Almost two in 10 young people who take part in sports would use banned substances if it helped their physique, according to a survey conducted by a new nongovernmental organization, Neoi.
Neoi questioned 700 people aged between 13 and 28 and found that 3 percent of them admitted to taking banned substances, which included ecstasy, cocaine, [...]
The 26th Athens Classic Marathon starts tomorrow at 9a.m. with a record number of over 10,000 participants, who will cover the distance of 42,195 meters from the Marathon Tomb to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens.
Stavros Douvis, general secretary for sports, told a press conference yesterday that foreign runners, who account for more than half of [...]
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 [...]
Greek athletes Lefteris Cosmidis and Vassilis Tsolakidis won bronze medals in the weekend’s gymnastics grand prix in Glasgow.
Scott Jurek, the favorite, won the 246-kilometer ultramarathon from Athens to Sparta on Saturday.
The American finished first for the third year in a row on Saturday morning, with a personal best of 22 hours, 20 minutes and 01 seconds. This is also the fifth-best record of all time.
Finishing second was Austrian Markus Thalmann, over [...]
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 [...]
