Another interesting greek site

Influenced by my discussion with my friend K. Tsagkarakis, I decided to published an article on two interesting athletics-related greek sites. And then I realised that there was a greek site that I have been following over the years, in  quest of greek news, but I never wrote about it. I know that most readers of my blog do not care much about greek news, and the fact that the site is in greek makes things more difficult, but I feel that it is only fair to mention a site that has been really active for many years. I am talking about Stivoz.gr.

Contrary to the two other sites I mentioned in that previous post of mine, StivoZ is rather understated. One is greeted by a mostly black page (does this ring a bell?) and one has to scroll to the bottom of the page in order to find the most recent international news accompanied by photos. 

There is also one thing I like in the StivoZ site. They have an entry for records and there under the "jumps" submenu they are presenting the disciplines in the order: long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault. This is the order I learned when I started interesting myself in athletics and only much later I discovered that the commonly accepted order places the vertical jumps before the horizontal. Perhaps the traditional greek order has to do with the fact that the long jump was the only traditionally greek jump. But, the other hand, if this were true why do we adopt the order shot put, discus throw, javelin throw and hammer throw instead of starting with the two "greek" disciplines discus and javelin? Be that as it may, discovering that StivoZ is still using what I consider the greek order was a moment of nostalgia.