When you hear about workout, you probably think of a gym, a group class or a stadium. Have you ever thought that you might be forgetting the simplest choice of all? OUTDOOR WORKOUT!

This was the innovative idea of the MCH Training people when they started working on the ELA KI ESU (Come with us) project that takes place every Sunday in Athens. The project ELA KI ESU aims to offer free, outdoor workout accessible to everyone, in order to give people a chance not only to exercise and take care of their body and health, but also to share their feelings, passions and to have fun.

MCH Training in an online, Greek company, whose activity revolves around fitness, nutrition and health. The mission of the company is to make fitness, healthy nutrition and well-being a priority for everybody, without concentrating only on the fittest or the youngest.

Every Sunday, MCH Training makes a special appointment with you at a different place each time, so that you can exercise next to the experts and learn all the secrets of fitness close to nature.

You are only expected to bring with you your best mood and enthusiasm.

For more information visit MCH Training’s official website at http://mch-training.com/

The Minister of National Defense, Panos Panagiotopoulos attended the event and pointed out the need to “rally as Nation and as Greek community around the traditional values that have kept Hellenism upright during its most difficult moments of its history.” He praised the crucial contribution of the family and particularly of the mother to the athlete’s objectives achievement.

The Association Kallipatira awarded the mothers of the following Olympic Champions: Alexandros Nikolaidis, Vasileios Polymeros, Sophia Mpekatorou, Pigi Devetzi, Ilias Iliadis, Christina Giazitzidou, Alexandra Tsiavou, Dimitrios Mougios, Sofia Papadopoulou and Virginia Kravarioti.

Panagiotopoulos awarded Kallipatira’s President and Greek ambassador for sport, tolerance and fair play to the Council of Europe Aikaterini Nafplioti-Panagopoulos, with the Ministry of National Defense’s escutcheon.

Minister of Macedonia-Thrace Theodore Karaoglou, MP Thessaloniki A of New Democracy Georgios Orfanos, Metropolitan of Thessaloniki Mr. Anthimos, General Secretary of Sports Kyriaki Giannakidou, regional governor of Central Macedonia Apostle Tzitzikostas, Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff Lieutenant General Athanasios Tselios, Commander of the Third Army Corps / NRDC-GR, Lieutenant Nicholas Devetzis, as well as representatives of the local government attended the event.

AEK, which has always been Greece’s third largest club, apart from being delegated from the top league this season, also announced that it won’t be playing in the second division as the team needs more time to repair its financial situation.

As bostonerald reports, the club hit by Greece’s financial crisis and by debts, held an emergency shareholders meeting on May 14 and appointed its new board members, who will meet on June 7 to formally launch liquidation procedures. That means that from the new season, the club will be in the 3rd division and probably under the control of Dimitris Melissanidis.

Olympiakos won the 16-team championship with 77 points from 30 matches, while AEK ended second-to-last with 30 points.

About 3,000 followers of the team set an improvised party at the airport, in which Olympiakos’ players participated as well, calling slogans and recording every moment with cameras and cell phones.

“The President is crazy” was the dominant slogan when George and Panayiotis Angelopoulos raised the trophy, while on top of the bus, where the all-star shooting guard Vassilis Spanoulis appeared first.

The party continued at the Peace and Friendship Stadium, the team’s home base, later. Coach Giorgos Bartzokas became the first Greek to lead a team to the title. It was the third  straight year for a Greek title, with Panathinaikos winning in 2011.

Olympiakos beat Real Madrid (100 -88) in London to win their 3rd Euroleague Championship; their second in a row.

Down 27-10 after the first period to Real Madrid, defending Turkish Airlines Euroleague basketball champion Olympiakos roared back with a scintillating performance to repeat as champions with a 100-88 victory, led by all-star shooting guard Vassilis Spanoulis.

Vassilis Spanoulis of Olympiacos Piraeus was named 2012-13 bwin Euroleague MVP at the EFES Euroleague Awards Ceremony held at the City Hall in London, England on Thursday. Acie law of Olympiacos was named MVP of the final.

Watch Vassilis Spanoulis’ crucial three pointer at the final:

Olympiacos and Real Madrid qualified for the the final after both teams recorded victories at London’s 02 Arena on Friday.

Olympiacos basketball club, founded in 1931, is one of the most successful in Greece and a traditional powerhouse of the Euroleague.

They have won ten Greek League titles, nine Greek Cups, three Euroleague championships and one Triple Crown. They play their home matches at Peace and Friendship Stadium.

Olympiacos were also European Champions for the second time last year at the Euroleague 2011–12 Final Four in Istanbul.

Watch an interview with the final’s MVP, Acie Law

Olympiakos completed its sixth double in the last decade winning a record 26th Greek Cup when it beat Asteras Tripolis 3-1 in the final on Saturday.

Watch Olympiacos’ players receiving the cup:

The game was attended by almost 40.000 spectators at the Olympic Stadium of Athens.
The referee came under fire for not giving a penalty after Olympiakos’ defender Yannis Maniatis used his hand to stop the ball on the goal-line and while the score was 1-1.

At the 117th minute, Asteras players appealed again for a second penalty.

At the 120th minute players and team officials were caught up in a fight that resulted in red cards for Asteras’ Perrone and to Olympiakos’s Francois Modesto.

Watch the fight below:

Deputy Culture Minister Yiannis Ioannidis attended the great event, while he announced that the main hall of the Alexandrio Sports Palace of Thessaloniki has been named the Nick Galis Hall, with the decision to retire Galis’ iconic number 6.

Thousands of fans mostly from Aris, along with many former team-mates, coaches and opponents attended the ceremony creating a touching atmosphere for the testimonial to Galis, which also included a friendly game between the current Aris team and Limoges from France.

55- year-old Galis stated: “When I came out and felt the love (of the fans), I could not resist. All the moments were great, hanging my jersey, the new name of the hall. It was one night that I will never forget as long as I live…The only times I have felt like this was at the birth of my daughter and today; I want to thank everyone for this.”

Galis is considered by many to be the greatest individual athlete that Greece has ever had. He has been a real inspiration for millions of Greeks to take up the sport and shoot hoops. Former Barcelona player Audie Norris was quoted, “I’ll never forget his name, as long as I live, because my son’s name is Nikos as well. It is true. He was named Nikos, because of Nick Galis. I had that much respect for the man, as a person and as a player.”

Galis remains Euroleague’s and Greek Championship’s all-time leader in career points scored and points per game. Furthermore, he holds the FIBA World Championship scoring records for the highest career points per game average.

Euroleague deprecated the team’s fans’ attitude, “All visiting teams must assume that, whenever they come to Athens, they are very likely to face unsportsmanlike conduct by some home spectators as well as disturbance of all sorts and nature.” At the competitions official website we also read: “Euroleague Basketball’s independent disciplinary judge made specific emphasis on the list of violations recurring at Panathinaikos home games during the last two seasons and on the potential physical danger to fans, players and game officials due to the ongoing violations.”

This is the second fine for Panathinaikos this month, as the team was recently fined 150,000 euros after the first game of the series, when the team’s president, Dimitris Giannakopoulos, accused officials of exercising influence on the final score, of 72-70, where Panathinaikos was defeated by Barcelona.

As the Guardian reports, the six-times Euroleague champion Panathinaikos was also fined 9,000 euros earlier this month for incidents caused by its fans during a regular-season home game against CSKA Moscow.

According to sources, Donis has sent an extrajudicial to PAOK’s president, Zisis Vryzas and to the major shareholder, Ivan Savvidis, a fact that undermined his reliability and the relationship of trust between Donis and the club.

As a result, the club announced Donis’ sacking, “due to an important reason for which he is to blame,” because they think that the extrajudicial defamed PAOK FC, the team’s owner and president.

The technical leadership of PAOK for the six games of the Super league playoffs will be undertaken by Giorgos Georgiadis, the former Greece under-21 manager. PAOK states in the announcement: “We apologize to those who traveled to Tripoli and to those who dreamed about PAOK’s participation in the Cup’s finals.”

Donis joined the club at the start of the season after leaving Atromitos, finishing second in the 16-team league behind champion Olympiakos.

Donis and PAOK reportedly might end up in court to resolve the issue of the severance pay the manager is entitled to according to his contract, as reported in the newspaper Kathimerini.

AEK, which dropped from the top flight last week, was penalized three points from this season and fined 4,000 euros ($5,200) after a April 14 match at home to Panthrakikos was abandoned when home fans chased both sets of players off the pitch.

Panthrakikos were awarded a 3-0 win for the match, which was stopped after AEK had conceded an 87th-minute goal to go 1-0 behind against their fellow strugglers. AEK, which will start next season in the second division with a further two points deducted, had been fighting to at least get the chance to play the final three minutes of the abandoned match.

“The EPO court of appeal has accepted the punishment administered by the Super League and rejects outright AEK’s appeal,” the federation said in a statement. AEK is the second team to receive such a penalty, following Panathinaikos, which received the same five-point deduction after last season’s game with Olympiakos Piraeus at the Olympic Stadium was abandoned.