Makedonas

What an embarrassing choke from Greece. We led Italy 6-2 after the third period and the match ended in a draw 6-6. Obviously still a good result but never should've drawn from that position...

"Be careful what you wish for" Congrats to your Elina...

http://sportsfeed.gr/meion-ena-melos-i-elliniki-apostoli/ Sad news. The Greek team got tested before traveling to Tokyo. Unfortunately one of the duet girls tested positive for covid and will not be going to Tokyo with the rest of the girls. They didn't say yet who it is, so it's either Evangelia Papazoglou or Evangelia Platanioti (I guess we will find out eventually). I feel so sad. Also it says that the reserve athlete will take her spot in the team event, but that Greece will not be competing in the duet. I do not know if that was Greece's decision or the IOC/FINA's rules. EDIT-According to Wikipedia it is Evangelia Platanioti. And Papazoglou posted an Instagram story at the airport which confirms it's Platanioti. At least Platanioti got to go to London and Rio but this is still sad.

Yes it was raining but now the rain stopped and matches on other courts are starting soon

He made mistakes that he wasn't making earlier on. Actually lost 12 in a row because he quickly went down 0-3 in the next set. He then saved a match point in the 7th set and had another two of his own but couldn't convert. So 9 match points lost. So sad. He played the match of his life for the first three and a half sets.

Gionis 41 years old, in his 5th Olympics, looking to make the round of 16 for the first time. Up 3-1 10-3 and loses 9 points in a row... I don't see him turning this around now, what a choke...

Our young swimmer Konstantinos Englezakis won't be competing in Tokyo due to injury He reached OQT in the men's 800 freestyle and also got invited for 200 and 400, but was only going to swim the 800 due to his injury but now he won't be able to be ready by then I am happy though that he got to travel to Tokyo and attend the Opening Ceremony where very few Greek athletes actually went to march in the parade

Vasileia Karachaliou still in 2nd place after 4 races

You must be happy for Vekic though, no?

Theodora out in the first round

For Europe you mean, or? Cause Greece, Czechia, and Portugal are all a little bigger than Sweden by population, though all four countries are between 10 and 11 million people.

Yeah I knew about Monday. I remember this happening in Rio too. It's not uncommon in rowing, happened earlier this year at the European Olympic qualification regatta too. Also the Dutch rowers have these measures to deal with because of Finn Florijn?

Looks like no rowing Monday or Tuesday in Tokyo

Based on her surname, Lucie Anastassiou (shooting) has Greek origins

Sad that Anna Ntountounaki missed out on the finals in the women's 100 butterfly. She was so close finishing 9th, but with a new NR I can't complain! Best result for a Greek female swimmer at the Olympics since 2004. She has improved so much, I hope she can continue this and make the final in Paris, though she is already 25 years old.

Disappointing for Anna to not win a medal after a great qualification round, but 6th is still a good result and I am proud of her. Unfortunately many people in Greece don't understand the sport and their expectations are too high after she won medals in both of her events in Rio, they think she will do that every time. Obviously shooting is so tricky and unpredictable, it will be very hard for her to ever win two medals at the same Games again even if she is still very young for the sport.

Vasileia Karachaliou finished 2nd in the first race of the women's laser radial

Anneta Kyridou and Stefanos Ntouskos both into the semifinals of single sculls! Pretty expected but still nice to see it happen.

No American women in the second round. First time ever?

Thank you @Vektor That was a good win from us and great performance by our young goalkeeper Zerdevas. We were down 2-5 and I thought it would get ugly but luckily our team fought back. We have a lot of good players who play for top European clubs (including Olympiacos who won the Champions League for 2017-18 and second place 2019-20) but for some reason our national team always underachieves. Perhaps this is the year that we finally break through and win our first Olympic medal. I doubt it though. I say that every time and we always have the inevitable choke in the quarterfinals so who knows, but definitely a good start for our boys.

Great race by Christina and Maria to finish first out of four and advance to the semifinals. Now the pressure is off and they have nothing to lose. I had a feeling after the heats that there was no way China would survive the repechage.

Really hope Bourmpou and Kyridou survive the repechage. They did an amazing job to qualify in the women's pair in 2019 as 18 year olds. It would be a shame to finish in last place. Bourmpou was injured and couldn't train for a few weeks in May/June. I wonder if that impacted them. They won gold together at everything. World U23, Euro U23, World junior, Euro junior, Youth Olympics. This might be their last event together as both are going to American universities after these Games, and the Kyridou sisters said they want to be in the same boat together in Paris. So I'm not sure what will happen. Bourmpou is only 174cm so maybe she can join a lightweight double with Anastasiadou. Of course Bourmpou and Kyridou can still compete together at the U23 level next year, and just because the Kyridou sisters say they want to be in the same boat doesn't mean it will happen, it's not their decision at the end of the day to decide who is in what boat for the national team.

29-4 in the end. No surprise. At least Greece would've been competitive. I don't see how this helps South Africa to lose every game by huge margins.

Good first win over Maria. She was down 2-5 in the first set and saved set point to come back and win 7-5 6-2 over Kontaveit.

Would've been nice if they did this in advance. I hope it's not too late for them to be replaced by more deserving athletes.