Olympic Games

Greek State assets in the U.S. are threatened with confiscation due to a 40 million euro fine imposed by a U.S. court against the country on the C4I case, Kathimerini newspaper reports. The case concerns the appeal by the American...

Katerina Stefanidi won the gold medal for Greece at the women's Olympic pole vault final in Rio on Friday. Stefanidi cleared 4.85m taking the sixth medal for Greece at the Rio Olympics. Sandi Morris of USA also cleared 4.85, but took...

Greek gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias won the gold medal in men's rings on August 15, in the Rio Olympic Games with a score of 16.000 points. He was closely followed by Brazilian Arthur Zanetti with a score of 15.766 in...

The Greek men water polo team won Brazil 9-4, advancing to the Rio Olympics final eight. The Olympic hosts weren't able to threaten the Greeks who are considered one of the best  teams in the 2016 Olympics. Greece will face...

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)

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...

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...

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...