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In that case both girls are Japanese so I don't think the Japanese NOC would refuse those quotas. Greek girl is #35, so she might miss out by one spot in the end. Shame, but she only has herself to blame for choking under pressure after throwing over 60m five times last year as a 17 year old and only being able to do it once when it counted for the rankings...

Only 30 women in the javelin throw and not 32? Yu and Ratej missing Why couldn't they add the 33rd and 34th placed girls? Both are Japanese also, so they'll probably be in Japan anyways Also if it's because they didn't withdraw in time, that's really annoying because Ratej is 39 years old and hasn't competed in two years. You didn't have to be a rocket scientist to think that she probably wasn't going to Tokyo

Ntousakis 4th in the men's hammer throw , Emmanouilidou 6th in the women's 100m, and Kessidi 7th in the women's discus Tzengko probably our only chance to win a medal at this point, unless Deligianni can sneak a medal in the women's 800m. She's already in the final. Small chances also for Chatzipourgani (women's 400m hurdles), Dragomirova (women's shot put), and Retsa (women's pole vault), though all of these girls have been disappointing in 2021 so far and not at their best. Overall though I was only expecting 2-3 medals from this Greek team so I'm not going to be too disappointed. Plus we had a bunch of PBs and one U20NR, and I think we'll get a few more PBs and U20NRs tomorrow and Sunday. EDIT-I forgot about Emmanouilidou in the women's 200m. I think she'll make the final and then anything is possible from there but I don't think she'll win a medal. Hopefully I'm wrong about that.

He's lost all five of his outdoor hard court finals, but they were against Djokovic, Federer, Nadal, Zverev and Thiem. Of these, only Djokovic and Zverev are going to Tokyo. Medvedev is also going to Tokyo of course.

He made semifinals at two of the last three Australian Opens and also made the final of Toronto (beating 4 top 10 players in the tournament) and semifinals of Cincinnati and Shanghai masters tournaments Also had good results making finals of Dubai twice and Acapulco, Beijing

Decent first day for Greece. 16 year old Vasiliki Kallimogianni with a big PB and new U20NR in 3000m steeplechase. Greeks are usually very poor at middle and long distance events, so having her is a really nice surprise and she's still so young. Hoping for a new U20NR in the final. A medal seems unlikely but she'll be back in 2023 and can win a medal then. Polyniki Emmanouilidou making the final of the women's 100m is also very good, and she got a new PB (11.55). She'll still be in this category next year so I think then she can possibly break Thanou's U20NR but we'll see. Konstantinos Gennikis 7th in men's shot put with PB, very good for him. Elli Deligianni now into the semifinals of the women's 800. As I said, Greece is historically poor at these distances so that's good for her and hopefully in the final she'll achieve a new PB (she was very close today) which would also be a new U20NR. Anastasia Antonopoulou 13th in women's 10km walk. Considering she's only 16 and this was her first race back from injury, that's a pretty good result. Hope she can come back and get a medal at this event in 2023. Women's pole vault we had our 16 year old talent Iliana Triantafyllou just miss out on the final because of countback. Disappointing but she will have other chances in the future and our 17 year old Anastasia Retsa made the final. Really nice to have all these 16 and 17 year olds doing so well at U20 this year. It's too bad the U18 championships were cancelled because I think we would've won some medals there for sure. Disappointing that only one of our male hammer throwers made the final, considering we had four with the standard (obviously only three could compete). But I think he (Orestis Ntousakis) has a chance to win a medal. Also very disappointing that Despina Filippidou didn't make the final in the women's discus. She threw over 55m less than two weeks ago so I thought maybe she could win a medal here. Our other girl Sofia Kessidi made the final at least. Happy Andreas Antonakopoulos (men's long jump) and Sotiria Rapti (women's triple jump) also qualified for finals and I don't think they can get medals but would be nice if they could get new PBs. Rapti is another 17 year old.

Yes because of Zika, but I don't remember too many people withdrawing. I remember Halep and Cibulkova.

This didn't really happen in Beijing, London, or Rio though

You seriously think these three are more safe than Petrounias?! Tennis is unpredictable, shooting is even more unpredictable, and Stefanidi has struggled post-pandemic. I would say 1. Petrounias (gymnastics) 2. Tentoglou (long jump) 3. Tsitsipas (tennis)

https://twitter.com/vika7/status/1415688683076923394/photo/1 Azarenka out

Athletes with origins representing other countries in Tokyo (there may be more but so far this is what I know): Anna-Maria Alexandri (artistic swimming) - Born and raised in Greece, moved to Austria at age 15. Previously competed for Greece. Eirini-Marina Alexandri (artistic swimming) - Same as above, they are triplet sisters (the other sister also competes but not going to the Olympics) Kristina Alvertsian (athletics) - She has distant Armenian roots but was born and raised in Greece and recently started competing for Armenia three weeks ago (she got the universality place so obviously she wouldn't have qualified if she still competed for Greece). Stephania Haralabidis (water polo) - She was born and raised in Greece and her father played for the Greek men's national team, and she also played for the Greek national team until 2015. She lived in USA since 2013 (university) and stayed and began competing for USA in 2018, although after she got Greek citizenship she came back to Greece to play club water polo. I guess she only cares about Greece when it's convenient for her, sad. Helen Maroulis (wrestling) - Greek father and she sometimes competes in Greece. In the town where her grandparents live in Greece, they named the main square after Helen after she won gold in Rio. Alexander Massialas (fencing) - Greek father and Taiwanese mother Sabrina Massialas (fencing) - Same as above Nefeli Papadakis (judo) - Greek father and Filipino mother. She trains in Greece sometimes. Sideris Tasiadis (canoeing) - Has Greek parents and lived in Greece for 10 years during his childhood. Elena Vesnina (tennis) - Greek maternal grandfather Afrodite Zegers (sailing) - Born and raised in Greece but moved to the Netherlands some years ago and is married to a Dutch guy.

Apparently the source I saw that on was wrong and he was born in Cyprus and not Georgia

Sometimes it's better to keep your mouth closed when you don't have anything nice to say...

I love how she is referring to Tokyo as her "second Olympic participation" In that case, I hope she gets her "second" Olympic medal

Football and the Olympics both came home in 2004

Greece held Eurovision, UEFA Euro and Eurobasket all at the same time in 2004-05, so you still have more work to do if you want to be on our level

So sad for the English. Normally I don't like them (talking about football and has nothing to do with the country/people, I've been to London and it's probably my favourite city in the world), but I wanted them to win today. This meant so much to them but I just knew they would lose in penalties as they always do. Italy usually wins on penalties too (in recent years at least it seems that way).

Only Greeks and Danes are capable of winning the Euros and not qualifying for the next World Cup

In 2016 people said that about Tsitsipas making the boys' doubles final and being from Greece. You never know, maybe in a few years Jordan will have a top 10 player too!

No one was preventing Duplantis from going there if he really wanted to

I agree, however I was very curious about this because usually they don't have Olympic events in the World Championships during Olympic years, but 2020 was supposed to be the Olympic year. I guess it doesn't matter anymore though.

We have 83 (including an alternate for water polo and artistic swimming) but no official announcement has been made yet as far as I know. We are waiting until 14 July I think. Apparently we might get another quota in gymnastics from reallocation. At least this is what I heard, so we are waiting to see and we will know by 14 July.

We beat Croatia 11-7 to win bronze in boys water polo This Spyridon Lykoudis kid scored 5 goals, will be interesting to watch his development over the next years. We finished athletics and rowing with 4 medals in each. Again I will say that I think we can build a really good rowing team for Paris. Ntouskos is the only male rower we are sending to Tokyo, but now we had Palaiopanos/Stergiakas (M2X) and Papakonstantinou (LM1X) all win gold medals. And our female medalists are all young. 19 yo Anastasiadou got silver in LW1X and 18 yos Arabatzi/Fragkou got bronze in W2X. We didn't qualify for LW2X or W2X in Tokyo, so that's another good chance for us. Plus of course with a healthy Asoumanaki and Nikolaidou, and others who compete in the US university teams like Tsamopoulou, Christodoulidis, Pergouli, Vontzou, Noni, Agioti...we have many options. Of course there are also some girls who are even younger like Natsioula, Leventelli and also a bunch of girls from Thessaloniki who won medals at the European Junior Championships last year. The European U20 Athletics Championships next weekend will also be quite interesting. Tzengko, Filippidou, Emmanouilidou, Chatzipourgani, Dragomirova, Chytas, and the three guys in the hammer throw are the ones I'm looking forward to the most.