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Tsanikidis already fought in London, so I guess we can't replace him? The article that I read about it did not mention anything.

Greece's Alexandros Tsanikidis will be unable to compete due to injury. He had already advanced to the round of 16 in the men's 63kg event

With Markos qualifying in swimming, we're now at 48. Also it looks like we will qualify in the men's and mixed medley relays, which will be confirmed tomorrow and have Meretsolias and Drakou added to the team. So basically we are guaranteed 10 swimmers (8 men and 2 women). Hopefully we can add some more, either with OST or OQT and also in open water. In Beijing we had 18 swimmers (11 men and 7 women), 14 swimmers in London (8 men and 6 women), and 14 in Rio (10 men and 4 women). Papamichail's quota will also become official tomorrow which will put us at 51. Not sure what is happening with weightlifting. The next two weeks will be busy with boxing, artistic swimming, karate, rhythmic gymnastics, tennis, and archery so we will gain more quotas. We just won five medals at the European Karate Championships last week so hopefully we can qualify a few athletes for Tokyo in that sport. And of course in athletics we have the national championships next weekend and hopefully some of our athletes who haven't yet qualified can achieve the standards there and won't have to worry about rankings anymore. A lot of our young/U23 and U20 athletes like Frantzeskakis, Karalis, Tzengko, Karydi, Pantazis have all been close so far.

in mixed 4x100 medley relay today got 3:45.38 in Athens. This puts us in a qualifying position. Also Dimitrios Markos in men's 800m freestyle swam in 7:53.07 to achieve OQT.

Agreed, plus some people didn't have chances to compete much in 2020 and underachieved then (if they even competed at all!)

I'm sorry, but you still should qualify in men's 4x200 freestyle relay at least. Didn't someone say that it would be the first time ever (or in many years) that Ireland sends a relay team? So that's something to be proud of. To be honest we procrastinated in trying to qualify. We didn't field our best team in Budapest because Gkolomeev had the 50m freestyle final the same day as the 4x100 medley so he skipped it. Now including him in the team made the difference. We qualified in this event in Rio as well so for us it would've been disappointing to not make it. Anyways overall this has been a disappointing qualification cycle for Greece so far, so I sympathise with you.

This x100. I honestly have no idea how people can be saying water polo. I guess their countries weren't affected so they don't understand. China, Canada, Australia, South Africa all did nothing to qualify. They made it by simply existing. If they want to give each continent representation, then there should be 12 teams like all other team sports and not 10. Or at least make Asia and Oceania combined. Ridiculous that Australia gets a free pass in so many team sports just because of their location. Women's water polo especially has always been flawed. I'll remind everyone of Greece's 2009-12 Olympic cycle results: 2009 Worlds-4th 2010 Euros-2nd 2011 Worlds-1st 2012 Euros-2nd Also won two World League bronze medals during these years. But we didn't qualify. Make it make sense.

Akropolis meeting in Athens Here is a video: And an article: http://sportsfeed.gr/tromerh-4x100m-meikti-agkalia-me-thn-olympiakh-prokrish/ Sorry the article is only in Greek. It also says that the qualification period ends in two days (for the relays I guess). Is that true? I never heard this before.

4 x 100 medley relay men swam to 3:34.61 which puts them into a qualifying position

Wow Panetsidou must've lost weight to compete in this category! Good for her because it would've been a shame if she didn't get a chance to make it to Tokyo as obviously Chatziliadou would've been preferred over her.

Still a chance for them to withdraw from women's water polo?

Amazing result for him, but he was already qualified for Tokyo

Miltiadis Tentoglou jumped 8.60 m in Athens today WL and PB (he previously had 8.32 outdoors and 8.38 indoors). So close to our national record also (8.66) He seemed to be stuck around 8.25-8.35 for a few years despite being very consistent. Happy that now he has surpassed that and really putting himself in a position to win a medal in Tokyo hopefully. I was concerned because he was struggling with injury but this is a great way for him to open his outdoor season (he competed two weeks ago in 100m only)

Well we're at 47 now. Within the next week, Alexandros Papamichail's quota place will be confirmed via ranking for the men's 50km walk so we'll have 48. Hopefully we can also qualify another shooter or two from the European Championships which are going on now. I'm not sure what's going on with weightlifting but I thought Iakovidis was in a good position to qualify and maybe Benteli. I think it depends on which athletes other countries nominate for Tokyo. I think weightlifting names will be announced next week. Swimming I thought we would get some quotas from the European Championships which did not happen, but we got a bunch of national records and medals which is a good sign. Hopefully others will make it in the next weeks or by having the next best times. Athletics it looks like Frantzeskakis is getting closer and closer to achieving the qualifying standard in the men's hammer throw. Even if he doesn't get it, I think he will make it from ranking anyways. Good for the 21 year old to be able to qualify for Tokyo. Anastasakis, Douvalidis, Karalis, Filippidis and probably Tsiamis (as well as Tentoglou and Papamichail who are already qualified) all also look like they will be able to qualify off the rankings based on their current positions and given how little time is left. I hope we can qualify some others but they'll have to do better over the next few weeks. Zikos, Scarvelis, Baniotis, Pantazis still have some chances to qualify probably. On the women's side for athletics, we have five currently qualified (Stefanidi, Papachristou, Kyriakopoulou, Drisbioti, Polak). It seems like Scarvelis and Tsinopoulou will definitely make it via rankings. Then we have a bunch of women either just barely qualified by ranking or just missing out (Vasiliou, Spanoudaki, Filtisakou/Papadopoulou - only one can make it as we already will have two others in that event, Anagnostopoulou, Pesiridou). Tzengko, Belibasaki, Zakka, Korosidou all don't have rankings right now because they don't have enough events, I think the first two should definitely be in Tokyo and can even make it by standard without needing rankings. Karydi and Gousin should also have some chances to make it, and very small chances for Kolokytha and Karagianni at this point. Also I guess Pappas is no longer trying to qualify? She ran one marathon last year and did great which was her first marathon ever and then she disappeared after. Also it looks like we are not trying to send a women's 4x400 m team anymore. What a disgrace because they had a good chance to qualify and we didn't even send them to world relays. The first few weeks of June I'm sure we'll see more quotas when the qualification ends for tennis, artistic swimming, judo, boxing, karate, gymnastics.

Chatziliadou is ranked 8th in women's +61kg, and what do you mean by Continental Games? Because she won medals at the last three European Championships as well as the last European Games.

Greece finally back in the top 10! We made it every year from 2004 to 2013 (except 2012 when the juries killed us), and we never made it back since 2013 until now.

Greece probably going to have our smallest team since 1992 or 1988. Only chance to avoid that is if we qualify men's basketball and/or women's artistic swimming team. 156 in Beijing, 103 in London, 93 in Rio and now we keep going down. We had 10 rowers in London and Rio and will only have 4 in Tokyo. We had 9 gymnasts in London and Rio, so far we have 0 in Tokyo.

Five medals for Greece, hopefully this is a good sign for the Olympic qualification and we can win a few quotas next month.

What is wrong with Nana Mouskouri?

Unless you're Sweden of course.

So interesting to see this from the perspective of the crowd

Seems like a lot of people here didn't like Greece and didn't want us to qualify. Weird. I actually was very impressed and pleasantly surprised with our performance yesterday. I thought it was our best performance since 2008, even though I don't really like the song. Of course if she was from Sweden it would automatically make the top 5 and everyone would be calling it a "masterpiece" Also the Cyprus singer is fully Greek born and raised in Athens, and the Albanian singer lived in Thessaloniki for 10 years and has a Greek grandparent and speaks fluent Greek, she was on one of our TV shows a few weeks ago. Happy that they all qualified. Also not sure why they keep making a big deal out of our singer being born and raised in the Netherlands. Yes that is true and the contest is in the Netherlands, but she is a Greek girl. Both of her parents are Greek, she speaks the language and her grandparents still live in Greece. The presenter yesterday made it seem like Greece just randomly selected a Dutch singer for no reason

Bronze for Christou in the 100m backstroke! It would've been nice to win a different medal since he also won bronze in this event in 2016 and 2018, but it's better than nothing. Second time ever swimming under 53 seconds (even though his semifinal time would've been enough for gold)

HUGE NR for Apostolos Christou in the 100 backstroke! He was first in the semifinals with 52.77. The previous record was 53.03 from Grigoriadis. Christou's previous personal record was 53.23. Christou won bronze in this event in 2016 and in 2018 again, hopefully now he can change the colour of the medal.

and each have one man born in the 2000s in their M8+