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Greek rowers Katerina Nikolaidou and Sofia Asoumanaki finished fourth in the double sculls final in Rio’s Olympics on Thursday with a time of 7:48.62. Poland’s Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozlowska and Natalia Madaj won the gold with 7:40:10. (Source: ANA-MPA)

On Thursday gold and bronze Olympic medalist Anna Korakaki returned to Athens. The 20-year-old received a royal welcome at the airport by the Minister of Interior Panagiotis Kouroumplis, military guards and media as she made her way off the plane...

Υ What Anna Korakaki achieved on Tuesday night in Rio, no other contemporary Greek athlete has managed before: To bring two Olympic medals to Greece in the same competition. The last time this happened was in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, when...

Greek rowing athletes Aikaterini Nikolaidou and Sofia Asoumanaki are one of the teams that is most likely to win a place in the rowing finals at the Olympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro. The Greek team finished first in the...

Tuesday was the fourth day of the Rio 2016 Olympic games and Greece's Anna Korakaki beat out the competition in the women's 25 meter pistol competition to become the first Greek woman to win more than one medal in...

The third day of the Greek athletes in the Rio Olympics started with a great performance of the men's water polo team that ended with a 9-9 draw against world champions Serbia. Despite a great start that found the Greeks...

The 47-year-old Portuguese Paulo Bento will be the new head coach of Olympiacos, after the two sides came to an agreement late on Monday. Bento will take the helm of Greece's champions after a short, unsuccessful stint of Spanish manager Victor...

Cyprus' Olympic medalist Pavlos Kontides enters the race in sailing on Monday with hopes of bringing back a gold medal for his Mediterranean island. In the RS:X class, Cypriot sailor Andreas Kariolou will also begin his effort in his fourth...

A total of 13 athletes of Greek descent who were forced to emigrate for different reasons are competing under their new, adopted flags in the Rio Olympics, according to a Kathimerini newspaper report. Some of them were born in their...

The Embassy of Greece in Canberra sent a letter of complaint to the Seven Network regarding the historical inaccuracies its commentators made about Philip the Second and Alexander the Great during the Rio Olympics opening ceremony. Andrew Gaze, the host...

Greek athlete Anna Korakaki won the first medal for Greece in the Olympic Games in Rio. Korakaki took the bronze medal at the 10m air pistol final and the first for Greece in the Olympic shooting competition since 1920...

Ten months after fleeing the Syrian capital of Damascus, Syrian refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini has been selected together with nine fellow refugees to be part of the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT) at the Olympic Games Rio 2016. The 18...

Artistic gymnast and Olympian Eleftherios Petrounias put on a stunning performance to make it to the Men's Rings final in Rio. The Greek champion performed an unmistakably impeccable program and is a favorite to win a gold medal in the...

The Olympic Games 2016 kicked off on Friday, August 5 with the opening ceremony that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Following the tradition of past years, the Greek athletes led the athletes’ parade, because of the country’s...

Ten refugee athletes made history on Friday evening marching into Maracana Stadium in Brazil during the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. For the first time in the history of the modern Olympics a team has been...