Greece team in Olympics

Greece led the athletes parade at the opening ceremony to the London Games aginst the backdrop of a national economic crisis, having vowed to put their problems behind them. however on Thursday, indoor high jump champion Dimitris Chondrokoukis from Greece team was ruled to have used performance-enhancing drugs and eliminated, dealing a blow to the nation's medal hopes.A day earlier, triple jumper Paraskevi Papachristou was thrown off the team for making a racist comment on Twitter.