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The Lighting Ceremony for the Olympic Flame will be held this year without the presence of spectators, the Hellenic Olympic Committee announced on Monday. The Committee's statement said "The Hellenic Olympic Committee held a meeting today regarding the Lighting Ceremony...

Following Friday's draw, Greece's Olympiacos football club will face England's Wolves for the round of 16 in the Europa League. https://twitter.com/EuropaLeague/status/1233375122611998720 The Wolverhampton Wanderers, as the West Midlands club is officially named, beat Spain's Espanyol in the round of 32, while...

Olympiacos celebrated one of its biggest achievements in its history by overturning a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Piraeus to win 2-1 in London on Thursday and secure a place in the last 16 of the Europa Cup. Youseff El...

Greek tennis superstar Stefanos Tsitsipas continued his successful path in this year's Dubai Tennis Championship, this time beating Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff by a score of 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday. The top Greek tennis player thus qualified for the semifinals...

Greek tennis champion Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Spain's Pablo Carreño handily, by a score of 7-6, 6-1, in Dubai on Tuesday. The winning match for Tsitsipas capped off the round of 32, with the young Greek tennis phenom now advancing to...

All the details concerning the Olympic Flame and Torch Relay Ceremonies, which will take place in Greece in March, were presented on Monday at a special informational event held at the Hellenic Olympic Committee in Athens. It was disclosed there...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Aleksander Ceferin, the President of UEFA,  signed an accord on Tuesday offering assistance in reforming Greek football, which has been plagued by crowd control and funding problems in recent years. The accord establishes a roadmap...

Greek tennis wonder, second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Canadian teenager Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday to win the Marseille Open for the second year running, Reuters reports. The victory made Tsitsipas the first man to win back-to-back trophies at...

Greece’s Olympic gymnastics champion in the still rings, Eleftherios Petrounias, won gold on Saturday at the 2020 World Cup Gymnastics held in Melbourne, Australia. His win is another step towards qualification for the Tokyo Olympics. He also needs to win  in...

Greece's Olympic gymnastics champion in the still rings, Eleftherios Petrounias, is ready to fight the battle of his life to qualify for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan later this year. Petrounias uploaded two photographs to his personal Facebook page...

A Greek athlete crossed the finish line of the grueling five-day Supermarathon in the tropical jungles of Costa Rica on Sunday, becoming the first Greek citizen to accomplish the feat of completing the "Coastal Challenge 2020." Marios Giannakou, from the...

Hundreds of people attended a ceremony on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the tragic deaths of 21 football fans on February 8, 1981. The Karaiskakis Stadium disaster is the biggest football tragedy in Greece’s history, and among the worst...

For the very first time, a woman has been chosen to launch the torch relay for the 2020 Tokyo Games at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in Greece. Greece's Olympic committee said Thursday it had chosen Rio de Janeiro...

Speaking before the Greek Parliament on Thursday evening, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that his administration will seek an agreement with the international and European governing bodies of football to address issues with the country's troubled Superleague. Greece aims to draft...

The Greek Parliament on Wednesday approved a last-minute amendment introduced by the government which spares Greece's football champion PAOK and Xanthi FC from being relegated down from the Superleague. The government's amendment garnered 156 positive votes, while 90 MPs voted...