He achieved great success for Greece at the Paralympic Games Nasos Gavelas as he won the gold medal in the 100m with a time of 11.02″. T11 with driver Ioannis Nyfantopoulos which is the second for our country in Paris.
The athlete and his driver Giannis Nyfantopoulos celebrated this great victory together.
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The Paeaolympic gold medalist in his statements to ERT, after his great success, stated that “I have not understood it yet” and that it is “very beautiful and very heavy. It’s incredible to hear our national anthem throughout this stadium.” “When you’ve worked so hard you have nothing to fear,” he added, among other things.
“So long… I’m not going to talk about myself, I’m going to talk about the people who have helped me and one of them is this fool here who gave his life two months now. As with Mitsos, we gave our heart out last year but he was injured. We came here to show who is the boss of the 100 meters, we didn’t come to lose but to win.”
With tears in his eyes, he said: “Thank God he blessed the gold medal to come. I don’t believe it. Two months with Giannis… I was in a difficult psychological situation, after Dimitris’ injury, no one can imagine how difficult I was. When everyone told me “What happened to Gavela? Are you done? Can’t you run?” No dudes. It’s not that I can’t run, it’s that I want a smile and people to believe it more than twice to win.”
He added that “I’m not alone, Giannis is too. We ran to the end. He told me “listen to me, I’ll run, if you want, fall down and crawl, it hurts, you’ll skin yourself”. And I was like “no man, it’s a shame. Not to be killed, to be killed at the finish and beat them by three centimetres” and it happened”.
Yannis Nyfantopoulos stated that “I am moved and happy for this child, for the effort he made. I had a difficult task because the previous guys who were in my position had left a heavy legacy. All I wanted was for Nasos to cross the finish line first. I promised his father that I will make him scream and cry, as he asked. I hope I did and he is happy for his son. And above all let Nassos enjoy it.”
“We’re going to burn it together,” said Nassos Gavelas addressing Yannis Anifandopoulos, with him adding “let him say, we’re going to burn it. Date in Brussels in the Diamond League. Let’s go celebrate it there with Karalis and Tedoglou because they won’t be alone at OAKA.”
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