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Turns out the second athlete (swimmer) with COVID issues had a negative test and is now cleared to travel to Tokyo. With that in mind here is the complete and final list of Greek athletes that will compete in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo: ARCHERY (1) Euaggelia PSARRA (Individual) CYCLING (3) Periklis ILIAS (Mountain Bike) Polychronis TZORTZAKIS (Road Cycling) Christos VOLIKAKIS (Track Cycling) FENCING (1) Dora GOUNDOURA (Sabre) JUDO (2) Alexis DANATSIDIS (81 kg) Elizabeth TELTSIDOU( 70 kg) ROWING (4) Stefanos DOUSKOS (Single Scull) Christina BOURBOU (Coaxless Pair) Maria KYRIDOU (Coaxless Pair) Aneta KYRIDOU (Single Scull) SAILING (8) Pavlos KAGIALIS (470) Panagiotis MANTIS (470) Vyronas KOKKALANIS (RSX) Giannis MITAKIS (Finn) Katerina DIVARI (RSX) Vasilia KARACHALIOU (Radial) Ariadni SPANAKI (470) Aimalia TSOULFA (470) SHOOTING (2) Nikos MAVROMATIS (Skeet) Anna KORAKAKI (10 m pistol, 25 m pistol) SWIMMING (12) Apostolos CHRISTOU (100 m Freestyle, 100 m Backtsroke, 4x100 m Freestyle, 4x100 Individual Medley, 4x100 Mixed Individual Medley) Kostas EGGLEZAKIS (800 m Freestyle) Kristian GOLOMEEV (50 m freestyle, 4X100 m Freestyle) Alkis KINIGAKIS (10 KM Open Swim) Vaggelis MAKRYGIANNIS (4x100 m Individual Medley) Dimitris MARKOS (800 m Freestyle) Odysseas MELANIDIS (4x100 Freestyle) Kostas MERETSOLIAS (4x100 m Individual Medley, 4x100 Mixed Individual Medley) Apostolos PAPASTAMOS (200m/400m individual Medley) Andreas VAZAIOS (200 m Individual Medley, 4x100 m Freestyle, 4x100 Individual Medley) Nora DRAKOU (4x100 Mixed Individual Medley) Anna DOUNDOUNAKI (100 m butterfly, 4x100 Mixed Individual Medley) 4x100 m Freestyle Relay - men (Golomeev, Christou, Vazaios, Meladinis) 4x100 m Individual Medley - men (Golomeev, Christou, Vazaios, Meretsolias) 4x100 m Individual Medley - mixed (Christou, Meretsolias, Doudounaki, Drakou) SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING (9) Maria ALZIKOUZI-KOMINEA (Team) Eleni FRAGKAKI (Team) Krystalenia GIALAMA (Team) Penelopi KARAMESIOU (Team) Danai KARIORI (Team) Adriana MISIKEVIC (Team) Evelina PAPAZOGLOU (Duet, Team) Euaggelia PLATANIOTI (Duet, Team) Georgia VASILOPOULOU (Team) TABLE TENNIS (1) Panagiotis GIONIS (Mens's Singles) TAE KWON DO (1) Fenia TZELI (57 kg) TENNIS (2) Stefanos TSITSIPAS (Mens's Singles, Mixed Doubles) Maria SAKKARI (Women's singles, Mixed doubles) TRACK & FIELD (20) Michalis ANASTASAKIS (Hammer Throw) Kostas DOUVALIDIS (110 m Hurdles) Kostas FILIPPIDIS (Pole Vault) Christos FRANTZESKAKIS (Hammer Throw) Emmanouil KARALIS (Pole Vault) Alexandros PAPAMICHAIL (50 km Walk) Miltos TENTOGLOU (Long Jump)| Dimitris TSIAMIS (Triple Jump) Chrysoula ANAGNOSTOPOULOU (Discus Throw) Antigoni DRISBIOTI (20 km Walk) Kyriaki FILTISAKOU (20 km Walk) Nikol KYRIAKOPOULOU (Pole Vault) Eleni POLAK (Pole Vault) Paraskevi PAPACHRISTOU (Triple Jump) Elisabeth PESIRIDOU (100 m Hurdles) Stamatia SKARVELI (Hammer Throw) Rafaela SPANOUDAKI (100 m, 200 m) Katerina STEFANIDI (Pole Vault) Panagiota TSINOPOULOU (20 km Walk) Irini VASILIOU (400 m) WATER POLO (13) NATIONAL TEAM - MEN Stelios ARGYROPOULOS Georgios DERVISIS Giannis FOUNDOULIS Kostas GALANIDIS Dinos GENIDOUNIAS Kostas GIOUVETSIS Marios KAPOTSIS Christodoulos KOLOMVOS Kostas MOURIKIS Alexis PAPANASTASIOU Dimitirs SKOUBAKIS Aggelos VLACHOPOULOS Manos ZERVEDAS WRESTLING (2) Giorikas PILIDIS (65 kg Freestyle) Maria PREVOLARAKI (53 kg) TOTAL ATHLETES: 83

NAME: Jasmin KURTIC POSITION: Midfielder JERSEY NUMBER: 27 BIRTHDAY: 10-January-1989 BIRTH PLACE: Crnomelji, Yugoslavia HEIGHT 1.86 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: 26-May-2012 (Greece – Slovenia 1:1 with Kurtic scoring for Slovenia) PREVIOUS TEAMS: Parma Calcio, SPAL Ferrara, Atalanta Bergamo, ACF Fiorentina, FC Torino, US Sassuolo, FC Varese, FC Palemo, ND Gorica, NK Bela Krajina CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2023 (2-year loan from Parma) SALARY: € ?

My guess is that we received an offer for Warda from another team (Galatasaray?), and the personal problem is just an excuse. We should know for sure in couple days.

And the draw is: F91 Dudelange/Bohemians Dublin - PAOK

We avoided Trabzonspor.

Exactly. Need to avoid Trabzonspor, but with our luck that's who we will end up playing. At least Ajax is not in the draw.

Yes we are pash. I did manage to wake up at 6 am in the morning to watch the game but I fell asleep during the 2nd half and missed the Murg goal. Who schedules these games so early? That's way too early, specially if you go to bad at 2 am the night before. I wasn't going to invest my time to watch the game on tape. Just settled for the highlights. Both goals were nice. Looks like 'B' squad played better than our starters. Here are the highlights:

Turns out the sailing athlete with COVID is Mitakis. His latest test was negative and he is now cleared to travel to Tokyo.

Oliveira 1:0 to start the 2nd half.

I am not sure as the names are not released to public. Even the number of the affected athletes is not certain now. It is now reported that the affected athletes are 2 and the third person is from the technical staff. From what I can deduct 1 athlete is from the sailing team and the other one is from track & field. If I had to make an educated guess, the sailing athlete is either Kokkalanis or Mitakis because they take part in individual events, and the track athlete is Pesiridou, because she is scheduled to travel to Japan alone and and much later than all the other athletes.

Draw for the upcoming season has been pushed back to July 26. The reason given is that most teams don't have a TV contract.

Kurtic is on his way to Thessaloniki to go through the medical tests and sign the contract with PAOK. If all goes as planned he will join the team in Holland.

El Kaddouri sat out today's practices due to minor injury and will probably miss tomorrow's game as well.

Monday (14:00 EEST) is the draw for the 3rd Qualifying Round of Europa Conference Leage. PAOK will be seeded in the draw. Aris and AEK will be seeded as well if they manage to qualify from Qualifying Round 2. Here are our possible opponents: Vitesse Arnheim (Holland) Rubin Kazan (Russia) Kolos Kovalivka (Ukraine) Trabzonspor (Turkey) FC Luzern (Switzerland) And the following winners from the Qualifying Round 2 games: CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria) - FK Liepaja (Latvia) Hajduk Split (Croatia) - FC Tobol Kostanay (Kazakhstan) F91 Dudelange (Luxembourg) - Bohemians Dublin (Ireland) PFC Sochi (Russia) - Kesla FK (Azerbaijan) FC Aberdeen (Scotland) - BK Hacken (Sweden) FK Zalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania) - The New Saints FC (Wales) FC Spartak Trnava (Slovakia - Sepsi OSK (Romania) NK Olimpija Ljubljana (Slovenia) - Birkirkara FC (Malta) Hibernian Edinburgh FC (Scotland) - Santa Coloma FC (Andora) FC Vorskla Poltava (Ukraine) - Kuopio Pallosura (Finland) FC Milsami Orhei (Moldova) - Elfsborg FC (Sweden) Sivasspor (Turkey) - FC Petrocub Hincesti (Moldova) NK Osijek (Croatia) - Pogon Szczecin (Poland) CS Universitatea Craiova (Romania) - KF Laci (Albania) Aarhus GF (Denmark) - Larne FC (Northern Ireland) AEL Limassol (Cyprus) - KS Vlaznia Skoder (Albania FC Vaduz (liechtenstein) - Ujpest FC (Hungary) NK Domzale (Slovenia) - FC Honka Espoo (Finland) FK Vojvodina Novi Sad (Serbia) - Panevezis FK (Lithuania) FK Cukaricki (Serbia) - Sumgayit FK (Azerbaijan) 1. FC Slovacko (Czech Republic) - PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv (Bulgaria) Klaksvik Itrottarfelag (Faroe Island) - Puskas Akademia FC (Hungary)

PAE PAOK announced that the remaining 3 games in Holland will be televised lived and for free on PAOK TV. They also announced that Alexis Spyropoulos will be calling the games.

Kurtic will be signed for 2-year loan. Strangely his contract with Parma ends at the end of the loan, so I don't understand why we did not just buy him. Probably has to do with taxes.

Warda will be back at practices tomorrow. I switched PAOK TV off at half time to do other things and apparently I missed a circus show by the game announcer Stavros Kolkas. Somehow they forgot that the sound was still on and all of the Kolkas's conversations were aired live on the air. During his talk he went on a personal criticism crusade against several PAOK players, including Pereira, Esiti, and Lambrou. He came out on Facebook offering apologies, but the damage has been done. From what I hear he will not be calling the remaining PAOK games on PAOK TV.

Apparently 2 track & field and 1 sailing athlete tested positive for COVID and there is a chance that they might miss the Olympics.

I really don't like bringing all these over 30 years old players. We should be going for younger and more athletic players.

Final score 1:0. Slightly better in second half.

All PAOK player from 1st half replaced by Lucescu with the start of the 2nd half. Zivkovic Z. (46. Paschalakis), Taylor (46. Lyratzis), Varela (46. Mihaj), Michailidis (46. Crespo), Pereyra (46. Rodrigo), Esiti (46. Schwab), El Kaddouri (46.Ninua), Zivkovic A. (46. Murg), Kagawa (46. Vrakas), Lambrou (46. Tzolis), Swiderski (46. Oliveira) Heavy rain from the start of 2nd half making things difficult for both teams.

PSV - PAOK 1:0 halftime PSV clearly better and ready for the upcoming season. PAOK is not. Slow reactions by PAOK players, many careless mistakes. Score could easily be 3:0 if not for Zivkovic saves and crossbar. Wish we had a player such as Zahavi on our team.

1:0 PSV after Zivkovic made 3 great saves.

PAOK is completely unprepared to play in a game like this at this point. PSV all over us.

Apparently we agreed with Parma to loan midfielder Jasmin Kurtic with option to buy. Reports are it's a done deal. In other rumors Swiderski was renewed for 3 more years, but the news comes from Metrosport which I don't trust at all.