The great Greek Olympian Alexandros Nikolaidis passed away

The Olympic champion of taekwondo and deputy spokesman of SYRIZA, Alexandros Nikolaidis, passed away at the age of 42. The great Greek Olympic champion fought for two years with an extremely rare form of cancer. The news of his death was made known through his Facebook account with a shocking text he had written himself.

Nikolaidis had won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Athens and Beijing in the +80 kg category.