Photograph from: From Sport and the Australian Greek, Dr. Steve Georgakis Standard Publishing House Pty Ltd Rozelle, Sydney. 2000. Olympic Year 2000: Dr. Steve Georgakis with original members, Nick Marcells, Bill Psaltis...
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From Sport and the Australian Greek, Dr. Steve Georgakis Standard Publishing House Pty Ltd Rozelle, Sydney. 2000. Note the Clubs motto - which literally translated means - Healthy mind..and..Healthy body. Original copy s...
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Andrew Simos, is the son of Con and Maria (nee, Levounes) Simos. He has two sisters, Irene and Katina. Andrew is an Olympic standard volleyball player, and has had an international career. In the year 2000, he ws chosen...
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As notified in a previous entry, and re-iterated in less detail at the conclusion of this entry - in the year 2000, the Greek - Australian Sports Hall of Fame was inaugurated. Many athletes of the original 166 are obviou...
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As notified in a previous entry, and re-iterated in less detail at the conclusion of this entry - in the year 2000, the Greek - Australian Sports Hall of Fame was inaugurated. Many athletes of the original 166 are obviou...
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Artist: Robert Owen (Australia, b. 1937). Artist Robert Owen has created a landscape that links the Homebush Bay site to the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, and celebrates the Greek origins of many Australians. Within a...
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THE GRECIAN MARATHON RUNNER Long distance running is as old as the Ancient Olympics. The marathon in particular evokes the traditions and glories of Ancient Greece and is run by athletes with incredible stamina and endur...
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As notified in a previous entry, and re-iterated in less detail at the conclusion of this entry - in the year 2000, the Greek - Australian Sports Hall of Fame was inaugurated. Many athletes of the original 166 are obviou...
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As notified in a previous entry, and re-iterated in less detail at the conclusion of this entry - in the year 2000, the Greek - Australian Sports Hall of Fame was inaugurated. Many athletes of the original 166 are obviou...
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As notified in a previous entry, and re-iterated in less detail at the conclusion of this entry - in the year 2000, the Greek - Australian Sports Hall of Fame was inaugurated. Many athletes of the original 166 are obviou...
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As notified in a previous entry, and re-iterated in less detail at the conclusion of this entry - in the year 2000, the Greek - Australian Sports Hall of Fame was inaugurated. Many athletes of the original 166 are obviou...
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As notified in a previous entry, and re-iterated in less detail at the conclusion of this entry - in the year 2000, the Greek -Australian Sports Hall of Fame was inaugurated. Many athletes of the original 166 are obvious...
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As notified in a previous entry, and reiterated in less detail at the conclusion of this entry - in the year 2000, the Greek -Australian Sports Hall of Fame was inaugurated. Many athletes of the original 166 are obviousl...
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The great pole vaulter was born in Oakland, Calif., in 1909, son of a humble carpenter who had immigrated to America from the Greek island of Kythera. Clentzos took up pole vaulting in high school in the 1920s, then perf...
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ATHENS -- With his big, thick right hand, Pete Clentzos slaps his belly. The hand bounces off. "The belly's solid," he says He's right. At 95, Clentzos still has an athlete's body. He's sitting on the roof of the Plaka H...
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Jim Poulos, QC, selected as a torchbearer for the Athens Olympics Torch Relay on June 4, 2004. Carrying a flame for Athens The Olympic Torch Relay is set to roll through sections of the Eastern Suburbs [of Sydney] on Fri...
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Do any Kytherians have photographs of "Kytherians carrying the Olympic torch in the Torch Relay, in Sydney; and in other parts of the world, June 2004"? Please post to kythera-family. It was a day when Sydneysiders stopp...
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"Language barriers and long working hours restricted social contact between many early Greek immigrants and other Australians. A few, however, broke through such barriers by their sporting achievements. Theodoros Minoukh...
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In the era from the 1890's to 1918.... "...several Greeks shone...in boxing. Kharalambos Stathakis (pictured above) is said to have won a middleweight title on the western goldfields about 1912, and two descendants of th...
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As notified in a previous entry, and re-iterated in less detail at the conclusion of this entry - in the year 2000, the Greek -Australian Sports Hall of Fame was inaugurated. Many athletes of the original 166 are obvious...
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