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MOSCOW (AP)—Wrestling's governing body is preparing for what could be the match of its life, holding a special congress in Moscow to discuss changes to modernize the sport and keep its place in the Olympics. Saturday's meeting of the federation, known by the acronym FILA, comes four months after the IOC executive board recommended that wrestling be dropped from the sports program of the 2020 Olympics.
The Southwest Peloponnese is set to welcome its first international mountain bike race on October 11-13 2013. The “Navarino Bike Festival” will be an ideal way to explore the rich countryside, giving both professional and amateur cyclists another reason to visit the region and experience the diverse landscape.
ATHENS (AP) — Troubled Greek football club AEK Athens is planning to declare bankruptcy and seek voluntary relegation to the country's third division.
Olympiakos beats Asteras 3-1, wins 26th Greek Cup
Written by Demetris NellasATHENS (AP)—Olympiakos won a record 26th Greek Cup when it beat Asteras 3-1 in extra time in a bad-tempered final on Saturday. Djamel Abdoun scored a goal and assisted on another as Olympiakos achieved the league-cup double for a 16th time.
Think of it as gymnastics' version of H-O-R-S-E. Or what gymnastics might look like if the adrenaline junkies at the X Games got ahold of the sport.
Vassilis Spanoulis of Olympiacos Piraeus named Euroleague MVP
Written by ANA-MPALONDON—Vassilis Spanoulis, a professional basketball player for Olympiacos Piraeus, has been named 2012-13 Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Euroleague.
PHOENIX (AP)— Obstacle course runners start on their feet, but eventually end up on their stomachs, sides, even backs at they clamber through mud, over shipping containers, across netting made of mangled ropes. The most mentally strong will choose courses where they have to jump off large platforms into water, run across fire, even crawl through water as live wires zap them from above.
The National Hellenic Invitational Basketball Tournament played April 4-7 at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois. Nearly 40 teams and 300 players competed in three divisions of men,. women, and boys’ high school, including out-of-town men’s teams from Massachusetts, Denver, Milwaukee, Indiana, Buffalo, and Minneapolis. The tourney also featured a boys’ mini-juniors bracket. There was some great talent on display throughout the weekend as many of these players, in the men’s and women’s brackets, are current and former college players, and some played pro ball overseas as well, including in Greece. NHIBT president Phil Bouzeos was most proud that this year, two players who have been competing in the NHIBT’s boys’ high school division landed NCAA Division I scholarships. One is slick sharpshooting and ball-handling wizard Dean Danos, a Northwest Indiana product who will start in his freshmen year at Northern Kentucky University this Fall, and the other is athletic guard Kurt Karis of Glenview, IL, who’ll play at Chicago State.
AEK fans force Greek league game to be abandoned
Written by Demetris NellasATHENS, Greece (AP)—AEK Athens' home game against relegation rival Panthrakikos in the Greek league was abandoned on Sunday after its fans stormed the pitch when the visitors took a 1-0 lead in the 87th minute.
Women's marathon world record-holder Paula Radcliffe voiced the question on many lips: ``There are some very sick people out there, who would do something like this?'' Whoever he, she or they are, the bombers of the Boston Marathon committed a monstrous act. Targeting an activity —running — that is so quintessentially human and so bursting with life made them, by definition, inhuman and anti-life.
