How the world sees Greece
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 6 : A member of the Greek team has been expelled from the Rio Games after testing positive for drugs, the country's Olympic Committee has said. The unidentified athlete tested positive for banned substances in a pre-Games test conducted ...
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Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has invited the leaders of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta to a conference aimed at forging an alliance of southern EU countries. The Athens News Agency reported that the conference is set to be held in ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO: An unnamed Greek athlete has tested positive and been expelled from the Rio Games, the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) announced Friday, hours before the Games get underway in Brazil. The Greek competitor's A sample returned positive for a ...
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Lawmakers in Greece on Thursday approved construction of a state-funded mosque near central Athens — a proposal that triggered dissent within the coalition government amid a heated public debate on how to manage the migrant crisis. The proposal, approved ...
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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Nea Apollonia in Greece. The temblor was picked up at 08:17:02 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 23.4104° East, 40.6533° North ...
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Adolf Hitler is reviled for many things like his anti-sementic policy but one contribution that had survived him for posterity is the Olympic torch.
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Cypriot weightlifter Antonis Martasidis and an unnamed Greek competitor have emerged today as the first two athletes sent home from Rio 2016 for doping. Martasidis, who had been due to compete in the men's under 85 kilograms competition, failed a drugs ...
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Hours before the opening ceremony, the Greek Olympic committee has announced the first positive doping test of the Rio Games.
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On the same day that it was announced that Russian swimming had gotten a pass for their previously-suspended athletes to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, a Greek swimmer has been expelled from the Olympic Village for a positive doping test.
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Refugee women queue for goods at the makeshift camp on the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni. AFP / DANIEL MIHAILESCU.
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Sir Philip took a call from his superyacht off Greek island Skorpios. MP Frank Field has met with the Serious Fraud Office, which is considering a criminal investigation over the sale of BHS.
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In the aftermath of the recent failed coup in Turkey and while Ankara and the EU are locked in a dispute over geopolitical concessions, Greek officials say the refugee deal between Turkey and the bloc is being honored by all parties involved, ruling out ...
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Greek sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou led the parade of athletes at the Rio Olympics. Getty Images The 2016 Summer Olympics officially kicked off on Friday night with the opening ceremony in Rio. As has become tradition, the ceremony starts with a ...
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So you're on the East Coast, watching the Opening Ceremony almost live, and you just don't think you can stomach the sanitized celebration of NBC's ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Hours before the opening ceremony, the Greek Olympic committee announced the first positive doping test of the Rio Games. The committee says an unnamed member of the Olympic team failed a doping test in July in Athens. The Greeks say the ...
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… ;The administrative board of the Greek Olympic team in Rio announces … requested the control of all Greek athletes who were going to … the Greek Olympic team has left the Olympic Village." Greece originally …
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Germany was one of the first teams to enter the opening ceremony, much to the delight of one fan in particular. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach -- a 1976 gold medalist in fencing for his native country -- stood and waved with both ...
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Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population to the tune of samba, bossa nova and funk in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In a country of great ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The Latest on the Rio de Janeiro Summer Games opening ceremony (all times local): 8:50 p.m. The parade of nations has started, and as always Greece is leading off. Two-time Olympic sailing medalist Sofia Bekatorou is the flagbearer.
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It's something that all college athletes dream of, signing their first professional contract to keep playing the game they love. That dream has become a reality for former Red Raider star Toddrick Gotcher. He has signed to go play basketball in Greece with ...
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Rio De Janeiro - A member of the Greek team has been expelled from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after testing positive for drugs, the country's Olympic Committee said on Friday. The unidentified competitor's A sample tested positive for banned substances in ...
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ATHENS, Greece — Lawmakers in Greece on Thursday approved construction of a state-funded mosque near central Athens – a proposal that triggered dissent within the coalition government amid a heated public debate on how to manage the migrant crisis.
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… Antonis Martasidis and an unnamed Greek competitor have tested positive for … Olympic Committee said. The unidentified Greek competitor’s A sample tested … on the way back to Greece. He said neither the name …
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Cypriot weightlifter Antonis Martasidis and an unnamed GREEK competitor have tested positive for banned substances and have been expelled from ...
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[ski-ballet]AP Although the Olympic games have ancient roots in Greece, the modern Olympic Games started in 1896 in Athens. And what a wild first few decades it was. While the International Olympic Committee was still new, the organization dipped its toes into lots of odd, one-off events to see what viewers and attendees would be most interested in. Here a few events that are no longer part of the Games, for better or for worse. EQUESTRIAN VAULTING Public Domain According to the American Vaulting Association, horse vaulting — a sport in which riders do pirouettes, handstands, and all sorts of other acrobatic feats on top of a horse’s back — has been around since the Roman games. But it was only in the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp that it got its own modern Olympic event, and even then, only three countries participated: Germany, France, and Sweden. That was the only horse vaulting competition in Olympic history. HORSE LONG JUMPING Public Domain The only horse long jump event took place in the 1900 Olympics in Paris. Most of the horses could reach at least 14 feet, and the winning jump was 20 feet. That's still 9 feet and 4 inches less than the world record for a human long jump, however. PISTOL DUELING Library of Congress Yes, pistol dueling was an Olympic sport. No, they didn’t use real bullets — they were made of wax. Pistol duels debuted in the 1908 London Olympics, and great precautions were taken. In 1908, Popular Mechanics reported that duelers would protect their pistol arms with a heavy guard, and keep their faces behind plate glass. After 1908, Americans took notice and turned pistol dueling into a public sport. The first public exhibition of the sport in the US took place in Carnegie Hall in New York in 1909, where the New York Times said the crowd was excited by the thought of “supposedly fatal results.” SEE THE REST OF THE STORY AT BUSINESS INSIDER
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The roughly 4,000 people who were stranded in GREECE after the EU-Turkey deal in March live in “deplorable conditions,” according to a Human ...
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A member of the Greek team has been expelled from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after testing positive for drugs, the country's Olympic Committee said on Friday. The unidentified competitor's A sample tested positive for banned substances in a pre-Games test ...
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Cypriot weightlifter Antonis Martasidis and an unnamed Greek competitor have tested positive for banned substances and have been expelled from the Rio Olympics, their teams said on Friday. Martasidis tested positive for banned substances in a doping ...
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Young dancers in traditional Greek garb adorn the annual Greek Food Festival of the Dormition of the Mother of God Greek Orthodox Church in Burlington, VT on July 31, the...
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A Greek athlete has been kicked out of the Rio Olympics for failing a drugs test, the Hellenic Olympic Committee has announced. The HOC declined to name the athlete or even say which sport they were from. It said in a statement that the athlete concerned ...
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