“It was the perfect closing, we’re all … beasts,” mentioned Miltos Tedoglou, within the blended zone, smiling for as soon as, with the title of three-time European champion adorning his resume. The Greek Olympian loved the Rome closing greater than every other race. “Yeah, no dialogue. Simply kidding, he was the perfect…”.
The primary who rushed to congratulate him, as quickly as they noticed him escape from the embrace of Giorgos Pomaski and his relations, had been three legends of world sports activities: the Armenian – with Greek roots – holder of the European file with 8.86 m from distant 1987 Robert Emian, Cuban boxing star Ivan Pedroso, and Stefka Kostandinova, the best top athlete in historical past. “After they see you, you possibly can’t assist however soar,” Tedoglou commented.
The 26-year-old champion hopes to defend his Olympic title in a couple of weeks in Paris. “That is my largest objective,” he confessed to the state tv digicam. “The circumstances might be ideally suited there as properly. I will be fantastic, I do know it. This 12 months goes nice.”
Tedoglou believes he would have carried out even higher if the runway was not elevated. “I am stronger within the so-called exhausting levels,” he mentioned. “However I improved, raised my private file by 5cm and gave them away. All kidding apart, I am very robust! However plainly some curse is chasing me, in order that I do not break the Panhellenic file. Twice I jumped 8.65 m, these items do not occur…”.
The pan-Hellenic file belongs to Louis Tsatoumas, with a soar of 8.66 m, from the 2007 “Papaflessia” in Kalamata.
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