The Greek Olympic team, as is customary, led the parade along the Seine River in the Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday.
OLYMPICS
Nkos Efstathiou, an Athens-based journalist and author of a best-selling biography on Olympic Champion Pyrros Dimas, joins me to look at the buzz around the Olympics in Greece this summer, and break down whether Greek sport – which took a hit during the crisis – is bouncing back.
Thomas Bach, left, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), left, and his wife Claudia Bach, right, Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his wife Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotaki before a gala dinner hosted by the IOC and the French Presidency at the Louvre Museum, at the Paris Olympic games, Thursday, in Paris.
The Olympic Games aim to bring nations together to compete in the spirit of friendship, but sometimes countries get banned from this show of goodwill. The 2024 Paris Olympics features a notable case, with Russia having faced an IOC ban since 2022, when Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Brother and sister duo Odysseas Spanakis (front) and Ariadne Spanaki of Greece are shown during dinghy training at the Marseille Marina in the southern French port city, on Thursday
They compete under the same flag but speak different languages and come from different parts of the world. After fleeing war and persecution at home, 37 athletes from 11 countries will compete in the Paris Games as part of the Refugee Olympic Team.
Panagiotis Gionis, a 44-year-old dentist and table tennis player, will compete in the Olympics for the sixth time in Paris.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis plans to attend the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics, Kathimerini has learned. This will mark the first time a Greek prime minister attends the Games’ opening ceremony since the Athens 2004 event.
A track and field athlete from Greece’s Olympic team for the Paris Games has tested positive for doping.
Greek basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo will be, along with race walker Antigoni Drisbioti, the flag-bearer for Greece at the Paris Olympic Games.
Greek basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo and race walker Antigoni Ntrismpioti have been chosen as the flag bearers for Greece in the Paris Olympic Games.
Long jump Olympic gold medalist Miltos Tentoglou won the first place at the “Istvan Gyulai” meeting in Hungary on Tuesday with a jump of 8.23m.
Greece triumphed 80-69 at the Peace and Friendship Stadium, sparking great celebrations by the 12,000 fans attending.
An impressive Greece dismissed the challenge of Slovenia on Saturday in the semifinal of the Olympic Qualification Tournament.
Greece and Slovenia go head to head on Saturday at the Peace and Friendship Stadium (SEF) in Piraeus in one of eight semifinal games of the Olympic qualifying competitions to determine the final four men’s basketball berths for the Paris Games.
Luka Doncic and Giannis Antetokounmpo have faced off nine times in their NBA careers, and those games have never disappointed.
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