We asked our reporters to write about the most memorable sports moments of 2021 – not the grandest or most historic events, just the moments they think of first when they look back on the year.
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A 28-year-old member of Greece’s national chess team has walked away with the bronze in the women’s blitz category at the European Blitz and Rapid Chess Championship in Katowice, Poland.
Greece’s anti-doping authority has been removed from the compliance watchlist of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Former Netherlands international John van’t Schip resigned as Greece coach Friday after failing to qualify for next year’s World Cup in Qatar.
Tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas underwent elbow surgery on Thursday and is to begin his 2022 preparations in Dubai next month.
Almost 60 fans of a women’s volleyball team were led before a prosecutor after police found them in possession of weapons ranging from firebombs to axes, shovels and screwdrivers, police said on Thursday.
The Athens Urban Rail Transport Company (STASY) has requested additional security measures in the wake of Sunday’s extensive vandalism of trains belonging to the Kifissia-Piraeus ISAP electric rail service.
“Running whets your appetite for life,” amateur runner Stelios Prassas tells Kathimerini. At the age of 90, Prassas became the oldest person to run the 42.195 km Athens Marathon on November 14, finishing in 8 hours.
They supported each other in the superhuman effort they undertook and came out victorious. Vasso Konstantinopoulou, 25, and Sonia Tsekini, 45, came third and fourth place respectively in the Panhellenic Marathon Championship in Athens last Sunday.
Runners and volunteers waited two years for the return of the New York City Marathon, after it was canceled in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Costas Gelaouzos became the fastest Greek over the classic Marathon course on Sunday, winning the 38th Athens Marathon in 2 hours, 16 minutes and 49 seconds.
A 35-year-old tennis coach has been arrested in an area of the northern suburbs of Athens on charges of repeatedly sexually abusing underage female athletes a few years ago.
The day that the massive wildfire started in Varybobi, north of Athens, in early August, Marios Giannakou was on an expedition to the Arctic Circle, exploring Norway’s fjords in a sailing boat.
Greek Olympic champion Lefteris Petrounias sought to clarify on Thursday that he fully supports anyone who has suffered any form of abuse in the field of sports after causing a storm of protest on social media with his statements regarding allegations of the maltreatment of athletes.
Four golden olive branch wreaths that will crown the winners of Monday’s 125th Boston Marathon, were presented by the Consul General of Greece, Stratos Efthymiou, to the Boston Athletic Association during the opening ceremony of the Boston Marathon.
The health certificates that citizens need to join gyms and use swimming pools can now be issued electronically following a medical check-up, the government announced on Thursday.
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