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It's actually 100 athletes that will take part, since Filtisakou has been dropped from the Olympic team. even though it was not officially announced yet, it is obvious that she is the one that tested positive for the banned substance.

Apparently PAOK has received two different offers from Uruguay for the purchase of Quagliata. Hopefully they won't think twice about it at PAE PAOK.

Not a bad draw, but we could have gotten Jagellonia, which would have been better. The only thing that worries me is that Malmo is in the middle of their season with 16 game under their belt. I don't think we will have any major problems with them, but then again we thought the same about Ostersunds.

On Monday , the draw for Qualifying Round 3 is to take place. PAOK, if we make it past Banja Luka will again be seeded. Here are the seedings: SEEDED PAOK Thessaloniki - Borac Banja Luka FC Steaua Bukurest - Maccabi Tel-Aviv Ferencvaros Budapest - The New Saints Qarabag - Lincoln Red Imps Slovan Bratislava - Celje UNSEEDED Ludogorets Razagad - Dinamo Minsk FC Midtjylland - UE Santa Coloma Sparta Prague - Shamrock Rovers Malmo FF - KI Klaksvik APOEL Nicosia - Petrocub Hincesti Jagiellonia Bialystok - Panevezys We will play one of the winners from the unseeded matchups.

Braithwaite is signing with Olympiakos. Portuguese media report that Meite has turned down PAOK's offers and will go to Saudi Arabia.

VS MATCHUP: PAOK Thessaloniki – NK Borac Banja Luka COMPETITION: Champions League – Qualifying Round 2 – Leg 1 DATE: 24-July-2024 TIME: 20:30 EEST (17:30 UTC, 12:30 CDT, 03:30 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium (28,703) REFEREES: David Šmajc - David Gabrovec, Tomaž Cerne (Slovenia) TELEVISION: PAOK’s History against teams from Bosnia-Herzegovina This is the first PAOK matchup against a team from Bosnia-Herzegovina. GAMES: 0 WINS: 0 TIES: 0 LOSSES: 0

Banja Luka wins it on penalties.

The game is going into extra time as Egnatia won in regular time 2:1. From 20 minutes that I have seen, we should not have hard time disposing of either of the two teams. The qualification should be easily decided in the first game at Toumba. BTW if you want to see the extra time here is a youtube stream:

Today we learn who we will play next week. Banja Luka takes a 1:0 lead into Albania and has the upper hand in qualifying.

I just hope it's not Drisbioti after all the success she had in recent years.

We are done chasing Braithwaite.

We will easily make the league stage of Europa League with the current players. It's the playoff round of CL that will be tough.

It is being reported that a female track and field athlete that is part of the Olympic team has tested positive for banned substance. It is believed that it is one of two athletes that will take part in the 20 km walk competition. We might be looking for a new flag bearer for the opening ceremonies.

Hellooooooooooo, there is still 1.5 month left until the transfer period ends. Martin Braithwaite is a free agent and apparently we made two separate offer to. One is 1+1 deal at 2mil and the other one 1.8 mil for 2 years. Also reports are that the player is talking with Everton.

Of course he is a professional athlete and when "money talks, bullshit walks" as we say here in Chicago. I am not really surprised that this happened. The only thing I would question PAE PAOK is why didn't they have him sign a clause when they sold that he can' re-sign with any Greek team.

Looks like have sold over 14,000 season tickets as of today.

Looks like Genoa has made an improved offer for Kotarski. Reports are that it is close to 8 mil, which is still short of the 9 to 10 mil that PAOK is asking for.

I am 99.9% sure that this punishment will be erased on appeal.

Banja Luka wins the game 1:0 with a goal 97th minute. Second red for Egnatia player in 102nd minute. Game finally ended in 116th minute.

We play 2 games on Saturday. First we play Saint-Gilloise and couple hours later Vitesse. I think the main team will dress up against Saint-Gilloise and this game will serve as the final test before our CL game. Second stringers will play against Vitesse.

BTW the teams in the 1-4 playoffs and 9-14 playouts keep the same points after the end of regular season. The 5-8 teams have their points divided in half going into the European spot tournament. It is also possible that the team that finishes in 5th place does not get the European spot if a team outside of the 1-4 playoffs wins the Greek Cup. It's my belief that these stupid playoffs/playouts should be abolished forever.

The Hellenic Olympic Committee has decided that the flag bearers during the opening ceremonies for Greece will be Giannis ANTETOKOUNMPO and Antigoni DRISBIOTI

The 101 Greek athletes going to the 2024 Olympics in Paris: Basketball (12) Men's National Team Giannis ANTETOKOUNMPO Kostas ANTETOKOUNMPO Nick CALATHES Vasilis CHARALAMPOPOULOS Michalis KALAITZAKIS Giannoulis LARENTZAKIS Dinos MITOGLOU Dimitris MORAITIS Kostas PAPANIKOLAOU Georgios PAPAGIANNIS Vasilis TOLIOPOULOS Thomas WALKUP Cycling (1) Georgios BOUGLAS -road race Equestrian (1) Ioli MYTILINAIOU - jumping Fencing (1) Dora GOUDOURA - Sabre Gymnastics (1) Lefteris PETROUNIAS (rings) Judo (2) MEN Theodoros TSELIDIS – 90 kg WOMEN Elizabeth TELTSIDOU – 70 kg Rowing (7) MEN Stefanos DOUSKOS - Single Scull Antonis PAPAKONSTANTINOU - Lightweight Double Scull Petros GADATZIS - Lightweight Double Scull WOMEN Zoe FITSIOU - Lightweight Double Scull Milena KONTOU - Lightweight Double Scull Christina BOURBOU - Coaxless Pair Evangelia ANASTASIADOU - Coaxless Pair Sailing (4) Vyronas KOKKALANIS - IQFoil Cameron MARAMENIDIS - Formula Kite Odysseas SPANAKIS - 470 Mixed Ariadne SPANAKI - 470 Mixed Shooting (5) MEN Makis MITAS - Skeet Babis CHALKIADAKIS – Skeet WOMEN Emmanouela KATSOURAKI - Skeet Anna KORAKAKI - 10 m Pistol, 25 m Pistol Christina MOSCHI - 10 m Pistol Swimming (17) MEN Stergios BILAS - 50 m Freestyle, 4x100 m Freestyle Apostolos CHRISTOU - 100 m Backstroke, 200 m Backstroke, 4x100 m Individual Medley Euaggelso DOUMAS - 4x100 m Individual Medley Panagiotis BOLANOS - 4x100 m Freesetyle Konstantinos EGGLEZAKIS - 4x 200 m Freestyle Christian Golomeev - 50 m Freestyle Alkis KINIGAKIS - 10 km Open Water Vaggelis MAKRYGIANNIS - 100 m Backstroke Dimitris MARKOS - 800 m Free Style, 1500 m Freestyle, 4x200 m Freestyle Odysseas MELANIDIS - 4x 100 m Freestyle Apostolos PAPASTAMOS - 200 m Individual Medley, 400 m Individual Medley Apostolos SISKOS - 200 m Backstroke Konstantinos STAMOU - 4x200 m Freestyle Andreas VAZAIOS - 4x100 m Freestyle, 4x200 m Freestyle WOMEN Georgia DAMASIOTI - 100 m Butterfly, 200 m Butterfly Theodora DRAKOU - 50 m Freestyle, 4x100 m Individual Medley Anna DOUNDOUNAKI - 100 m Butterfly, 4x100 m Mixed Individual Medley Synchronized Swimming (2) Euaggelia PLATANIOTI - Duet Sofia MALKOGEORGOU - Duet Table Tennis (1) Panagiotis GIONIS - singles Tennis (4) MEN Stefanos TSITSIPAS - Singles, Doubles, Mixed Doubles Petros TSITSIPAS - Doubles WOMEN Despina PAPAMICHAIL – Doubles Maria SAKKARI - Singles, Mixed Doubles Track & Field (14) MEN Michalis ANASTASAKIS – Hammer Throw Christos FRANTZESKAKIS – Hammer Throw Emmanouil KARALIS - Pole Vault Miltos TENTOGLOU - Long Jump WOMEN Ariadni ADAMOPOULOU – Pole Vault Panagiota DOSI – High Jump Antigoni DRISBIOTI - 20 km Walk Polyniki EMMANOULIDOU – 100 m, 200 m Kyriaki FILTISAKOU – 20 km Walk Tatiana GOUSIN – High Jump Eleni POLAK – Pole Vault Stamatia SCARVELI – Hammer Throw Katerina STEFANIDI - Pole Valt Elina TZENGO – Javelin Throw Water Polo (26) Men's National Team (13 athletes) Stelios ARGYROPOULOS KANAKAKIS Giannis FOUNTOULIS Dinos GENIDOUNIAS Nikos GILLAS Kostas KAKARIS Stathis KALOGEROPOULOS Dimitris NIKOLAIDIS Alexandros PAPANASTASIOU Nikos PAPANIKOLAOU Dimitris SKOUMBAKIS Panagiotis TZORTZATOS Aggelos VLACHOPOULOS Manos ZERVEDAS Women's National Team (13 athletes) Alexandra ASIMAKI Ioanna CHYDIRIOTI Chysoula DIAMANTOPOULOU Nikoleta ELEFTHERIADOU Athina GIANNOPOULOU Maria MYRIOKEFALITAKI Eirini NINOU Maria PATRA Eleftheria PLEVRITOU Margarita PLEVRITOU Vasiliki PLEVRITOU Ioanna STAMATOPOULOU Eleni XENAKI Wrestling (3) MEN Georgios KOUGIOUMTSIDIS - 74 kg Freestyle Dauren KOUROUGLIEV - 86 kg Freestyle WOMEN Maria PREVOLARAKI - 53 kg Freestyle

I thought we gave up on him about a month ago. We were going for him as a replacement after we sold Konstantelias.

I doubt they will offer 10 mil, and if they do, I would wait until end of August to sell him after we qualify for the League Stage of CL. In other new we are apparently letting Tzimas go for free to Asteras Tripoli, but will keep a small resale percentage. He had a decent loan season at PAS Giannina.