47 (2017)

Top 10 - 2022 Men's Hammer Throw 1. Christos Frantzeskakis (2000) 2022-78.15 PB 2. Michail Anastasakis (1994) 2022-77.30 PB-77.72 (2017) 3. Ivan Menglebei (1995) 2022-73.44 PB 4. Konstantinos Zaltos (2000) 2022-72.51 PB 5. Georgios Korakidis (1998) 2022-70.51 PB 6. Orestis Ntousakis (2002) 2022-70.36 PB 7. Ioannis Korakidis (2003) 2022-70.05 PB 8. Markelo Mema (2001) 2022-68.83 PB 9. Theodoros Ziogas (2002) 2022-66.64 PB 10. Nikolaos Polychroniou (2003) 2022-66.42 PB-67.76 (2021)

Ο Βασίλης Σοφικίτης χάρισε στην εθνική ομάδα κολύμβησης το πρώτο της μετάλλιο στο ευρωπαϊκό πρωτάθλημα εφήβων-νεανίδων, κατακτώντας την 3η θέση στα 400μ. μικτή ατομική. Για τρία εκατοστά του δευτερολέπτου έμεινε εκτός βάθρου ο Απόστολος Σίσκος στα 200μ. ύπτιο.

Two additions, both in the men's shot put, Anastasios Latifllari and Nicholas Scarvelis.

2022 European Athletics U18 Championships Men's Hammer Throw: Bronze: Georgios Papanastasiou 77.37

Ο Γιάννης Φουντούλης και ο Μάνος Ζερδεβάς, μια ημέρα μετά την επιστροφή της εθνικής ομάδας υδατοσφαίρισης ανδρών από το παγκόσμιο πρωτάθλημα της Βουδαπέστης, προχώρησαν στις χειρουργικές επεμβάσεις που θα τους στερήσουν την παρουσία τους στο ευρωπαϊκό πρωτάθλημα του Σπλιτ. https://www.gazzetta.gr/polo/2131777/heiroyrgithikan-me-epityhia-oi-foyntoylis-kai-zerdebas

Trust me, us Tsitsipas fans would rather Kyrgios lose as soon as possible

Well he will be out with injury and so will Fountoulis (our captain)

2022 Wimbledon Men's singles: Third round: Nick Kyrgios AUS d. (4) Stefanos Tsitsipas GRE 6-7(2) 6-4 6-3 7-6(7) Girls' singles: First round: (16) Linda Klimovicova CZE d. Michaela Laki GRE 6-2 7-5

Bronze for our boys! In the end it's a good result so I can't complain. Only the third time we won a medal at the World Championships (we also won bronze in 2005 and 2015). I think we would be playing for the gold tonight if Zerdevas wasn't injured, but hopefully he will be okay for the European Championships next month.

Yes but I imagine he lived in France most of his life, no? A big difference from the athletes Turkey and Azerbaijan buy, who are nothing but mercenaries. Let's be honest here.

So it's okay when they do it but not other countries. Alright then. If Nyfantopoulos were Algerian instead of Greek, I'm sure you would have a different opinion...