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That's what happens when you read the Daily Mail...You only get half the story. Athens leapt into the 21st Century thanks to the 2004 Olympics but the English press keeps on about doom and gloom for London in 2012. Btw, the Daily Express is even worse!

2 silver, 2 bronze... :whistle:

AT LAST something to cheer about! His final match is in less than 1 hour! All the best to this Nikolaidis! * *and the other one

Where in Beijing was that played??? :P

You want more! :blink: August 20 was not a good day for Greece! Hopefully, tomorrow will be better

Greece loses to Argentina 78-80...

Kaklamanakis finished 8th (outside the medals) and Kostas Douvalidis was eliminated in the semi-finals (he would have had to break the Greek record again to qualify). Let's see how our basketball team does :rolleyes:

In my days zip was being invested in athletics. Double-zip for women. Anyone know what the story is now? Btw, our water polo team defeated China. I think the score was 13-8. Kaklamanakis has a good chance for a medal in sailing, later in the day. Also, our basketball team plays Argentina in the quarters. :gr:

I read yesterday that one of the athletes caught on performance-enhancing drugs was a shooter (skopeftis). How on earth do drugs enhance the performance of a shooter? :blink:

Results 18/8/2008: *Stella Papadopoulou qualified for the finals in the hammer throw. :) *Kostas Douvalidis qualified for the next round in the 110m hurdles. :) *Greece defeated PR China in basketball 91-77 :tup: *Spain - Greece 10-6 in water polo :tdown:

A big BRAVO to Pigi Devetzi! :tup: She competed cleanly and brought back a medal once more in the Olympics for Greece! :gr:

Say it ain't so, Fani... :(

Louis Tsatoumas has qualified for the finals in the long jump! :gr:

04.00:

Qualifiers in the women's triple jump: Yargelis Savigne (Cub), Victoria Gurova (Rus), Olga Rypakova (Kaz), Anna Pyatykh (Rus), Marija Sestak (Slo), Hrysopiyi Devetzi (Gre), :gr: Tatyana Lebedeva (Rus) Francoise Mbango Etone (Cam), Olga Saladukha (Ukr), Xie Limei (Chn), Kaire Leibak (Est), Tricia-Kaye Smith (Jam)

Greece - Germany 87-64! :D The USA is next...

@Drakos13, Don't be disappointed! I read this thread daily to find out what's happening! Btw, when is the track and field - the real Olympics?

In the interest of fairness, here is Katerina's reply to the IOC (in Greek): From Sportaction

Nice try, Katerina, but the IOC will have none of it: From the BBC Our women's 100m entry has been told she cannot compete in the Beijing games.

When will they get it right... :tdown:

UEFA's flirt with Italy goes back many years... This is before the time of many of you but once, in a European competition, an Italian club (Inter?) lost 7-1 to a German team in the 2nd leg of that competition. A few Italian supporters were so disgusted with their team, they threw objects onto the pitch. Guess what? UEFA decided that the German hosts lost control of the crowd and invalidated the 7-1 result! The teams were ordered to play again, in a neutral venue, and Inter went through after a 0-0 result!

In Wales, a Montgomery Town goalkeeper scores from 80 yards out: From the BBC