THE Men’s National Polo Team continues unabated its preparation in view of its participation in the Olympic Games of Paris, with its entirety Thodori Vlachou to attend the Media Day organized by KOE!
In the context of the event, the coach of the “blue and white” spoke to sport-fm.gr and Dimitris Papadimas, giving details about how the preparation is going in view of the great challenge, he emphasized that as the days for the start of the Games approach, no one in the team, he thinks about the fatigue (given due to this year’s burdensome schedule), while he added that experience and defense are the two biggest “weapons” of this national team!
In detail what the coach of the national polo team said to sport-fm.gr:
On how the preparations for the Olympics are going: “Our preparation has its problems, we have a serious injury to Constantinos Kakkaris, who is one of our key members, he has been out of the water for twelve days because he has broken his eardrum. But all the other guys are very good. We are in the most difficult part of this preparation, a lot of training, a lot of friendlies, we come from a series of games in Italy, we leave tomorrow for Volos and a series of friendlies with the USA. In the last ten days we will put the final… touches and prepare for our premiere at the Olympic Games”.
On what role fatigue plays and whether it comes to the fore against the backdrop of discrimination: “We tried to manage this fatigue carried by the athletes from the many obligations they had with their teams and the two additional events we had this year, the World and the European. We’ve adjusted our training and preparation to pace them so that they can have their recovery, but also do a new cycle and be fresher afterwards. We hope that what we have planned will work out for us and that we will be correct in our organizational chart. But as the days draw near, no one thinks about fatigue. The goal is so big and the athletes are so committed that they are anxious about when the day will come when we will meet in the Olympic Village and the process of the Olympic Games will begin”.
On what this team’s greatest strength is: “The excitement. The experience. There is a mixture of very experienced players as well as young ones. The experience of the technical staff is not the first time they participate in the Olympic Games. The support of KOE, which in the three years from Tokyo to here, was with us 100%. I think that as a team, competitively, when we are defensively good we cannot lose to anyone, because offensively we have the quality and we find the solutions. I said the most important things, I’m not missing anything. In the competitive part we always focus on our defense, but to get to the competitive part, we need a strong management that will support us and provide us with all the conditions for a good preparation, while we will be able to distribute roles and do the right job, to we listen to the needs of the athletes and to arrive at the Games as properly trained and mentally ready as possible”.
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