Greece’s Apostolos Siskos is on a roll right now. At the 2026 Acropolis Open in May, Siskos dropped the #1 time in the world (1:54.12) in the 200 back this year so far and broke an 11-year-old Greek record in the 200 fly (1:56.13). We sat down with the 20-year-old and talked about his approach to racing, training on his own, and his decision to forego coming to Harvard to stay and train in Greece.
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Quick question ; is there a way to get transcripts of these discussions ? No need to spend 30 min to get to the highlights when you have transcripts available…
Watch it on YouTube and you can do a summary with Gemini
I just did it!
Thanks for the tip!
Amazing that people don’t get why some(many/most) people chose not to come to USA/NCAA to train school!
True but Harvard is a tough opportunity to turn down.
Harvard will still accept him, if he wants to go in a few years.
Would they?
Agree but then the headline should have read Harvard, not NCAA
Yeah but it’s Harvard
We understand that any people are ignorant and can can not grasp how training in the USA AND going to university is the best possible scenario.
It is generally due to their small world myopic view and usually out of fear of becoming all they can be.
BUT to each his/her own remembering that poor choices usually result in poor life.
To pass up a Harvard education in order to remain in a third world country speaks for itself.
Wow.
Well, your superior American education has surely taught you that Greece is nowhere near a ‘third world country’.
It is in fact the cradle of western civilization. And pedagogy.
You and Harvard are very welcome for all the work the Greeks have done for literal millenia… that you now profit from.
Congratulations.
Oh you are hilarious today MigBike.
Greece is NOT a third world country.
I don’t think the ‘third-world country’ assertion was intended to relate to Greek history but, rather current economic conditions.
Per Wikipedia listing of countries by GDP, Greece stands at #50, just behind #49 Algeria and one spot ahead of #51 Iran (pre-wr? post-war?).
When adjusting for per capita GDP, Greece stands at #46, just behind #45 Croatia and just ahead of #47 Bahrain.
When attempting a somewhat more objective evaluation of Greece’s status, it depends more on a definition of the term ‘third-world’ than on a memory of Aristotle.
At what level on the Wikipedia chart does the general term, ‘third-world,’ kick in?
Objectively. Without the Greek/European bias likely reflected in the comments here.
We are not the same.
Wow, my son swam at Harvard and even I think this comment is incredibly condescending.
His loss. Man would hold multiple WRs under Bob.
-Hook EM