Not wanting to scrap its increasingly popular early summer Fun Run, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) is taking it online.
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The City of Athens is reopening all sports centers to the public, beginning on Wednesday, the Organization of Culture, Sports and Youth (OPANDA) announced on Tuesday.
Greece’s Association of Diving Centers issued a statement on Friday calling for clarity as to when the country’s clubs will be allowed to reopen amid the continued easing of restrictions.
Collectible match-worn signed shoes belonging to Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo and a signed T-shirt from his personal collection with Nike are being auctioned for charity as part of the Live Athletically campaign to raise money to combat the coronavirus.
A woman exercises in a spring scenery near the Byzantine and Ottoman-era fortress Yedi Kule, in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece, on 20 April 2020, during a lockdown order by the Greek government to protect from the coronavirus. [Dimitris Tosidis/EPA]
As part of continuing efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Greece’s Shipping Ministry on Thursday imposed a ban on swimming in the sea, speargun fishing and watersports.
A former NCAA champion in javelin was given a four-year doping ban in a ruling published Tuesday. Ioannis Kyriazis of Greece, who also placed sixth at the 2017 world championships, tested positive for the steroid-like muscle builder Ligandrol, track and field's Athletics Integrity Unit said.
Due to popular demand, the first edition of the Posidonia 3on3 Basketball Tournament will take place on Saturday, May 30, at the Eurohoops Dome indoors facility in Kifissia, northern Athens.
The Olympic torch handover ceremony in Greece on March 19 will be held without children due to the novel coronavirus, as will the arrival ceremony in Japan on March 20, Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee president Yoshiro Mori said on Friday.
Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos (right) welcomes mountaineer Christina Flampouri at his office in Athens on Monday, where he presented her with a medal for her achievements. Flampouri is the first Greek woman to conquer the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on the world’s seven continents. She completed the feat in January, after climbing Antarctica’s Mount Vinson. [Panagiotis Tzamaros/InTime News]
The increasingly popular Posidonia Games’ sporting calendar will this year feature the 1st Posidonia Squash Tournament, bringing the number of sports events the thousands of participants can chose from to five.
Greek Olympic and world champion Anna Korakaki will run the first part of the relay following the torch-lighting ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and will also be the first woman to hold that honor. The 23-year-old shooter will receive the Olympic flame from the High Priestess in a ceremony to be held on March 12 at Ancient Olympia. [Reuters]
Greece's prime minister will meet the head of UEFA, government officials said on Tuesday, in a bid to undertake a complete overhaul of Greek soccer which has been mired in corruption and violence for decades.
Minister of State Giorgos Gerapetritis met with UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin in Switzerland, as part of the government's efforts to restart professional Greek soccer on a new footing.
Ruling New Democracy has struck lawmaker and popular soccer veteran Theodoros Zagorakis from its European Parliament group over comments criticizing a recommendation by the Professional Sports Commission to relegate clubs PAOK and Xanthi.
Greek Olympic medalist at the 1980 Moscow Olympics Tasos Boudouris was in stable but critical condition on Tuesday after a motorcycle accident.
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