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Greek athletes to have own A/Cs at Paris Games

Greece’s Olympic delegation will have its own portable air conditioners at the 33rd Games in Paris after the hosts’ decision not to install ACs in the athletes’ rooms for environmental reasons.

Brainstorming on OAKA’s future

The Olympic Athletic Center of Athens (OAKA), which houses Greece’s largest soccer pitch and other sports venues, has been placed under the microscope of graduate students from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in the United States.

19.08.2021 / 21:00

‘The Olympics were my vindication’

If Stefanos Ntouskos lived in the United Kingdom, the bureaucratic process to give him a knighthood would have begun on the morning of July 30. In Greece, he now has the title of the first Greek Olympic gold medalist in rowing.

08.08.2021 / 14:31

Greece earns water polo silver after 13-10 loss to Serbia

Greece’s men’s water polo team won the silver medal on the last day of the Tokyo Olympics, after its 13-10 defeat, the first in these Games, at the hands of Serbia.

11.06.2021 / 22:50

Greeks in New York celebrate 1821 Revolution bicentennial

Greeks in New York marked the 200th anniversary of the Greek uprising against Ottoman rule in a novel way last weekend.

26.05.2021 / 20:28

New York’s Greek community celebrates 1821 bicentenary with Sail to Freedom

The Greek community of New York will celebrate the bicentenary of the Greek War of Independence on June 6 with Sail to Freedom.

29.03.2021 / 21:31

Panathenaic Stadium showcased with new lighting design

A new lighting system was unveiled at the Panathenaic Stadium, also known as the Kallimarmaro, in a ceremony Monday evening.

14.03.2021 / 11:13

Tsoulfa qualifies for Olympics 17 years after sailing gold

17 years after winning Olympic Gold at the Athens Olympics, with her partner Sofia Bekatorou, Emilia Tsoulfa, now 47 and a mother of three, has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, in the same sailing class, the 470 double-handed dinghy.

17.01.2021 / 14:07

Resignations at sailing federation after Olympic champion’s sexual assault allegations

Two members of the board of Greece's sailing federation have resigned since athlete Sofia Bekatorou, an Olympic Gold medalist, revealed she had been sexually assaulted by a board member in 1998.

15.01.2021 / 16:56

Sailing champion first Greek elite athlete to die of Covid

Greek Olympian and a former world sailing champion Leonidas Pelekanakis passed away on Thursday at the age of 58, after a two-month battle with Covid-19.

14.01.2021 / 09:07

Olympic sailing champion Leonidas Pelekanakis dies of Covid-19

Greek Olympic sailing champion Leonidas Pelekanakis died of Covid-19 on Thursday, aged 58, after an almost two-month battle with the illness.

14.07.2020 / 17:29

Nonagenarian Greek sailor nominated for Guinness World Records

A 91-year-old Greek mariner is running for a place in the Guinness World Records as the oldest amateur competition sailor, after his team submitted his nomination for the renowned reference book.

13.05.2018 / 14:46

‘Couldn’t have gone better,’ Greece’s gold sharpshooter tells Kathimerini

A few hours after Greece’s Olympic shooting champion Anna Korakaki won the gold medal in the 10-meter air pistol competition at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Rifle/Pistol 2018, held in Fort Benning, in the United States, she spoke to Kathimerini about her achievement and in setting a world record.

22.03.2018 / 13:27

Greece’s first international dance mission crowned in gold

Greece’s first mission to an international dance competition saw the country walk away with two gold medals, two silvers and a best choreographer award.

06.03.2017 / 09:27

A journey from wanderlust to stellar athletic achievement

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step,” the 6th century Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu is often quoted as saying.