Cyprus skeet shooter Andri Eleftheriou won the gold medal in the World Cup finals held in Minsk, Belarus, on the weekend.
She became the first Cypriot ever to win gold at such high level in the sport. Eleftheriou had finished seventh in last month’s Olympic Games in Beijing.
What Panathinaikos fans have eagerly anticipated for many years has finally begun, as work on the soccer club’s new ground began yesterday in the Athens district of Votanikos.
Early in the morning, bulldozers started leveling the site that will host the land development for Panathinaikos’s sports complex on Aghiou Polykarpou Street, western Athens. According to construction [...]
The new sports center will cost up to 20 million euros and is due to be ready by next June.
The AEK soccer team players will be training at a brand new complex by next summer, it was revealed yesterday, as the club said that it had secured a site east of Athens. AEK has [...]
A total of eighty women from Cyprus have shown interest to participate in Commonwealth Women’s Antarctic Expedition, which will be held in December 2009.
In particular, eight women from an equal number of Commonwealth member states, including Cyprus, will be travelling to the South Pole where they have to cooperate with each other in order to [...]
Cyprus Olympic medal hope Marcos Baghdatis has pulled out of this month’s Olympic Games in Beijing because of a wrist injury, the Cyprus Tennis Federation said on Thursday.
“Unfortunately the news about Marcos is not good. He won’t just miss the Olympic Games but also the US Open,” federation coach Yiannos Hadjigeorgiou said in a statement. [...]
The rugged mountains of Northern Greece are a paradise for paragliders
High above the vast plain where Roman statesman Brutus was defeated by Marc Antony more than 2,000 years ago, Mariyan Ivanov prepares to soar like an eagle. “Up there”, Ivanov says with a flick of his head skyward, “there are no speed limits or stop [...]
Space Hellas, the Greek telecommunications services company founded in 1985, won a contract from the General Secretary of Athletics to develop an electronic ticketing system for 22 sports stadiums in Greece.
Space Hellas will issue tickets to athletic and other events in a deal valued at 13.1 million euros ($21 million), the company said yesterday [...]
