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Greek athlete Emmanouil Karalis broke the world record in the teen pole vault by "flying" over 5.78-meter (18.96 feet) in the second day of the Pan-Hellenic Teen Track Championship on Sunday. The previous record was held by Swedish-American pole vaulter...

  AEK had to be satisfied with a 1-0 penalty win against Asteras on Sunday to move top of the Greek league despite wasting a plethora of scoring opportunities. Among the Athenians' forwards, Sergio Araujo alone had five scoring chances, with...

Greek athletes were in the spotlight on Friday as they took their traditional place in leading thousands of international competitors into a huge Olympic opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea. The squad will represent Greece -- birthplace of the Olympics...

AEK sent Greek champions Olympiacos crushing out of the Greek Cup at the quarter final stage winning 2-1 at the Athens Olympic Stadium on Wednesday. The Athens club had earned a goalless draw on the first leg at Georgios Karaiskakis. Two...

A Greek football side from the island of Lesvos were winners both on and off the pitch in a recent game against a neighboring Turkish squad. Pallesviakos football club's veteran team travelled to Ayvalik on Sunday for a friendly game ...

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 23 points in Milwaukee’s 103-89 win over the New York Knicks including two memorable ones in the dunk of the year so far. The Greek freak received a lob pass and leapt high, plucked the ball with...

In a land where ice hockey rules, four lifelong Greek-Canadian football fans -- friends for over 20 years -- have united to bring soccer to Toronto’s young people. Nick Papalambropoulos, Markos Dimopoulos, Giorgio Trikkas and Johnny Giorgopoulos have been offering...

Greek Champions Olympiacos suffered a home defeat to rivals AEK and slipped four points behind PAOK who tops the table after securing an emphatic win at PAS Giannina. AEK came from behind to score twice in the last six minutes...

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

PAOK Thessaloniki was ordered to pay €20,000 ($25,000) in damages to two policemen  injured during clashes between football fans and police two years ago. It is the first time in Greek soccer history a club was ordered to pay compensation...

After two away wins in Piraeus; one for the Greek league and one for the Euroleague, Panathinaikos scored a third win against Olympiakos. This time they won at home for the domestic league, proving they can beat their "eternal"...

PAOK won away from home at Agrinio and moved to the top of the Greek Superleague as Olympiacos dropped two valuable points at Tripoli. AEK remained in third place after winning 2-0 against Lamia on Saturday. PAOK made it seven wins...

A veteran Greek windsurfing champion is showing he still has what it takes in a series of stunning photographs taken in Crete. Nikos Kaklamanakis, an Olympic gold medalist and three-time Mistral class windsurfing champion, posted images of himself battling the elements...

A cinema in the Athenian suburb of Nea Smyrni was forced to cancel a film premiere after fans of a local football team threatened to ransack the premises. Panionios fans were enraged at the decision of the cinema to screen...

Greece's national football team will face Hungary, Finland and Estonia in a new UEFA Nations League tournament which could end in Euro 2020 qualification. In another group of the same division, Cyprus was drawn to face Slovenia, Norway and Bulgaria. This...