In an exclusive interview with Kathimerini, Monahan talked about the extreme water temperatures, her favorite moment of the journey, but also the giant jellyfish that left her hand paralyzed for a swim in Alexandria, Egypt.
SWIMMING
Greece’s performance in the 2018 European Aquatics Championships in Glasgow ended on a high note on Thursday, with swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev taking silver in the 50 m freestyle.
Andreas Vazaios added a second silver medal to his tally at the European Short Course Championship in Copenhagen on Sunday, finishing second at the 200-meter butterfly final.
Greek swimming champion Andreas Vazaios won silver at the European Short Course Championship on Friday, finishing second at the men’s 200-meter medley final.
Greece’s Under-20 basketball national team advanced to the semifinals of the European Championship of its category, held on Crete.
The Greek women's team finished fourth in the 2017 Eurobasket in the Czech Republic as it lost to France 77-55 in Saturday’s semifinal and 78-45 to Belgium in the third-place game on Sunday.
AEK beat Panathinaikos 71-70 on Sunday to level their Basket League best-of-five semifinal series 1-1.
Participants in the "Swim the Canal" event take part in the race through the 6,346-meter-long Corinth Canal that separates the Peloponnese from mainland Greece, Tuesday. It was the first swimming race since the construction of the canal in 1893. The swimmers covered a distance of 6 kilometers. [Valerie Gache/AFP]
Silver medalist Spyros Gianniotis of Greece poses after the men’s 10 km marathon swim at Copacabana Tuesday during the Rio Olympics. Ferry Weertman of the Netherlands took the gold in a photo finish. Gianniotis, 36, appeared to cross the finish line first, but the Dutchman touched the timing pad before him. Both were credited with the same time, 1 hour, 52 minutes, 59.8 seconds. An appeal against the decision by the Greek national team, asking that the pair share top honors, was rejected by Olympics officials. [Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP]
Last year Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini had to swim for her life when the boat she was traveling in while trying to reach Europe broke down; this month the teenager will be swimming in the Rio Olympics.
Swimmers on the Olympic refugee team Rami Anis (r) and Yusra Mardini talk after practice at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium ahead of the Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday. Both athletes made the treacherous journey across the Aegean Sea to Greece on rubber boats to flee war-torn Syria. [Charlie Riedel/AP]
Butterfly champion Kristel Vourna, who was told she had qualified to next month’s Olympics before she was denied participation, is now told she will go to the Rio Games after all.
Greek swimmer Kristel Vourna was told by the sport’s world governing body FINA that she had made the list for the Rio 2016 Olympics, only to find out to her huge disappointment she had been left out after all: her original inclusion had been due to an administrative error, FINA admitted.
Greece's Anna Ntountounaki starts in the women's 100m butterfly preliminary event, at the European Swimming Championships at the London Aquatics Centre in London, Thursday. [Stefan Wermuth/Reuters]
Andreas Vazaios became on Wednesday only the third Greek swimmer ever to win gold in a European Championship.
Apostolos Christou earned Greece’s first medal in the European Aquatics Championships in London finishing third in the 100 meters backstroke final on Tuesday.
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