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Hundreds of runners took part in the 5th International Rhodes Marathon, a race that follows a route next to the endless blue of the Aegean and the medieval walls of the capital of the Dodecanese. The Marathon is organized by...

Nineteen-year-old Athenian Stefanos Tsitsipas will face Spanish superstar Rafael Nadal in Sunday's Barcelona Open final after beating Spanish fifth seed Pablo Carreno Busta 7-5 6-3. Tsitsipas, the world number 63, is producing the best tennis of his career and becomes...

A Greek teenager upset the odds at the ATP Barcelona tennis tournament on Friday, beating fancied competitor Dominic Thiem. Nineteen-year-old Athenian Stefanos Tsitsipas produced a mature and composed display to put away the Australian third-seed clay specialist on a 6-3...

Panathinaikos football club have been banned from European competitions for three years for failing to pay their debts to former players, UEFA announced on Tuesday. The Athens club were given a suspended sentence by UEFA's Club Financial Control Body (CFCB)...

AEK are Greek champions after PAOK lost an appeal over a points deduction which came after their president stormed onto the pitch with a gun on his belt. Ivan Savvidis, who was banned on March 29 for three years and...

AEK Athens and millions of fans worldwide celebrated on Sunday the first league championship in 24 years, and 12th overall, as it leads by eight points to second PAOK, with only two games left in the season. Despite the fact...

An Irish footballer once fined €250,000 ($309,000) for attacking an Elvis Presley impersonator looks set to be fired by Greek Super League club Apollon Smyrni after going missing from training. Dublin-born Anthony Stokes, a former striker at Glasgow giants Celtic...

AEK progressed to the Greek Cup final for the third year in a row with a dramatic winner by Lazaros Christodoulopoulos in the dying seconds against AE Larissa. Lazaros' stunning acrobatic volley, already touted by football pundits as goal of...

He may not be a household name but Greek table-tennis player Panagiotis Gionis strives to achieve something only a handful of athletes have achieved in their careers by participating in his fifth Olympiad. Speaking to the Greek Reporter Gionis, born...

  Greece is well-known as a soccer-crazy country, but now people are being offered the chance to try their hand at the oval ball, as a new rugby club in Athens laces up its boots and takes to the field. April...

A football game in the Peloponnese descended into chaos as players got involved in a massive fistfight immediately after the final whistle. The game between Iraklis Kalamata and Chandrinaikos, apparently a top-of-the-table clash in the lower local division of the...

AEK beat Platanias and needs just one point to seal its first league title in 24 years. AEK relegated Platanias 1-0 (video) at Hania, to climb to 63 points from 27 games. In other action: Lamia - Apollon Smirnis  0 - 0 ...

Spanish sporting giants Real Madrid are coming to Athens for a crucial two-leg basketball clash with Panathinaikos this week, and possibly to do a little filming too. It is reported that filmmakers from the Spanish club's official TV channel have...

                   (Panathinaikos BC owner Dimitris Giannakopoulos) Panathinaikos Basketaball Club is to leave the Euroleague after the end of the season as the proposal of President Dimitris Giannakopoulos for a change in the...

Olympiacos Piraeus women's volleyball team finished victorious in the second game against Bursa and won the CEV Challenge Cup on Wednesday. After losing the first game in Piraeus with a 2-3 score, the Greek team went to Bursa, Turkey to...