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In men's pole vault, USA's Sam Kendricks (who is one of the favorites to win gold) will be out after tested positive for COVID-19. Also, Russia's Timur Morgunov (won silver in the 2018 European Championship) is out after he was not selected as one of 10 Russian athletes to take part as ANA. This could give Karalis little hope of qualifying for the finals.

Korakaki will have another qualifying round to complete, next one is the rapid fire. She is currently in 2nd. Top 8 advances to the finals. Psarra eliminated by Lin 6-4, started off well in the two sets, stumbled in the last three. Greece defeats Japan 10-9 in men's water polo, it was close. The mixed Greek swimming team in the 4x100 did not qualify, finished 11th overall. Kokkalanis and Divari both were eliminated from their respective sailing events and will not compete in the medal round. Kalachaliou is currently 9th in the Laser Radial race and has 2 races left, she got to produce a good showing in order to compete in the medal round. Sakkari/Tsitsipas lost to Australia's Barty/Peers 4-6, 6-4, (6-10). In rowing, a disappointing finish for the Greek women's pair as they finished 5th. Maria's older sister Annette Kyridou failed to qualify for the medal round in the women's single sculls Douskos won his race in the semifinals and will be contesting for a medal later today.

Korakaki will be performing in the 25m pistol qualification precision which I am expecting her to go to the finals. This shooting event she does better than the 10m air pistol. Psarra is facing Lin of Taiwan in the round of 32 women's individual archery. Lots of sailing action during the morning session. Greece face host nation Japan in the men's polo water. In swimming, the mixed 4x100 team will perform around 06:27 Tokyo time to try to qualify for the finals. In that group, Theodora Drakou is from Patras, where I was born. Iakovidis lifts on Saturday in the 96 kg class.

The schedule for the Greek athletes in track and field (Those times posted are local in Tokyo) Friday (30/7) 12:15 Women's 100 meters (H) Spanoudaki 19:05 Women's triple jump (Q) Papachristou Saturday (31/7) 09:30 (Group A) 10:55 (Group B) Women's discus throw (Q) Anagnostopoulou 09:40 Men's pole vault (Q) Filippidis, Karalis 10:45 Women's 100 meter hurdles (H) Pesiridou 19:10 Men's long jump (Q) Tentoglou 19:15 Women's 100 meters (SF) 21:50 Women's 100 meters (Final) Sunday (1/8) 09:10 (Group A) 10:40 (Group B) Women's hammer throw (Q) Skarveli 19:45 Women's 100 meter hurdles (SF) 20:15 Women's triple jump (Final) Monday (2/8) 09:00 (Group A) 10:30 (Group B) Men's hammer throw (Q) Anastasakis, Frantzeskakis 10:20 Men's long jump (Final) 10:30 Women's 200 meters (H) Spanoudaki 11:50 Women's 100 meter hurdles (Final) 19:20 Women's pole vault (Q) Stefanidi, Kyriakopoulou, Polak 19:25 Women's 200 meters (SF) 20:00 Women's discus throw (Final) Tuesday (3/8) 09:00 Men's triple jump (Q) Tsiamis 09:45 Women's 400 meters (H) Vasiliou 19:10 Men's 110 meter hurdles (H) Douvalidis 19:20 Men's's pole vault (Final) 20:35 Women's hammer throw (Final) 21:50 Women's 200 meters (Final) Wednesday (4/8) 11:00 Men's 110 meter hurdles (SF) 19:30 Women's 400 meters (SF) 20:15 Men's hammer throw (Final) Thursday (5/8) 11:00 Men's triple jump (Final) 11:55 Men's 110 meter hurdles (Final) 19:20 Women's pole vault (Final) Friday (6/8) 05:30 Men's 50 km race walk (Final) Papamichail 16:30 Women's 20 km race walk (Final) Drisbioti, Tsinopoulou, Filtisakou 21:35 Women's 400 meters (Final)

Kristian Gkolomeev is our only Greek swimmer left who has a good shot at a medal, he has the 4th fastest time in the 50m freestyle coming into the Tokyo Olympics at 21.45.

Tsitspas eliminated from Humbert of France 6-2, 6-7 (4-7), 2-6 Teltsidou eliminated from Scoccimarro of Germany Both Papastamos (35th) and Vazaios (27th) did not qualify for the semifinals in the men's 200m individual medley swimming On the positive side, Tsitsipas and Sakkari advance into the quarterfinals beating Canadian duo Dabrowski/Auger-Aliassime 6-3, 6-4 in the mixed doubles. For sailing, if any Greeks are eligible for the medal rounds, it will take place this weekend. I will get the full detail by then.

Teltsidou lost to Tamiazova 10-0 on Ippon She will be heading into the repechage round and must win to advance into the additional bronze medals games.

Wow! Maria Kyridou & Christina Bourmpou just broke the World Best Time in the semifinals of 6:48.70 to qualify first place in style! Big bravo to the young girls from Thessaloniki!!!

Svitolina was the better player, Sakkari could not handle her power serves and returns. At least Sakkari did what Danilidou couldn't do and that is reaching the round of 16 at the Olympic Games. Greece and Italy fought out a 6-6 draw in men's water polo.

Tsitsipas got his revenge and eliminated Tiafoe 6-3, 6-4 to advance into the third round (best of 16). Gionis suffered a meltdown in the 5th set, up 10-4 (3-1 in sets) only needed a point to win the match and lost out on deuce 12-10 to force a 6th set where Jeoung of South Korea finished him off in the final two sets (6-11, 12-14) to advance into the round of 16. This one stings.

Greece's real first chance of a medal could be from Vasileia Karachaliou from women's sailing (Laser Radial) or Stefanos Douskos from men's rowing (Single Sculls).

Tropical storm Nepartak is expecting to strike well north of Tokyo that could impact all water sports events. It is not forecasting to be a Typhoon.

Results from yesterday: Polychronis Tzortzakis finished 63rd in the men's road race at 6:16:53. Eleftherios Petrounias qualifies for the finals in the men's rings with 15.333 points. Panagiotis Gionis defeats Serbia's Peto 4-0 to advance into the second round of men's table tennis to face Saleh of Egypt. Maria Sakkari defeats Estonia's Kontaveit 7-5, 6-2 in women's singles tennis to advance into the second round to face Serbia's Stojanovic. Christina Bourbou & Maria Kyridou have finished 5th in the rowing women's pair heat to advance into repechage and must finish top three from that round to advance into the semifinals A/B. In Men's swimming, Apostolos Papastamos finished 14th in the 400m individual medley with 4:12.50 and failed to advanced to the finals. In women's swimming, Anna Ntountounaki finished 13th in the 100m butterfly with 57.75 to advance into the semifinals.

On Sat, 24 July, Polychronis Tzortzakis will be in the Men's Road Race (Cycling) at 11:00

Here are the scheduled events for the Greek athletes. More to follow later in the week. Keep in mind that the schedule here are posted for the events in Tokyo local time, so for the people who live in North America or Europe some of the events are live a day before. Keep track of your local time so you don't miss the event. Fri, 23 July Stefanos Ntouskos - Men's Single Sculls Heat 2 (Rowing) 8:40 Evangaelia Psarra - Women's Individual Ranking Round (Archery) 9:00 Anneta Kyridou - Women's Single Sculls Heat 2 (Rowing) 9:40 Sat, 24 July Maria Kyridou & Christina Bourmpou - Women's Pair Heat 1 (Rowing) 9:50 Panagiotis Gionis - Men's Singles Round 1 (Table Tennis) 15:00 Apostolos Papastamos - Men's 400m Individual Medley Heat 3 (Swimming) 19:13 Anna Ntountounaki - Women's 100m Butterfly Heat 5 (Swimming) 19:35 Maria Sakkari - Women's Singles First Round (Tennis) TBA Stefanos Tsitsipas - Men's Singles First Round (Tennis) TBA Sun, 25 July Anna Korakaki - 10m Air Pistol Women's Qualification (Shooting) 9:00 Nikolaos Mavrommatis - Skeet Men's Qualification (Shooting) 10:00 Fani Tzeli - Women's 57 km Round of 16 (Taekwondo) 10:56 Greece vs. Hungary - Men's Preliminary Round (Water Polo) 11:30 Dimitrios Markos - Men's 200m Freestyle Heat 1 (Swimming) 19:17 Apostolos Christou - Men's 100m Backstroke Heat 6 (Swimming) 20:03 Team Greece - Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Heat 1 (Swimming) 20:30

Last night Giannis Antetokounmpo and his Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA championship in 6 games over the Phoenix Suns. As expected, he was picked the NBA Finals MVP. First title for the franchise in 50 years. All three brothers have NBA rings (Kostas with the Lakers last year). Giannis joins a big list of NBA greats to score 50 points in NBA Finals history. Congrats and you have made Greece very proud!

This coming Tokyo Olympics looks to be more promising than Rio for our Greek athletes. It is possible we could see more than 6 medals (2 possibly in athletics).

The under 20 European Championship was pretty rough for Greece with the exception of a few positive results Orestias Ntousakis finishing 4th in the men's hammer throw at 76.76. Polyniki Emmanouilidou reached the 100 meter women's final finishing 6th. She produced a lifetime best of 11.55 in the semifinals. Elli-Efthia Delligianni missed out on a bronze medal at the 800 meters (which she should have won because of a clear interference from the Swiss girl, but didn't get DQ in the process) produced a Greek national U20 record of 2:04.11. Vasiliki Kallimogani got a Greek national U20 record in the women's 3000 meter steeplechase with 10:31.72. Finally, Elina Tzengko brought Greece it's only medal of the competition, won gold with an impressive throw of 61.18. She was trying to break the U20 European Championship record of 61.52 held by Nikoletta Szabo of Hungary.

This Houston doctor worked 267 straight days in the hospital fighting COVID, what a bravo man!

Any idea who in athletics have the virus? I can't find the names.

The under 23 European Championship has been a good one for Greece, with the exception of a couple of heartbreak moments where Greece could have gotten 2 additional medals. They finished with 4 medals (3 silver 1 bronze). Silver Christos Frantzeskakis - Men's hammer throw 75.23 Spyridoula Karydi - Women's triple jump 13.95 Emmanuel Karalis - Men's pole vault 5.65 Bronze Odysseas Mouzenidis - Men's shot put 19.41 Notables Dimitris Tsitsos - Men's javelin throw 78.22 personal best (just missed out on a bronze medal) Marios Anagnostou - Men's 5000 meters 14:06.94 personal best

Dimitris Tsiamis has been added to the Greek athletics team which brings the total to 20.

The under 20 Greek squad in Tallin, Estonia Άνδρες Κ20 100μ./4Χ100 μ.: Νίκος Παναγιωτόπουλος (Αθλος Κερατσινίου) 200μ./4Χ100 μ.: Γιάννης Καριοφύλλης (ΓΑΣ Σκάλας) 800 μ.: Σπύρος Ντουραχάνης (ΑΟ Κέρκυρας 2015) 3.000 μ.: Παναγιώτης Πετρουλάκης (ΓΑΣ Ιλισσός) 3.000 μ.: Νίκος Σταμούλης (ΓΕ Αγρινίου) Επί κοντώ: Σωτήρης Χύτας (Αμεινίας Μεσογείων) Μήκος: Θοδωρής Σκουρός (Αθηναϊκός Όμιλος) Μήκος: Ανδρέας Αντωνακόπουλος (ΟΦΚΑ Οδυσσέας) Τριπλούν: Γιώργος Βασιλογιαννακόπουλος (Μεσσηνιακός ΓΣ) Τριπλούν: Σπύρος Καραλής (ΟΣΦΠ) Σφαιροβολία/Δισκοβολία: Κωστας Γεννίκης (ΟΦΚΑ Σερρών) Σφαιροβολία: Αννίβας Οικονόμου (Αμεινίας Μεσογείων) Δισκοβολία: Κώστας Μπουζάκης (ΓΣ Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος) Δισκοβολία: Δημήτρης Παυλίδης (ΑΣ Αίας Κιλκίς) Σφυροβολία: Ορέστης Ντουσάκης (ΓΣ Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος) Σφυροβολία: Θοδωρής Ζιώγας (ΓΑΣ Νιγρίτας) Σφυροβολία: Νικόλας Πολυχρονίου (ΑΕΚ) 10.000 μ. βάδην: Ανδρέας Μπαχός (ΑΣ Αιγίου Αθηνόδωρος) 10.000 μ. βάδην: Αλέξανδρος Μορτζάκης (ΑΕ Ολυμπίας Πατρών) 4Χ100 μ.: Κώστας Μίλιος (Αθλος Άρτας) Γυναίκες Κ20 100 μ./200 μ.: Πολυνίκη Εμμανουηλίδου (ΑΣΣ Αλέξανδρος Μακεδονίας) 800 μ.: Ελλη - Ευτυχία Δεληγιάννη (ΣΑΚΑ) 1.500 μ.: Βασιλεία Σπύρου (Πανιώνιος) 5.000 μ.: Ιωάννα Πασπαλιάρη (Πανιώνιος) 3.000 μ. στιπλ: Βασιλική Καλιμογιάννη (ΓΣ Ηρακλής) 3.000 μ. στιπλ: Νικολέττα Ραφαϊλάκη (ΑΟ Λασιθίου) 400 μ. εμπ.: Άννα Χατζηπουργάνη (ΓΑΣ Αρχέλαος) Ύψος: Σάντυ Παπακώστας (ΟΦΚΑ Περιστερίου) Επί κοντώ: Ηλιάνα Τριανταφύλλου (ΓΣ Σέρρες 93) Επί κοντώ: Αναστασία Ρέτσα (Αμεινίας Μεσογείων) Τριπλούν: Σωτηρία Ράπτη (ΑΓΣΙ) Σφαιροβολία: Αναστασία Ντραγκομίροβα (ΑΣ Κένταυρος) Σφαιροβολία: Μαρία Σουγκλάκου (σφαιροβολία) Σφαιροβολία: Μαρία Ανδρεάδη (ΓΣ Ηλιούπολης) Δισκοβολία: Αρετή Φιλιππίδου (ΑΣΣ Αλέξανδρος Μακεδονίας) Δισκοβολία: Σοφία Κεσσίδη (ΑΣ Κένταυρος) Ακοντισμός: Ελίνα Τζένγκο (ΑΣ Κένταυρος) 10.000 μ. βάδην: Αναστασία Αντωνοπούλου (Ικαρος Ν. Ιωνίας) 4Χ100 μ.: Γεράσιμος Καμπίτσης (ΣΑΚΑ) 4Χ100 μ.: Γιάννης Γρανιτσιώτης (ΓΟ Γιάννης Παλάσκας)

Congrats to the Czech Republic for qualifying it's first ever men's basketball Olympic Games. They fully deserve it. At least I am very happy Turkey isn't going. lol

Forgive me Blackhawk, I realized you posted his name on the list.