Antaeus7

You got to play with who they got. Greece gotta have that "Next man up" mentality.

This should have been the match Greece can afford a point, not against Georgia.

How good is Grammatikopoulou? I wonder if this is the young prospect my lawyer was talking about?

I better hope that Greece don't just play good in friendlies and suddenly play like sk*ta in more meaningful matches such as this one. This is usually the trend I have seen over the past decade or so.

At least they will be playing in the Europa Conference League group stage.

This group isn't so tough in my opinion. PAOK can finish first place. Doesn't Zeca play for Copenhagen?

The draw result is out Olympiakos FC Eintracht Frankfurt Fenerbache SK Royal Antwerp FC

haha I meant UEL

Match ends 2-2, Olympiakos advances 5-2 on aggregate. Hello UCL group stage!

Congrats PAOK, great performance in Croatia. Good luck in your debut of the Conference League.

gggoooaaaalllll 0-2 PAOK

Slovan Bratislava 1-1 Olympiakos Slovan is playing with 10 men, a straight red card given to De Marco.

List of past World under 20 athletics championship medalists for Greece Gold - Periklis Iakovakis (Men's 400 meter hurdles) 49.82 - (1998) Annecy, France Gold - Antonios Merlos (Men's high jump) 2.23 - (2018) Tampere, Finland Silver - Lambros Papakostas (Men's high jump) 2.25 - (1988) Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Silver - Miltiadis Tentoglou (Men's long jump) 7.91 - (2016) Bydgoszcz, Poland Silver - Orestis Dousakis (Men's hammer throw) 77.78 - (2021) Nairobi, Kenya Silver - Savvas Saritsoglou (Men's hammer throw) 70.32 - (1990) Plovdiv, Bulgaria Silver - Elina Tzengko (Women's javelin throw) 59.60 - (2021) Nairobi, Kenya Silver - Konstantina Romerou (Women's triple jump) 12.55 - (2016) Bydgoszcz, Poland Bronze - Kostas Douvalidis (Men's 110 meter hurdles) 13.39 - (2006) Beijing, China Bronze - Kostas Gatsioudis (Men's javelin throw) 75.92 - (1992) Seoul, South Korea Bronze - Katerina Stefanidi (Women's pole vault) 4.25 - (2008) Bydgoszcz, Poland Bronze - Paraskevi Papachristou (Women's triple jump) 13.74 - (2008) Bydgoszcz, Poland Bronze - Iliana Korosidou (Women's hammer throw) 63.67 - (2014) Eugene, Oregon, USA Bronze - Odyessus Mouzenidis (Men's shot put) 21.07 - (2018) Tampere, Finland Bronze - Elli-Eftychia Deligianni (Women's 800 meters) 2:04.66 - (2021) Nairobi, Kenya

On the last day of the competition, Pavlidis finished 10th place at 52.83 in the men's discus throw. The Greek men's 4 x 100 relay team finished 6th place breaking another junior Greek national record of 40.07. Greece finishes with 3 medals, the most ever at a Under 20 World Athletics Championships.

Bravo to Deligianni for giving Greece it's 3rd medal and it's bronze in the women's 800 meters, which is quite rare for a Greek athlete to medal in a middle or long distance running. Her time was 2:04.66. Dragomirova finished 6th in the women's shot put with a mark of 14.57. In the women's 10,000 meters race walk, Antonopoulou produced a new PB of 49:31.80, finishing 9th place. In men's discus throw qualification, Bouzakis failed to register a mark while Pavlidis qualified for the finals with 52.64 (10th place). In the men's 4 x 100 meters relay, team Greece qualifies for the finals with a new national under 20 Greek record of 40.13 (7th place overall in the heat).

Greece got it's second silver medal from Orestis Dousakis in the men's hammer throw, finishing at 77.78. He would have won gold had the Czech hammer thrower didn't produce a Jr. national record on his 5th attempt at 77.83. Theodoros Ziogas finished 6th at 72.24. In the women's triple jump, Sotiria Rapti finished 10th place at 12.83. In the women's 800 meters, Elli-Eftychia Deligianni advanced into the finals finished 3rd in the semifinals with a time of 2:06.41. She has a good chance at Greece's third medal. Earlier in the women's 200 meters, Polyniki Emmanouilidou advanced into the semifinals finishing 3rd in the heat of 23.87. In the semifinals, she broke the Greek National Under 20 record with a time of 23.77, but it wasn't enough to go to the finals, finishing 10th overall. Both male Greek sprinters in the 200 meters (Kariofyllis and Granitsiotis) failed to qualify for the semifinals. In the women's discus throw, Sofia Kessidi finished 4th at 48.99 while Filippidou finished 5th at 48.84. In the men's pole vault, Chitas failed to register a mark.

Olympiakos are dominating this match, 3-0 lead and looking strong.

Olympiakos playing against Slovan Bratislava in the UEFA Europa League playoffs. Olympiakos win the tie, they are in the group stage of this competition. If they are eliminated, they will play in the UEFA Europa Conference League group stage.

Both the men's pole vault and women's discus throw (the Greek athletes are competing in) had to be rescheduled for Friday morning due to thunderstorms. Elina Tzengko won silver in the women's javelin throw with a mark of 59.60, the Serbian Adriana Vilagos won the event with an under 20 world lead of 61.46, beating Tzengko's mark of just 4 centimeters (61.42 at the Balkan Championships). Sotiria Rapti qualifies for the finals in the women's triple jump, equaling her personal best of 12.93 (8th place overall). Earlier in the morning session, Anna Chatzipourgianni failed to qualify for the finals in the women's 400 meter hurdles, finishing 14th overall at 1:00.67. Elli-Eftychia Deligianni finished 2rd overall in the women's 800 meters at 2:05.38. The Kenyan athlete who initially finished second in her race was disqualified.

On the first day, both hammer throwers Dousakis (2nd overall 76.25) and Ziogas (7th overall 72.61) have qualified for the finals. In the men's 100 meters heat, Panagiotopoulos just missed out on a semifinals spot, finishing 27th overall at 10.67. Gennikis failed to qualify for the finals in the men's shot put (6kg), finishing 16th overall at 16.92. And finally, Retsa just missed out on a medal in the women's pole vault, finishing 4th place at 4.05. That first miss at the opening height at 3.80 proved costly for her. Triantafyllou didn't register a mark.

The programs for the Under 20 Greek athletes in Nairobi, Kenya. Times are local Wednesday, (18/8) 09:08 (Group A) / 10:25 (Group B) Men's hammer throw (Q) - Dousakis, Ziogas 09:47 Men's shot put (Q) - Gennikis 10:20 Men's 100 meters (H) - Panagiotopoulos 16:00 Women's pole vault (Final) - Retsa, Triantafilliou 16:40 Men's 100 meters (SF) Thursday, (19/8) 09:00 Women's 400 meter hurdles (H) - Chatzipourgianni 10:50 Women's 800 meters (H) - Deligianni 14:40 Women's javelin throw (Final) - Tzengko 15:00 Men's pole vault (Final) - Chitas 15:20 Men's shot put (Final) 16:00 Women's triple jump (Q) - Rapti 16:25 Women's discus throw (Final) - Fillipidou, Kessidi 17:50 Men's 100 meters (Final) Friday, (20/8) 11:00 Women's 200 meters (H) - Emmanouilidou 11:40 Men's 200 meters (H) - Kariofyllis, Granitsiotis 14:25 Women's triple jump (Final) 16:15 Men's hammer throw (Final) 16:20 Women's 800 meters (SF) 16:40 Women's 200 meters (SF) 17:05 Men's 200 Meters (SF) Saturday, (21/8) 10:20 Women's 10,000 meters race walk (Final) - Antonopoulou 10:45 (Group A) / 11:36 (Group B) Men's discus throw (Q) - Bouzakis, Pavlidis 12:40 Men's 4 x 100 meters relay (H) - Team Greece 16:40 Women's shot put (Final) - Dragomirova 16:45 Women's 800 meters (Final) 18:00 Women's 200 meters (Final) 18:10 Men's 200 meters (Final) Sunday, (22/8) 15:00 Women's 400 meter hurdles (Final) 16:00 Men's discus throw (Final) 16:45 Men's 4 x 100 meters relay (Final)

Since Olympiakos are now playing in the UEFA Europa League playoffs, can we open a new topic?

If it's Mouzenidis, he could possibly get his medals stripped from 2018-21 depending on the doping offense.

I can see 2 medals from Greece at these games in Kenya. Elina Tzengko the heavy favorite for gold medal, Orestis Dousakis (another athlete from Chania) should get at least bronze medal in men's hammer throw since Merlin Hummel of Germany isn't going to be there. There is the possibility of a third medal in the women's discus throw from either Despoina Filippidou (55.12m this season, 3rd best) or Sofia Kessidi (52.29m) if she breaks her PB.

Any chance we may see Kyriazis get his ban cut to like 3 years? Some athletes do go for an appeal.