Makedonas

There have been some clues in the Greek media and based on that I am 99% sure it is Kyriaki Filtisakou, a race walker. And yesterday our Olympic committee announced there will be 100 athletes going to Paris (when before they were saying there would be 101).

I thought "Gruzja" was Greece at first and got excited until I saw "Grecja" Which 7 medals do you have for us?

Only 3 medals for us and 1 of them is from Despina Georgiadou who isn't even qualified for Paris

Not too much but people are starting to talk about it mostly because the basketball team just qualified and they got a lot of media attention. Otherwise, no one is really talking about specific athletes/teams for other sports but in general people are slowly starting to talk about the Olympics. And I think once the Olympics start people will be more interested.

Well Tsitsipas always plays Davis Cup and we only have one other guy in the top 500 (who ironically has never played Davis Cup), so our situation is worse than Bulgaria's. Probably there are other reasons why Dimitrov never plays.

Well in the end I underestimated us in water polo (but only because I had 12 per team and not 13) and tennis, overestimated us in weightlifting (I didn't take into account the reduction of events/quotas and we missed out for the first time since 1956), taekwondo, sailing (I didn't take into account all the new category changes and this is the smallest sailing team we've had in decades), cycling-track (first time not qualifying in decades), cycling-mountain bike, boxing (I didn't take into account the reduction of quotas and also we had a few of our top boxers retire after Tokyo), athletics (our smallest team since 1992, we had a bunch of multi-time Olympians who didn't qualify this year for various reasons and some young talents who I thought would be ready by now but are not), and archery (first NQ since 1996).

I'm late on this but yes Paolini has improved a lot this year, she had 3 deep runs however she only had 1 top 10 win total in those runs combined, Rybakina at Roland Garros who played a horrible match... She made back to back slam finals with only one win in each tournament over a seeded player in a completed match. It will be interesting to see how she does at the WTA Finals because she has proven she can beat lower ranked players very consistently but not against the top girls.

Milan Trajkovic and Elena Kulichenko Very Greek sounding names

https://sportsfeed.gr/apokleistiko-thetiko-deigma-ntopingk-stin-elliniki-olympiaki-omada-stivoy/ One of our athletes tested positive for doping, they aren't releasing the name yet, but they said it is a woman and that the first alternate in her event is another Greek (although it may seem impossible at this point for her to compete), so it must be one of the race walkers...

Well in the end Giannis Antetokounmpo was chosen with...Antigoni Drisbioti. Apparently, it was agreed that Giannis would be the male flag bearer and there was a vote between Drisbioti, Sakkari, Evangelia Platanioti, and Margarita Plevritou and Drisbioti won the vote. I think it's very random and even some of the other voting options were random. Girls like Teltsidou, Kaztouraki, and Gkountoura who have chances for medals would've been better in my opinion. Or Tzengko even but I guess having two children of immigrants as the flag bearers would've seemed too political. Sakkari is ranked higher than Drisbioti, is more well known, was closer to winning a medal than Drisbioti in the past, and has a better chance of winning one in Paris than all the others except maybe Plevritou. Drisbioti gave a sob story to the Greek media a few years ago about not receiving support (which I agree with btw) and she became known and it became trendy to support her (I like her too but think it's excessive, and people probably don't realise that most of her big medals were in a non-Olympic category), but she is good at walking which she will need to do at the opening ceremony so

I haven't seen it on our sports sites, but it is interesting that suddenly the snake Sloukas cares about morals after what he did in the past year (I am bitter about his decisions regarding club basketball, don't mind me )

She is a tennis player, she has been ranked in the top 10 for almost 3 years now She has around 600.000 followers on Instagram also, and was in a Netflix show, she is quite popular and also is dating our Prime Minister's son for several years!

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Thank you! Sorry for Croatia, hopefully we will both be in LA 2028!

It is expected that we will announce in the next hours Giannis Antetokounmpo and Maria Sakkari Apparently, Tentoglou and Stefanidi declined as their events don't start until much later, and Ntouskos is competing at 10:00 AM on Day 1, and Petrounias and Korakaki already did it in Tokyo, so we decided to go for the famous athletes. Well, I think it will be hard for other countries to match our star power!

Such a shame that like , will also probably have their first ever Olympic medal come from a naturalised athlete who has nothing to do with the country... Also in before they start trying to claim Dimas, Sabanis, and Kokas Manjani and I think Mitrou were actually Albanians though to be fair.

Our two gold medalists from Tokyo will be back (Ntouskos in rowing and Tentoglou in long jump), also we have three other gold medalists from Rio who will be in Paris (Stefanidi in pole vault - got 4th in Tokyo, Korakaki in shooting - got 6th in Tokyo, Petrounias in gymnastics - got bronze in Tokyo).

Any word on our final roster? @George_D It seems Kostas Antetokounmpo will not be able to play due to his new injury, I read that Kouzeloglou will be the backup due to the position he plays. Not exactly an Olympic level player...Is Agravanis still struggling with injury? Also what about Sloukas and Papapetrou who claim to be injured, will they be back in time and if so will they join the team? I can't see Moraitis going considering he barely played in the OQT and is our "weakest" player probably.

I hate these new formats but of course if UEFA can make a bigger profit they will change everything!

We end with 101, our most since London 2012! Getting back in men's basketball and women's water polo, both for the first time since 2008, certainly helped! Otherwise we would have 76 which would've been our smallest team since Barcelona 1992! For @Benolympique Artistic Swimming 2F Athletics 4M 10F Basketball 12M Cycling 1M Equestrian 1F Fencing 1F Gymnastics 1M Judo 1M 1F Rowing 3M 4F Sailing 3M 1F Shooting 2M 3F Swimming 14M 3F Table Tennis 1M Tennis 2M 2F Waterpolo 13M 13F Wrestling 2M 1F In total 59M + 42F = 101 Unfortunately no weightlifting for the first time since 1956!

I was confused why you said this until I realised I wrote 10km instead of 10m

What?? It doesn't show any message for me.

I've actually been to that bar...several times

Spot on @Monzanatorabout Gauff. She's had a horrible year so far in my opinion, every time I've watched her play she has been dreadful but she gets so many easy draws in every tournament and is able to somehow find her way in the latter stages of many tournaments before finally facing good opposition. I mean compare her draws to Swiatek's or Rybakina's for example and they are so so different!

I find her to be fake and arrogant. There are many examples of her attitude/approach to the sport since winning the US Open that I have questioned (such as always firing coaches, questionable retirements from matches/tournaments, refusing to play qualifying at Roland Garros as if she is entitled to unlimited wildcards, and many more). You don't have to go too far back, I mean even a few days ago she withdrew from mixed doubles which was obviously very controversial as it was Murray's last Wimbledon. She shouldn't have agreed to play with him if she wasn't willing to go through with it. Also her fans and the British media have been unbearable anytime she's done well (which is rare but still), acting like she is the queen of the sport or something . I thought she was for sure supposed to have 10 GS by now the way they acted when she first became big? I mean even a few days ago they asked Sakkari how special it would be to play Raducanu at Wimbledon or something like that (I forgot exactly how they worded it), as if Raducanu is Serena and Sakkari is some unknown player in her first big tournament...I know that's not Emma's fault but it certainly doesn't help her cause but I'm sure she is happy to play along as long as they give her the big money...