After a Segas general meeting, the board said it would stop that "until further notice" while relying on the state to finance Situation after the cuts in 2011 and 2012 budgets for athletics to be revised.
Just eight years after hosting the Olympics in Athens, the government has already stopped funding for the country's elite athletes prepare to compete in the 2012 London Games.
Just eight years after hosting the Olympics in Athens, the government has already stopped funding for the country's elite athletes prepare to compete in the 2012 London Games.
"The federation, under the authority of the General Assembly, unanimously decided to suspend all sporting activity until the decisions of the unfair and selective reduction of funding for the organization in 2011 and 2012 are reviewed by the government," Segas said in a statement.
"The federation calls on sport of the state leadership, and in particular the Minister of Culture, Pavlos Geroulanos, to intervene in the economic collapse and dissolution of the structure of Greek athletics to avoid.
"The federation will be ready to reconsider its position in the coming days for further escalation or de-escalation of decisions, depending on the progress made with regard to this major problem," it added.
The decision means that there is no regional or national competitions will be held and the costs for athletes and coaches will be frozen.
Segas made a similar move in December, the suspension of its operations for 15 days as a warning for the state to ensure that more money would be available to give.
Segas president Vassilis Sevastis said in December that the sports ministry had the funding by 50 percent from 2008 to 2011 and the federation approved budget for 2011 was 7.35 million euros, which "hardly covers basic operating expenses".
He added that under the proposals of the Ministry of Finance, further reductions in 2012 could reach up to 85 percent from those reported for 2011.
Greek athletics in the country has felt economic crisis more than most sports because of its dependence on government funding.
Olympic promises are dependent on donations from the solidarity of the International Olympic Committee the program after the first state cuts in funding at the end of last year.
That was in January by announcing that the sports budget would be reduced by 33 percent for 2011, while the recent disparaging comments made by several top Greek athletes who are training facilities are poor, have exacerbated the problem.
On top of that, the government's decision to 190 million euros for the financing of housing to attract the Mediterranean Games ended in humiliation.
The Games, which initially had to be held in Volos and Larisa in 2013, were away from Greece and assigned to the coastal city of Mersin in Turkey as a result.
