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Greece heard its national anthem playing for the third time at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games as Katerina Stefanidi won gold in the Women's Pole Vault Event. Stefanidi won an emotional victory over USA's Sandi Morris when Morris' elbow hit...

Greece is the birthplace of the Olympics and ever since the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, Greece has participated in all of the summer games up to this summer's Rio 2016. Let's take a look at some fun...

How did a young man born into a poor peasant family who helped his father make a living as a water carrier plot to catch the attention of the prettiest girl in Marousi? Easy. Win an Olympic marathon. The summer...

All three teams representing Greece completed victoriously the first leg of the Europa League playoffs for the group stage, thereby keeping Greece in 15th place of international football. The current ranking means that for the 2018-2019 season, Greece will be...

Greek Panagiotis Mantis and Pavlos Kagialis gave Greece its fifth medal by winning Bronze at the Rio Olympics for the 470 Dinghy Sailing race on Thursday. The medal race, initially to have taken place on Wednesday, was postponed for...

Crowds gathered to welcome Silver Medalist Spiros Gianniotis at Athens airport on Thursday, where he received a hero's welcome on Thursday. Two days after his success in Rio, he arrived at around 11:40 (local time) to a packed arrival's...

Olympic champion Eleftherios Petrounias inspired applause in the stadium once again after performing at the Gymnastics Gala, the demonstration program of gymnastics athletes the day after the completion of the sport competition. The 'Lord of the Rings' -- as sports...

Deputy Sports Minister Stavros Kontonis announced on Thursday the suspension of the start of all 2016-2017 football championships after a rift with the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO). He suspended games until September 5 on he grounds of safety. The decision had...

The 470 Dinghy Sailing race has been postponed for the second time in three days. Greek crew members Panagiotis Mantis and Pavlos Kagialis will need to wait for the right wind to blow so that the men's medal race...

Panagiotis Mantis and Pavlos Kagialis secured a position on the podium for the 470 Dinghy Sailing medal race which will be held at 8:05 pm Greece time on Wednesday. The Greek crew finished in second place in the 10th race...

Greek swimming legend Spiros Gianniotis won a Silver medal for Greece in the gruelling 10k open-water swimming event in Rio. After chartering through an Olympic course  that avoids Brazil's most controversial waters, Gianniotis proved that he had the endurance required...

"Greeks have the strength to achieve anything," said gold medal winner Eleftherios Petrounias about his triumph in the men's rings finals in the Rio Olympics. Petrounias spoke to Realfm 97.8 after becoming the second Greek to win a gold medal...

Greek gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias won the gold medal in men's rings on August 15, in the Rio Olympic Games with a score of 16.000 points. He was closely followed by Brazilian Arthur Zanetti with a score of 15.766 in...

Michael Phelps made Olympic history by breaking an ancient, 2,168-year old Olympic record for 12 individual titles; the record was held by a Greek, Leonidas of Rhodes. On Saturday, the U.S. swimmer, the most decorated in Olympic history, won his...

A pole vault of 5.70 gave Greek champion Kostas Filippidis the qualification for the finals in the 2016 Rio Olympics. The Greek pole vault champion did not have to try for 5.75 as 5.70 was enough to land one of...