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World Athletics Introduces $50,000 Prize for Gold Medal Winners at Paris Olympics

Athletics will become the first sporting category to introduce prize money at the Olympics in Paris this summer with World Athletics, the international athletics federation, saying it will pay Olympic gold medal winners $50,000 at the Games. The athletics governing...

Stefanos Tsitsipas Wins Mallorca Championships

Stefanos Tsitsipas, the Greek tennis star, took home the trophy at the Mallorca Championships on Saturday after defeating Roberto Bautista Agut. Saturday's win provided the 23-year-old Greek player with a grass-court title just before Wimbledon starts on Monday. Tsitsipas defeated Spanish...

Beach Volleyball Tournament to be Held in Syntagma Square

The Hellenic Volleyball Federation will be hosting a beach volleyball tournament in the center of Athens on June 2nd, as the city's central square, Syntagma, will be transformed into a beach for the event. The Athens Golden Cup tournament, which...

Greek-American Follows Basketball — and his Heart — to Mykonos

At 26, Greek-American Tommy Papas is "living a dream," playing professional basketball for the idyllic island of Mykonos. Papas, a native of Plainfield, New Jersey, told Greek Reporter his Hellenic basketball odyssey began in 2018, when he signed on with...

Greece’s Stefanidi Wins Bronze at World Athletics Championship

Katerina Stefanidi won bronze in the women’s pole vault at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha on Sunday, with a season-best clearance of 4.85 metres. The former world champion and Olympic gold medalist could do no better than landing...