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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Sole Cypriot medalist sets sail for Rio

Fourth-century historian Eusebius records that in 180 BC, an athlete from Salamis, a Greek city-state in eastern Cyprus, won the Olympic stadion race -- a 600-foot (180-metre) naked sprint. "Pavlos actually proved that it's possible," said Olga Piperidou ...


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