Makedonas

Both of these happened and were fun, silver in water polo and gold in rowing

Congratulations to Serbia on another gold medal. I am proud of our team. I think we had some chances to win gold. We conceded two penalties and had a low % conversion with the exclusions and missed some opportunities, but it's okay. Silver is still a great result for our team and I think this can be the start of many medals for Greece because our team is so young compared with other big teams. For example our oldest player (Fountoulis) is 33. Serbia has 7 players older than him. Serbia's youngest player (Jaksic) is 24. We have 4 players younger than him. Hungary and Croatia for example also have very old teams compared with Greece. I am optimistic about the future

I agree, usually we don't have any events the last two days of the Olympics or we only have events with no chances of medals, so this was cool. Had our team lost in the quarterfinals like they usually do, we would not have had any events the last two days at all.

So in the end we got 4, but Petrounias and Tentoglou did win medals. Although we didn't win as many as I would have liked, we were pretty close and I think these were decent Games for us. We had many young athletes come very close to winning medals and I think Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 will be very very good for us!

At least some of these happened...

^And some more: Kynigakis (22) finishing 5th in the men's 10km swim marathon, amazing result for his age and it looks like we found the new Gianniotis. Filtisakou (20) finishing 29th in the women's 20km walk is also impressive. A year ago I never would've expected her to make it to the Olympics so that's a nice surprise. I hope she can continue to improve. Plus an amazing performance from our men's water polo team to secure a medal. We are pretty young too, I hope this will be the first of many. Also she's 37 so not young, but great result for Drisbioti finishing 8th in the women's 20km walk. She was 15th in Rio and hasn't ruled out Paris. Would be difficult but I'd love to see her improve there too. Still sad that our artistic swimming girls didn't get to compete, but they are very young. Most of the girls are teenagers still. So we end with 4 medals. It could've been better but also could've been worse. I am proud of so many of these results (also Stefanidi 4th and Kyriakopoulou 8th). I think 2024 and 2028 will be really great for us. I'm excited for those Games.

And gold for Ivet Goranova in karate! Best Olympics for Bulgaria in a long time! Congrats!

So true! I remember a Serbian friend saying so in 2016 when Djokovic went out early and some of the Serbian teams in team sports (men's water polo, women's basketball, men's basketball) were doing very poorly. They ended up with 8 medals including 4 from team sports.

Well I got 2/3

Well to be honest I thought we had to beat Hungary to win a medal, and that if we lost to you then we would have finished 4th. But now that we are in the final as the underdog I think we have a chance and there's no pressure on us. We will see...

Greek water polo player Stylianos Argyropoulos celebrated his 25th birthday on 2 August, when Greece beat USA 14-5

I am so proud of this team. Thank you to all of the kind Hungarians on here who are congratulating us and wishing us luck for the final. We appreciate it and we hope that Hungary doesn't get 4th place in both men's and women's. I will cheer for your teams. This means so much for us honestly. Water polo really isn't a big sport in Greece to be honest, just in a few coastal towns outside Athens and a couple of islands the sport is popular, and in the rest of the country no one really plays it. But this is a big result for us and people are getting excited about water polo throughout the country (it also helps that this is the only event for Greece left in the Olympics after the women's race walk which will end within the next two hours). In our 16th Olympic appearance in men's water polo we finally got a medal. Those of us who follow our national team have been waiting many years for this and we have been disappointed many times but eventually we finally did it. I know this might be a surprise for some people (and to be honest even we are surprised because we expected to be disappointed again), but our team really deserves it. People might not be used to seeing our team win medals and do well (though we had a few good runs in 2004-2005 and 2015-2017), but on paper we should be achieving such results. We have many good, talented players and it never made sense how our national team just couldn't achieve these big results with the players we have. Especially since our club teams typically do very well and also our national team players who play for other European clubs outside Greece. Now we get the chance to go for gold! It will be very difficult but we definitely have a shot. No Greek team in any team sport has ever won gold at the Olympics, so this will be really special.

We are struggling so much on offense and so many of our key players with fouls and exclusions

Still sad that this was the last 50km race. I wish we could get rid of the mixed relays and surfing and sport climbing, skateboarding, 3x3 basketball and other ridiculous events that have no business in the Olympics

No surprise Papamichail is at the very bottom. Not that he was going to be close to a medal anyways, but he had to do a 10 day quarantine because someone near him on the plane tested positive so he was unable to properly train for this the last two weeks.

As our girls will not be competing due to multiple positive tests for COVID-19, I wanted to post this to give them some recognition. I hope some of you take the time to watch their routine. This was the first time that we qualified in the team event since 2004 (where we only qualified as host nation). Our girls worked very hard especially over the last two years to try to qualify. We also have a very young team. 6 of the girls are still teenagers. We have two 19 year olds (Kariori and Vasilopoulou), two 18 year olds (Karamesiou and Misikevych), one 17 year old (Fragkaki), and one 16 year old (Gialama). This gives me some hope that maybe we can make it back to the Olympics in the future, although it will be tough as we barely qualified this time and next time Japan won't have the host spot. Still, we have by far the youngest team of all nations in Tokyo so I guess there is plenty of room for improvement over the next three years.

Tomorrow (Friday) we still have our men's water polo semifinal, the race walkers, and a wrestler. Then on Saturday we have nothing except maybe our wrestler if he advances that far. Sunday we just have men's water polo, either the gold medal match or bronze match. It's sad that the Olympics are basically over for Greece. Hopefully we win a medal in water polo though. Without them making it to the semifinals, these Games would be so boring the next few days.

Greece's medalists all left so I'm not sure who will do it, maybe the captain of the water polo team especially if we win a medal?

I hope your girls can get bronze! I say that knowing I don't want your men's team to win their semifinal of course

Too bad that Stefanidi couldn't win a medal, but the three medalists were all better than her both tonight and in this season in general so congrats to them! So Greece got 4th place in both men's and women's pole vault competitions here Also 8th place for Kyriakopoulou is a nice result. She deserved to make an Olympic final in her career and I'm happy she finally did it even though tonight's competition was a mess from everyone outside the top 4.

Neither Kazakh girl cleared 1.90m in the women's high jump, after both needed 3 attempts to clear 1.86m.

Congrats to all medalists! Very happy that Kynigakis finished 5th. Just 22 years old. Looks like the future of Greek marathon swimming is in good hands even after Gianniotis' retirement. Overall I'm so proud of our Greek athletes despite the small number of medals so far in Tokyo. We had so many people in their late teens and early 20s achieve good results and it really makes me confident for 2024 and 2028.

10-4 So proud of our boys! Undefeated after six games This is the first semifinal at a big tournament (not counting World League) for our team since the 2017 World Championships At the Olympics it is just our second semifinal ever in 16 appearances, now hopefully we can get our first medal.

Yeah I'm confused about the new race walks. I wish they'd just add 50km for women but apparently there will still be 20km for both and some sort of 35km mixed relay? It's getting annoying that they try to make mixed events in every single sport...

I'm still feeling very good about these Games despite only winning 3 medals so far. I think men's water polo, Stefanidi and Prevolaraki are all very good medal chances as well as smaller chances for Volikakis, Kynigakis, Kyriakopoulou, Pilidis... The biggest highlight from Tokyo for me has been seeing how many good young athletes we have which makes me confident for the future. Ntouskos (24) and Tentoglou (23) winning gold medals is really great, and I expect to see them both back in Paris which would also be very nice. If they can stay healthy then I think they can take medals there as well. Karalis (21) coming 4th in the men's pole vault was a nice surprise. It looks like he is finally in the right direction again and I'm excited about his future. Bourmpou (20) and Kyridou (20) finishing 5th in the women's pair in rowing was also an incredible result for their ages, and I think they can also perhaps win a medal in Paris. Sakkari (26) and Tsitsipas (22) maybe didn't win medals, but in total we won 5 matches in tennis after not being represented in the sport since 2008 (and not winning any matches since 2004), so it was still a positive showing and I think in 2024 they will do even better. Teltsidou (25) finishing 7th in judo was a pleasant surprise, and I hope this gives her the confidence to take the next step in her career and start to become a medal contender in future competitions. Korakaki (25) finishing 6th in both shooting events is a tremendous accomplishment even if she won two medals in 2016. In a sport like shooting where age isn't so important, she will obviously be around for at least another 5-6 Olympics and I think it is fair to expect more medals from her. Karachaliou (24) finishing 9th in sailing was not bad for her first Olympics and I think we will see her in Paris, Los Angeles and maybe Brisbane. Ntountounaki (25) 9th in women's 100m butterfly. Best result from a Greek female swimmer since 2004. She seems like a late bloomer and hopefully she can keep improving and make the final in 2024. Same goes for Christou (24) in the men's 100m backstroke who was 11th. A.Kyridou (22) finishing 10th in the women's single sculls is also very good for her age. Everyone else who finished above her was 6+ years older than her. I think she can also win a medal in Paris, regardless of whether she competes in the single sculls or not (probably it is more likely for her to change categories). Tzeli (19) finishing 7th in taekwondo was also good even though she didn't win any matches. I liked what I saw from her and the fact that she qualified is very positive and a good sign for the future. Gkountoura (24) was disappointing that she lost so early in fencing but like Tzeli, I think she has a good future ahead of her. In field events, Scarvelis (25) and Polak (24) I think can do even better in Paris and make the finals in their events. Same goes for Anastasakis (26) and Frantzeskakis (21). Papastamos (20) had the second-best time of his career in the men's 400 IM and finished 14th. In Paris I think he can make the final. Divari (21) and Spanaki (20) in sailing didn't do so well but both are very young so it's okay. Same with Markos (19) in swimming. Obviously there are other young athletes like Pilidis, Kynigakis, Filtisakou and those on the men's water polo team who did not compete or did not finish yet. Also it's very nice that a lot of our older athletes like Psarra, Douvalidis, Kokkalanis, Tsiamis, Filippidis etc. showed a desire to continue to Paris. I think we can have a big team in Paris, maybe even 150+ if rowing goes well and we make it in more team sports (women's water polo, men's basketball, maybe women's basketball). Also Gkolomeev and Petrounias both expressed desire to win medals in Paris which is nice that they want to still compete at a high level.