Tag: Greece
-
Greece is European Champion in Deaf Women’s Basketball
The team of coach Athina Zerva made it to the final easily and won the trophy with relatively equal ease. The score in the 10-minute periods went as follows: 14-13, 26-22, 37-30, 52-41. Meanwhile the Greek Deaf Men’s Basketball team finished fifth after beating Poland 69-54 in the classification game. (greece.greekreporter.com)
-
Athens Cathedral Reopens After 7-Year Restoration
The reopening ceremony was attended, among other officials, by the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs Nikos Filis and Supreme Court President Vassiliki Thanou, who saw the interior of the church and attended the great vespers by Hieronymus Archbishop of Athens. The ceremony started at 7 p.m. with…
-
Olympics 2016: Sofia Bekatorou First Woman Selected as Standard-Bearer
The 39-year-old Greek sailing champion has taken part in three previous Olympics starting with the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and she was a bronze medalist in 2008 in Beijing while in Athens 2004 she took gold. In Rio Bekatorou will compete in Class Nacra 17 together with Michael Pateniotis. According to CNN Greece Bekatorou said: “It is…
-
Socceroos beat Greece 1-0
A 1-0 win for the Socceroos over Greece at ANZ Stadium last night came courtesy of the last kick of the game, Mathew Leckie’s turn and shot from the edge of the box earning Ange Postecoglou’s side the most last-gasp of victories. If either side deserved to shade a fixture that was occasionally physical and…