Greek gymnasts picked up two titles on Saturday in the first day of finals at the Ljubljana World Challenge Cup in Slovenia. 2010 world champion Eleftherios Kosmidis claimed the floor exercise gold medal with tumbling runs of 1 1/2, punch double front; tucked double-double; double-twisting front to barani, 2 1/2 to punch front full; layout [...]
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Putin Wants Wrestling Kept In Olympics
Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized a decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to drop wrestling from the games and also asked for the Russian martial art of Sambo to be included. “The exclusion from the Olympic program of traditional sports which have initially been incorporated in the Olympic Games’ program, since the time [...]
Greece Backs Turkey For 2020 Olympics
With the selection of a host city for the 2020 Olympic Games down to Madrid, Istanbul and Tokyo and the winner to be named on Sept. 13, Greece has thrown its support behind its neighbor Turkey. Enemies for 400 years during the Ottoman Occupation, and again almost a centur ago during another war between them, [...]
AO Giannina’s Wonder Goal
Forget Brazil 1970, Argentina 2006 or the current Barcelona team – the greatest team goal ever may have been scored by a bunch of kids in Greece. The following video shows the team in orange playing amazing team work as they string 20 passes together straight from kick-off before finding the net. It is not [...]
Zoe Dimitrakos Scores in French Basketball – and Beauty
Zoe Dimitrakos is a Greek basketball player in France but it’s more than her athletic prowess that has gotten her so many adoring fans: the French have fallen in love with her classic Greek beauty. Being 1.87 meters tall and with dark brown hair, this Greek goddess as French call her, has become popular in [...]
British Fulham Signs Greece’s Captain, Karagounis
Giorgos Karagounis, a former player for the Greek football team Panathinaikos, will play for the British Fulham, as GreekReporter reported earlier this week. The 35-year-old captain of the Greece national team joins on a free transfer, having been without a club since his contract with Panathinaikos ended earlier this year. Fulham said it had signed him [...]
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