Panathinaikos has advanced to the finals of the Basket League after thrashing AEK 105-67 away on Monday to clinch the best-of-five semifinal series 3-1.
TRACK & FIELD
The 2017 National Mountain Running Championship of Greek track and field federation SEGAS will take place this year at Kritsa in eastern Crete on June 4.
Olympiakos appears to have stopped negotiations with French manager Remi Garde and is turning to other options for its bench.
SOCCER: The pair of the Cup final will meet again on Sunday as the first round of games for the Super league play-offs pits PAOK with AEK in Thessaloniki. Panionios will host Panathinaikos, according to the draw conducted on Monday.
The cautious have likened it to an attempt to send a manned mission to Mars. However, Yannis Pitsiladis, professor of sport and exercise science at the University of Brighton in the UK, is aiming to achieve it by 2019.
Veteran marathon runner Maria Polyzou, Greece’s record holder, will attempt to run three entire marathons around Greece on three consecutive Sundays to promote the cause of bone marrow bank Orama Elpidas.
When Barney Spender ran the Athens Marathon in 2002, he probably did not envisage that running in Greece and tracing the legendary steps of ancient messenger Pheidippides would take up more than two years of his life in the future.
There will be traffic restrictions in effect on the roads around Lycabettus Hill in central Athens on Sunday morning due to a fun run.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is seen at Maximos Mansion in Athens Tuesday with athletes who represented Greece at the 34th European Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, including pole vaulters Katerina Stefanidi and Constantinos Filippidis and triple-jumper Voula Papachristou. Stefanidi took gold after jumping 4.85 meters, Filippidis beat his own national record to win silver with a jump of 5.85 m while Papachristou landed bronze after clearing 14.47 m. Tsipras congratulated the medalists and said more must be done to support young athletes in Greece. [Tatiana Bolari/Eurokinissi]
Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi won gold at the European Indoor Championship in Belgrade at the women’s pole-vault final on Saturday, while triple-jump champion Voula Papachristou landed bronze.
Greek pole-vault champion Kostas Filippidis improved his own national record to win silver at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade on Friday.
The privatization of railway service operator Trainose runs a fresh risk of being derailed, and it will be the state that is to blame.
The photograph of him crossing the finish line of the Athens Authentic Marathon on November 13 is still making the rounds on the web.
European Athletics, track and field’s supreme authority in Europe, has included the Athens Street Pole Vault meeting, that takes place the Greek capital every summer, in the list of the Special Premium events for next year.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed on Thursday that Greek triple jumper Pigi Devetzi is being stripped of the bronze medal she won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Kenya's Luka Rotich Lobuwan won the 34th Athens marathon on Sunday in two hours, 12 minutes and 49 seconds for the grueling 42-kilometer course.
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