EOE grants 241,748 euros to seven associations for preparing for the Olympics

The plenary session of the Greek Olympic Committee unanimously decided to grant seven sports federations 241,748 euros to cover the costs of preparing for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

The respective sports federations submitted corresponding applications to the EOE Olympic Preparation Committee, which presented them to the plenum for approval.

All of the money made available to the sports federations comes from the Hellenic Olympic Committee’s own revenues and comes from sponsorship and use of the facilities, with no burden on the Greek taxpayer.

The money given for Olympic preparation is as follows

• ECOFNS: 112,345.00 euros and the scholarship concerns the athletes Stefanos Dusko, Antonis Papakonstantinou, Petros Gaidantzis, Evangelia Anastasiadou, Zoe Fitsiu, Milena Kontou, Evangelia Fragou, Thanasis Palaiopanos, Yannis Kalandaridis, Ioanna Asvesta, Dimitris Boukouvala and Zisi Boukouvala
• YOU: 20,303 euros, for the preparation of Karalis Emmanuel, Elizabeth Pesiridou, Tatiana Gusin, Nikolaos Andrikopoulos, Tendoglou Miltiadis, Pantazis Andreas and Karydis Spyridoula
• VAT: 25,000.00 euros for the preparation of Despina Papamichail and Valentini Grammatikopoulou
• EEC: 26,600 euros for the participation of the 3X3 team in a tournament in France and the European Cup in Bratislava
• EOI: 9,750 euros for Ioli Mytilineou, Monica Martini, Angelos Touloupis and Ilias Baliousi
• EOPE: 20,000 euros for the men’s and women’s beach volleyball teams
• ME: 27,750 for the participation of the national team of the ensemble in the World Championship Sofia RG and European Gymnastics WG

Since the beginning of the year, the Hellenic Olympic Committee has made available to the sports federations the sum of 315,566 to cover the expenses for the Olympic preparation, to which the now decided 241,748 euros are added.

“The EOE continues to support Greek sport by covering the costs of our athletes’ Olympic preparation without burdening the state budget as all the money comes from the Greek Olympic Committee’s own income. We have accepted the demands of the Greek Olympic Committee and fulfill them sports federations and we stand by them to offer our athletes the best possible preparation conditions so that we can have a big and strong team at the Paris Olympics.”stressed the President of EOE Spyros Kapralos.