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Rick Pitino, the coach of Greek team Panathinaikos, criticized fans earlier this week for smoking and lighting flares during games, according to the Associated Press. The coach says such behavior is disrespectful to players, who would simply like to play...

Greek Canadian sabre fencing Olympian Joseph Polossifakis, along with members of the Quebec fencing federation, gave a riveting demonstration of their sport in downtown Montreal on Wednesday. An outdoor fencing strip was set up along McGill College Avenue, where the...

Greek Olympic gold medalist and world champion shooter Anna Korakaki added yet another title to her athletic career by winning the gold medal in the ISSF Munich World Cup on Wednesday. The Olympic gold medalist from Greece won first place in...

Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas progressed to the third round of the Roland-Garros French Open 2019 on Wednesday afternoon after beating Bolivia’s Hugo Dellien. Tsitsipas lost the first set 4-6 but won three straight sets afterward, with a score of...

Hundreds of Milwaukee Bucks fans shouting "MVP!" gathered at the city's airport on Sunday to greet Giannis Antetokounmpo on his return from a disappointing last game against the Toronto Raptors. Antetokounmpo scored 21 points for the Bucks, but that was...

Stefanos Tsitsipas progressed to Round 2 of the Roland-Garros French Open 2019 on Sunday after beating Germany's Maximilian Marterer in straight sets 6-2, 6-2, 7-6. The Greek tennis champion, number 6 in the ATP rankings sailed through the first two...

Greek doctor and super-athlete Georgios-Ioannis Tsianos topped the highest peak of the world, the summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas, in the early hours of Friday. After two years of painful and difficult effort, Tsianos has finally managed to...

Greece's Olympiacos basketball team will be relegated to the country's Second Basketball division, per a decision which was made public on Thursday. The decision, which was released on Thursday afternoon by an athletic judge, accuses Olympiacos of deliberately not participating in...

NBA phenomenon Giannis Antetokounmpo offered to finance the creation of a basketball arena in Rafina, Attica, Mayor Evangelos Bournus revealed recently. The revelation was made by journalist Dimitris Kottaridis, who posted on his Facebook profile on Sunday that during a...

With the Milwaukee Bucks only two wins away from the NBA finals and Giannis Antetokounmpo likely to be the MVP for the 2018-2019 season, rumors have the Los Angeles Lakers planning to snatch the Greek player when he becomes...

Katerina Stefanidi and Nicole Kyriakopoulou were off to a great start in the Shanghai Diamond League on Saturday, jumping 4.72m both in pole vault jumping and getting first and second place respectively. Stefanidi was the winner of the race, reaching...

Greek tennis giants Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari failed to make it to the Internazionali BNL d'Italia finals in Rome, losing both 0-2 to Rafael Nadal and Karolina Pliskova respectively on Saturday. Tsitsipas the 20-year-old Greek tennis wonder did not make...

Greek tennis champion Maria Sakkari beat France’s Kristina Mladenovic, 5-7, 6-3, 6-0, to reach the semifinals of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome on Friday evening, according to the World Tennis Association website. After losing the first set, Sakkari made a...

Greek tennis phenomenon Stefanos Tsitsipas has climbed two positions in tennis' ATP rankings and is now seeded seventh in the world following his stellar performance on Sunday in Madrid. This is the highest position ever reached by the Greek tennis player...

Vaggelis Chatzis, the world’s only one-armed boxer, returned to the ring on Saturday in Athens' Paleo Faliro and managed a win against his greatest rival, Bosnian pugilist Mirko Zdralo. This marks the second time the Greek boxer has triumphed in a...