Makedonas

Happy Easter to those who celebrate today. In Greece, we are Orthodox mostly and our Easter is next week (same with most Serbs, Russians, Bulgarians, Georgians, Ukrainians, Romanians etc)

London 2012 bronze medalist in rowing Christina Giazitzidou won the Greek National Championships today in Mountain Road Race (sorry I don't know the proper term in English but it's 20.5km). She retired from rowing at age 22 but now I guess she is a runner.

For me Lithuania is a masterpiece, I'm disappointed that others don't think the same, I think this song would be the winner if I were the only one voting

Πανελλήνιο Σχολικό Πρωτάθλημα: 2.12-Μιτα (U18EL) 19.52-Αντωνάτος 5.75-Κοϊκοπουλου

Tsimikas MOTM

Djokovic loses his first match in Monte Carlo against Davidovich Fokina...

After winning gold and bronze at the Rio Olympics in 2016, and now silver here, I'm sure Anna Korakaki wishes every competition took place in Rio de Janeiro

Very imbalanced women's draw. I'm not surprised, FINA's procedure for this was quite dumb. I mean Brazil in Pot 2 and Italy in Pot 3, seriously?! Also in addition to Russia, China will also be missing. I didn't notice until now. Both of our teams should have no issues reaching QF, as usual.

Thank you! Yes, the first gold medal for Greek RG in 20 years (2002 World Championships). Are our girls improved, or they only won because of the low level of competition? I know Bulgaria isn't the same team that won Olympic gold, but it would be nice for us to do well again after our OG participations got worse every time. 2000: Bronze 2004: 5th 2008: 9th 2012: 9th 2016: 13th 2020: Didn't qualify

Sorry I meant to say that, his main event is 200 IM which is why I made that typo And yes I know it is nothing special for others, but for us it is crazy to see how many NRs have been broken in the past few years from these swimmers. Just in the past year we've had new NRs in 12 events in the 50m pools.

(men) and (women) to replace Russia at the European Championships. In other words, two teams from the "same country" @hckošice

She has the Portuguese flag in her Instagram bio, and the Hellenic Olympic Committee unfollowed her on Instagram. She is living in Ireland now and coaching there to make money to fund her career (at least in Greece she was given some funding even if it may have been inadequate), and she allegedly represented Cote d'Ivoire at a regatta in Portugal recently. Apparently if she wants to represent Portugal in major international competitions, she has to sit out for three years so she would miss the 2024 Olympics unless ISAF makes an exception for her. Honestly this situation has been blown way out of proportion. The Hellenic Sailing Federation made plenty of mistakes, but Karachaliou is also stubborn and in some ways unreasonable for not cooperating with the Hellenic Olympic Committee when they were trying to solve these problems. Of course it is easy for me to talk when I do not know what goes on behind the scenes, but still... The issue is now she burnt her bridges with Greece, and if she comes back and decides to stay with Greece so she can go to Paris 2024, she might be treated worse than before, and also the sponsor that the Hellenic Olympic Committee got for her (which also unfollowed her) probably won't be willing to sponsor her again.

Big Greek NR in the men's 200 IM from Andreas Vazaios in Stockholm. He swam 1:46.94, the previous record was from him with 1:47.48 at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest. Kind of cool to see these Greek swimmers in their mid-late 20s like Vazaios, Gkolomeev, Ntountounaki, Christou continue to improve and have long careers in a sport where it is not uncommon for athletes to retire at young ages

I'm a bit surprised, our girls won bronze in Sydney 2000 and that group had also won medals at the World Championships back then (I think gold too)

So once again Georgiadou and Gkountoura can't both qualify in the women's sabre I hope Georgiadou makes it this time as she didn't get the chance to go to Tokyo. She's currently top 10 so it would be a shame for her to once again not even have the opportunity to go. Plus Gkountoura is much younger and will have more chances after Paris (plus she already went to Tokyo).

@phelps Elisa Mondelli is the sister of Filippo?

Anastasia - Amarties This song is very popular in Greece right now, it was released less than three months ago and already has over 16 million views (for Greek songs those are very good statistics). I hope everyone here enjoys this song as much as we do

LEN Euro League Women - Final: Olympiacos 11 - 7 CN Sabadell

LEN Euro League Women - Final: Olympiacos 11 - 7 CN Sabadell Second consecutive title for Olympiacos and third overall They now have the most Euro League titles of any Greek team, as Glyfada and Vouliagmeni each won only twice. Also revenge for Olympiacos after losing to Sabadell in the 2019 final. 21 yo Maria Myriokefalitaki was the hero of the final with 3 goals

Επι κοντώ γυναικών: 4.65 η Στεφανιδη. Καλή αρχή στη σεζόν. 4.15 η 18χρονη Ρετσα. Νέο ατομικό ρεκόρ (είχε 4.14 από το 2020). Σφυροβολία γυναικών: 70.43 η Σκαρβελη. Άνοιξε τη σεζόν με τη δεύτερη καλύτερη βολή της καριέρας της 55.41 η 18χρονη Μάγου - Νέο ατομικό ρεκόρ (είχε 52.77 από πέρυσι). 1500 γυναικών: Ατομικό ρεκόρ από την 19χρονη Δεληγιαννη με 4:17.36 (είχε 4:22.23 από πέρυσι) αλλά και από την 19χρονη Σπύρου με 4:19.12 (είχε 4:19.55 από πέρυσι) 5000 γυναικών: Μεγάλο ατομικό ρεκόρ από τη 20χρονη Λαβασά με 16:23.51 (είχε ατομικό 16:59.73 από το 2019) Σφυροβολία ανδρών: 70.96 ο Ζαλτος. 3η καλύτερη επίδοση της καριέρας του, και φαίνεται ότι θα κάνει ένα μεγάλο ατομικό ρεκόρ πολύ σύντομα (έχει 71.21 από πέρυσι). Δισκοβολία ανδρών: 53.60 ο 18χρονος Παυλιδης, βελτίωσε το ατομικό που είχε από πέρυσι (49.22) Δέκαθλο: 7917 ο Σπυριδωνίδης, 2ος όλων των εποχών στην Ελλάδα Ειχε ατομικό 7273 από το 2018, 7426 από το 2019, δεν αγωνίστηκε το 2020, 7665 το 2021, και τώρα 7917. Ας θυμηθούμε ότι το πανελλήνιο ρεκόρ ανδρών ανήκει στον Πρόδρομο Κορκιζογλου από το 2000 (8069).

Do not underestimate the ability of the referees to "help" Qatar

LEN Euro League Women - Final Four: Olympiacos 18 - 11 UVSE Olympiacos into the final for the third year in a row! Hopefully they win their second title in a row. Between the three Plevritou sisters, Eleftheriadou, Xenaki, and Myriokefalitaki, things are looking good for the Greek national team, especially now that they are a little older and more experienced

Sorry if it was mentioned before, but the women's marathon will be on the final day of competition instead of the men's marathon

Unfortunately Prevolaraki lost in the final and ends with silver. So at European Championships she has 4 silvers and 2 bronze. I don't know if she'll ever get a better chance to win gold I want to consider her the best Greek female wrestler ever, but Sofia Poumpouridou won gold at both the World and European Championships. Even though Prevolaraki has far more total medals, she doesn't have gold in either. Poumpouridou only went to the Olympics once though and ended her career earlier. Prevolaraki has already been to the Olympics 3x and if she makes Paris then that would be the 4th one.