Rio Olympics

92 athletes will represent Greece in the Rio Olympics in August, according to the Hellenic Olympic Committee. Twenty seven athletes will compete on track, while in individual sports, 15 will be in swimming, nine in gymnastics, seven in sailing and six...

Awesome Katerina Stefanidi showed that she was in great form in the lead-up to the Rio 2016 Olympics by flying over 4.86m in the pole vault at the Filothei Athletics Gala meet - making the best result for 2016....

Greece will be without a representative at the International Olympics Committee (IOC) -- the governing body of the games -- for at least a year, reports Greece's daily newspaper Kathimerini. This will be the first time that the birthplace...

The Olympic flame for the 2016 Rio Games has been lit in ancient Olympia in Greece on Thursday, launching the torch relay for the first-ever South American Games. In a bright ceremony, the flame was lit by the sun in...