The efforts of SEGAS were not limited to organising athletic meets; they also aimed to rejuvenate athletics in modern Greece. In aid of this, the sports dailies ATHLETISMOS and Athletiki Echo stated that they would offer SEGAS a column in their publications as of March 1951. The turbulent years from 1950 to 1970 did not help the cause of Greek athletics. Both SEGAS and the Hellenic Olympic Committee were concerned with the future of Greek athletics and with the need to respond to the lightning fast developments in international athletics, especially in light of the International Olympic Conference which was to be held in 1954. Despite their best efforts, athletics had been relegated to a position of secondary importance because of political instability and the Greek state's efforts to rebuild the economy after WW II and the traumatic Civil War.

Greece's disappointing performance at the 17^th and 18^th Olympic Games (Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964) flamed discussions and proved that the problem in athletics was multifaceted. The actions of those involved in athletics -officials, General Secretariat of Athletics, Hellenic Olympic Committee, SEGAS, the Federations and others- despite being sincere, were also fragmentary and therefore, ineffective. A law in the early 60s took jurisdiction for matters of sport from the Ministry of Education and put them under the Ministry of the Presidency of the Government. Confusion ensued and there was difficulty in forming a unified policy on sport.

Tokyo 1964. Entrance of the Greek team

Before the 16^th Olympic Games of Melbourne in 1956, SEGAS took necessary, specific measures. Specifically, it proposed creating centres for preparation for the Olympic Games, organising a Pan-Hellenic Inter-Club Championship, improving the facilities of gyms and establishing awards. Furthermore, in light of Greece's respectable showing at the Balkan Games and the European Championships, SEGAS noted that there was a need to create groups of top-notch athletes and to form a special Committee which could guarantee the best possible preparation for them.

Isolated efforts at improvement were rendered useless by red tape and the inability of the state to give institutional and financial support. A publication in the daily Eleftheria on 10 December 1964 set the tone, stating that “…athletics outside schools is going through a deep crisis…” and noted that the athletic community needed to sound the alarm. Athletic organisations and clubs needed to restructure. Those responsible had to coordinate efforts in an attempt to link in-school with non-school athletics as the Deputy Minister of the Presidency in the G. Papandreou government, G. Mylonas, had taken positive measures for the promotion of sport in school.

The first years of the coaches' School. O. Simicek can be seen at the extreme left

Within this social and political scene, SEGAS's activities and initiatives influenced developments in sport despite the fact that some efforts were never completed. It is worth mentioning the plans for a Coaches' School which would have covered a severe deficiency in sport, in that it would have provided the necessary personnel to train athletes properly. There were also plans to organise lectures on the subject of athletics and its importance for youth, to institute awards for new athletes and to form teams who, with film projections and discussions, could inform the public outside Athens on sport and, hopefully, generate greater interest.