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In 2004 Juice Bolt first came to Greece, running 200m. at the Olympic Games in Athens. In 2007 he ran the first 100th of his career in Rethymno. In 2009 he competed in Thessaloniki as the fastest man of all time and this year he made his vacation in Mykonos. In 2019 he will visit Greece for the fifth time, but this will be done to hear a great “thank you” from the Greeks and give a tremendous boost to the Thessaloniki arena.<\/strong>
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It all started in 2009 when Yuseen Bolt \ncame to run in Thessaloniki 23 days after the world athletics \nchampionship in Berlin where he had made the space performance 9.58 at \n100m. and 19.19 at 200m. World records that are hard to beat. Jamaican \nwould never come to Thessaloniki if the IAAF contact person, Yannis \nNicolaou, did not actually intervene to cancel his participation in the \nShanghai and Daegu meetings to come to Greece.
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Bolt said twice, not to Chinese and Korean, agreeing to come to \nThessaloniki with less than what he would pay to Shanghai and Daegu. He \ncame, ran 19.68 in the 200th, filled the Kaftanzoglio stadium for two \nconsecutive days with a total of 60,000 people and left Greece with the \nthen deputy minister of sport Yannis Ioannidis not to fully fulfill the \nagreement he had with Bolt’s associates.
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This poor image of \nBolt for Greece wants to change Central Macedonia Regional Governor \nApostolos Tzitzikostas, with the support of the deputy mayor of the \nmunicipality of Thessaloniki Giorgos Dimarellos, the president of the \nKafantzoglio Stadium Apostolos Mitinzis and the historical club of \nHermes 1877. Thus began the plan to visit Yusein Bolt again in \nThessaloniki, at a major tracking event to be held in 2019 with him \nbeing the honored person. This is a very big project that will put \nThessaloniki on the world map of the track. In order to do this, \nhowever, the projects at the central stage that Apostolos Mantzitsis has\n asked most of all to replace the athletics track.
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\nIn 2019, the Greek track will be even higher than today, as several new \nchildren will have stitched the current stars, Stephanides, Filippidis, \nPapachristou, Kyriazis and at last the Greek fans will have the \nopportunity, ten years after this terrific world final of track and \nfield , in addition to Bolt, there were still huge athletes such as \nKenenisa Bekele, David Ruizsa, Ezekiel Keboy, Thyssen Gay, Andreas \nThorcyllansen, Emmanuelle Merga, Virgilly Alena, and huge athletes like \nAlison Fili Sonia Richards, Blanka Vlasic, Jelena Isbebeva (4.80m the \nstage record she had made and waiting for Katerina Stephanid to get it),\n Seli An Freser Pryce, Carmelite Jetter, Messer Deftar, Trones Dibampa ,\n Valerie Adams, Britney Rees and many more. Since then, there has never \nbeen such a rehearsal in Greece yet, while only the finals of the \nDavidmig League can be compared.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vision of Apostolos Tzitzikostas and the rest of the “team” … athletics is something that he deserves to be supported by all the Northern Greeks. Only positive ones exist from such initiatives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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