The citizens of the biggest Greek port city Pieria have less and less excuses not to work out, because they are finding out the advantages of having a former sportsman for a mayor.

Greece reports 40 swine flu infected people daily and today thier total number reaches 650. Most infected cases are in Attica region, the Ionian Island and on Crete and 310 of them have been abroad one week before visiting the country.

Parkour is an individual sport, which is also known as the “art to run away” from something or someone with maximum speed and effectiveness. Very often parkour is mistaken for free-running but it is not the same. It is not practiced without a reason—in other words, if you building has an elevator, you will use it and not climb from the balconies, because the goal is safe energy, except for being fast and effective, says Stefanos, who is one of the experienced ones in this sport in Thessaloniki.