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 [...]
Cypriot Pavlos Kontides, competing in the sailing discipline in the laser category, made a remarkable start at the Beijing Olympic Games on Tuesday.
Kontides completed the second day in fifth position, eight points away from the athlete in first place, six points from second and only two from the competitors in positions three and four. Kontides finished [...]
One of Greece’s best hopes for a gold medal, judoka Ilias Iliadis was dumped out of the Olympic Games yesterday after losing his match against Dutchman Mark Huizinga in the 90kg category.
Ilias Iliadis, who was Greece’s flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony in Beijing on Friday, was unable to reproduce the form that saw him [...]
If the Olympic Games are a history of mankind, wrestling is the prologue. When the ancient Games of the Olympiad were born, wrestling already was an ancient game.
Widely recognised as the world’s oldest competitive sport, wrestling appeared in a series of Egyptian wall paintings as many as 5000 years ago. When the Games began in [...]
More bad news for Greek sports as the country’s Boxing Federation announced yesterday that one of its athletes who is already in Beijing preparing for the Olympic Games has tested positive for a banned substance.
The Federation issued a statement saying it had been notified yesterday – by the Greek anti-doping agency ESKAN – that the [...]
National basketball team on Olympic trail > The national basketball team is gathering this morning ahead of the pre-Olympic tournament to take place in Athens on July 14-20. National coach Panayiotis Yiannakis may not have Michalis Kakiouzis, Lazaros Papadopoulos, Nikos Hatzivrettas and Dimos Dikoudis at his disposal, but he will be able to enjoy the [...]
The 11 Greek weightlifters who had tested positive for a banned substance in March received two-year suspensions yesterday, but this has opened the way for Greece to take part in the Beijing Olympics with a total of four weightlifters.
During its meeting in Cali, Colombia, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) imposed the usual two-year bans on [...]
