Sophia Malkogeorgou and Evangelia Plataniotis will be the duo that will represent Greece artistic swimming to the Olympic Games of Paris, with the two athletes being at the Media Day organized by KOE and speaking to sport-fm.gr.
After talking about the difficulty of their preparation, which becomes more demanding as the big date approaches, they emphasized that along with impatience there is also anxiety, since the goal is to bring back a good result, while they also talked about the programs they will present in Paris!
Initially, in response to a question about how the preparation is going in view of the great challenge of the Olympics, the Sophia Malkogeorgou answered: “Our preparation is going very well, we have now entered the last month, our training sessions are very demanding, long hours and very difficult, but everything is going well”while regarding her psychology ahead of the big sports appointment she emphasized that: “Our psychology is good. We can’t wait for the Olympics to come and present our programs. Certainly there is also stress and anxiety and impatience. We want to bring a good result back, so there’s definitely some stress.”.
Finally, regarding the program they will present in Paris, the Evangelia Plataniotis he mentioned that: “We will present the “Kites” of Mikis Theodorakis, this is how our Games will start on the first day. Next we have a new music, composed by Nikos Terzis, and we thank him very much for it, on the theme of Yin and Yang. It is a music that really touches us a lot. In general, we believe very much in both programs that we have to present”.
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