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First results for Greek athletes: In rowing Stefanos Douskos won his heat in Single Sculls and qualified to the quarterfinal race. Aneta Kyridou finished 3rd in her heat in Single Sculls and also qualified to quarterfinals. In Archery Evaggelia Psarra competing in her 6th Olympics finished 44th (out of 64 competitors) in the Ranking Round and as a result will face Lin of Taipei in the Round of 32 elimination round. This morning we had the opening ceremonies with Korakaki and Petrounias as the flag bearers for for Greece:

I can't go back on what i said before the qualifiers (others did as well) which is if we drop any points against Georgia or Kosovo we have NO chance at finishing 2nd. Yes Georgia gave Sweden and Spain a tough match but at the end of the day both those teams found a way to secure 3 points because that's what good teams do and we couldn't. Greece is now 4 points behind Sweden and we have both played 2 matches. There is no guarantee Spain take all 6 points from Sweden in fact I can see Sweden getting two draws but the most important factor is I can't see Greece beating Sweden to gain any ground, at most I can see a draw. It's like JVS didn't trust what he's been preaching its almost like he watched tapes from the Georgia game and had his team playing more scared not to concede then rather play high tempo that allowed us to create chances against teams like Slovenia and Kosovo (even though we didn't score we had chances). I have not been a hater or a huge supporter of JVS but i wanted to give him time to prove himself and he has done good things as there have been games where Greece were attacking and creating like I've never seen them before but the consistency is not there and this team is still lacking an identity of how the want to play and after the Georgia and Spain game it shows now more then ever.