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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+

Does anyone know when we will have a full list of rowers going to Tokyo and who gets selected? I wonder if there will be anyone born in the 2000s aside from our two Greek girls in the women's pair, Christina Bourmpou (2000) and Maria Kyridou (2001). They won the quota together as 18 year olds at the 2019 World Championships. I am curious to see if they will be the youngest rowers. Now that Foester failed to qualify I can't think of anyone else who is younger.

I think that this is only our fifth gold ever at the European Championships (Grigoriadis won in 2008 and 2012, Drymonakos in 2008, and Vazaios in 2016)

First since Andreas Vazaios in 2016 (men's 200 individual medley) Pretty sure this is the first gold medal ever for Greek women's swimming. I think we've done it at the junior level and in open water swimming but definitely not in the pool. Even better that this is an Olympic event too (100 butterfly). Women's swimming in our country has never been good, except for an occasional bronze or something at a European Championships once in a while. This is a big improvement. We've improved so much in swimming over the past 5-10 years even though it's been mostly men's swimming (Gkolomeev, Vazaios, Papastamos, Christou etc) Anna won bronze in this event at the 2019 short course Euros so I wasn't too surprised about the medal but gold, wow! So proud of her and she totally smashed her own NR.

It would be reallocated back to Japan because they finished third in Lucerne? Would be crazy in that case. Foester could've qualified but she stopped rowing midway through the race (though the Japanese girl was actually doing way better than I expected and very well may have finished above Foester regardless)

One of them just posted that he achieved the standard so I guess it counts. He was already qualified for two other events in Tokyo, so that's probably why they didn't make a big deal out of it.

Thank you. Does it also count for an Olympic quota? None of the Greek sports sites mentioned that, they only talk about NR

Crazy men's 4 x 100 freestyle relay final! NRs for 5 of the 8 countries. Congrats Our NR was 3:14.42 from 2016, now we got 3:13.39 and fifth place. Third European Championships in a row where we finished in the top 5. Hopefully in 2022 we can finally win a medal in this relay. We also set NRs today in men's 50m backstroke, men's 400m freestyle, and equaled NR in women's 100m butterfly. Hopefully tomorrow we will set new NRs in men's 50m backstroke and women's 100m butterfly again, and win medals in those events. Also our first relay swimmer in men's 4x100 freestyle broke the NR in men's 100m freestyle. Not sure if that is official because it was in the relay. It's good enough for OQT for Tokyo (48.39 and the OQT is 48.57).

So proud of Anneta Kyridou She dominated the women's single sculls. She has been through so much over the past five years and especially after the last two years. She never gave up though. Pausing her education to fully focus on training, her mother getting cancer, fainting at a training camp, filing a lawsuit against the federation, switching from W2X to LW2X to W1X within the past 20 months, and making it to the Olympics at just 22 years old in a difficult event. She didn't get the chance to qualify at the 2019 World Championships because her partner in W2X got injured at the last moment, and then at the European Qualifying Regatta last month she fell into the water a few minutes before the race. This was basically her one chance to qualify and she did amazing. Greece now being represented in Tokyo in the women's single sculls for the first time since 1996 I think.