AEK is now the clear favorite to win a second title in a row as it leads the Super League table by four points after beating crosstown rival Panathinaikos on Wednesday.
Greek tennis champion Stefanos Tsitsipas suffered a first-round knockout from the Madrid Open on Saturday, losing to Thiago Monteiro.
The Paris 2024 Olympic flame sailed for France on Saturday on board a three-masted ship to mark the final sprint of preparations ahead of the Olympic Games opening ceremony on July 26.
Both Panathinaikos and Olympiakos are now on a 1-1 score in their Euroleague playoff series.
The Paris Olympics flame has been formally handed to French organizers in the all-marble stadium in Athens where the first modern Games were held in Athens in 1896.
Olympiakos has taken the lead in its Euroleague playoff battle with Barcelona scoring a road win on Wednesday in Game 1.
The case file put together by the police Sub-Division for the Prevention of Sports Violence against the participants in the incidents that led to the death of 31-year-old policeman Giorgos Lyngeridis outside a volleyball stadium in Athens last December has shed light on the way the Olympiakos club hooligans orchestrated the attack, the internal hierarchy of Gate 7 organized fans and their relationship with the management of the team.
A prosecutor has charged 67 Olympiakos club hooligans, arrested on Monday for their involvement in the fatal injury of the riot policeman Giorgos Lygeridis, with 28 charges, including 12 felonies.
Sixty-seven Olympiakos club hooligans arrested for their involvement in the fatal injury of the riot policeman Giorgos Lygeridis and in at least 14 more cases appeared before a prosecutor on Tuesday.
The Belem made its first voyage in 1896, just a few weeks after the first modern Olympic Games had finished in Athens.
Olympiakos has returned to the throne of Greek volleyball, completing the domestic double on Monday with its playoff final victory over archrival Panathinaikos.
Olympiakos has become the first Greek club to win any European trophy, as it won UEFA’s Youth League on Monday beating AC Milan in the final.
Casper Ruud took his revenge against Stefanos Tsitsipas by winning the Barcelona Open final in straight sets on Sunday for his biggest career title, a week after losing to the Greek in the Monte Carlo Masters final.
Olympiakos beat PAOK that has dropped to third in the Super League, while AEK and Panathinaikos scored road wins.
Athens Mayor Haris Doukas said on Friday that the new Panathinaikos stadium in the Votanikos district of Athens is on track and that the goal is to have it delivered by 2026.
Fans gathered outside Athens International Airport on Friday morning to greet Olympiakos soccer players after their team beat Turkish club Fenerbahce 3-2 in a penalty shootout in Istanbul on Thursday night, securing qualification to the Conference League semifinals, where they will meet England’s Aston Villa.
Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas won to advance to the Barcelona Open semifinals on Friday, keeping them on course to meet in a second straight final.
The flame that will burn at the Olympics is spending the night at the ancient Acropolis in Athens, a week before its handover to Paris 2024 organizers.
The new Panathinaikos stadium in Votanikos and the redevelopment project at the team’s old stadium on Alexandras Avenue will be ready by 2026, Athens Mayor Haris Doukas has said.
Olympiakos is in the semifinals of the Europa Conference League, and will face Aston Villa for a spot in the final.
The European soccer governing body, UEFA, has appointed an ethics and disciplinary inspector to look into complaints issued by Thessaloniki club PAOK over the treatment of its fans and members of its team by the Belgian police in the game against Club Brugge for the Conference League competition last week.
The Hellenic Soccer Federation (EPO) has quashed rumors of a positive doping test from a Greek national team soccer player, stating it contacted UEFA, which refuted the speculations.
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