Panathinaiko [Panathinaic or Kallimarmaro] Stadium has a majestic feel.
If you want a mix of sport and culture, it’s hard to go past the Athens’ Panathinaiko Stadium. Cast in the middle of central Athens, right beside a road busier than rush hour on a busy motorway, it somehow retains a majestic feel.
Built from marble hauled from [...]
Pankration has its roots in the world’s first Martial Art that was introduced to the East by the Greek Macedonian King, Alexander the Great.
Whoever believes that martial arts were born and raised in the Far East is, it seems, mistaken. As in almost every aspect of history, the Greeks got there first, this time proudly [...]
Former Olympic Champion hurdler Fani Halkia, along with her coach and two more athletes, were charged with criminal doping offenses yesterday over failed drugs tests in the runup to the Beijing Games.
Halkia, 400-meter runner Dimitris Regas, 200-meter sprinter Tassos Gousis and Halkia’s coach Giorgos Panayiotopoulos face up to five years in prison after the athletes [...]
Che Jon Fernandes finished third in the shot put F53/54 with 8.29 meters to win a bronze medal for Greece at the Paralympics.
Che Jon Fernandes and Alexandra Dimoglou gave Greece two more bronze medals yesterday, taking the country’s tally to 24, its best ever performance in any Paralympic Games.
Fernandes finished third in shot put [...]
Paschalis Stathelakos won a Paralympic gold in the shot put F40 > Greece garnered a slew of medals at the Paralympic Games yesterday, adding another eight to its collection.
Paschalis Stathelakos won the country’s fourth gold medal in Beijing in the shot put F40 event, registering a new world record in the process. His best effort [...]
Karayianni, Taiganidis, Dimoglou take Greece’s Paralympic tally to 11 > Anthi Karayianni won silver with her jump of 5.63 meters.
Friday was a silver day for Greece in Beijing as three Paralympic athletes finished second in their disciplines.
Star swimmer Charalambos Taiganidis won his fourth medal in these Paralympics yesterday as he finished second in the [...]
Swimmer Haralambos Taiganidis celebrated winning his gold medal and breaking the world record in Beijing.
Haralambos Taiganidis provided Greece with its first gold medal in the Paralympic Games in Beijing as he clocked a world record in the final of the 100-meter freestyle S13 on Wednesday. He swam it in 53.37 seconds, beating his own [...]
