OR Elizabeth Telsidou He returned with the Silver Medal of the European Championship from Montenegro, with Greek Tzudoka talking about the Olympics, the silver medal and the sequel.
With maturity, self -knowledge and dedication, Elizabeth Telsidou opens her heart and talks about the joys and frustrations of her journey in Judo on the official site of the Federation. Despite the bitter taste left by the Paris organization, she does not put it down – on the contrary, she continues to win medals, proving stability and determination.
At the same time, she talked about the demands of the sport and the power she gives her to be a role model for young girls, and she could not mention the Olympics in Los Angeles.
Her statements
“I haven’t forgotten Paris. It definitely hurt me that I didn’t get a medal. Someone who is an athlete can understand it. Certainly a medal doesn’t make you athlete. Like a victory you don’t make you athlete. It just saddened me that I couldn’t show what I was preparing and all the training I had done and was ready.
And that saddened me. Since then in whatever matches I went to a medal. I’m happy about what I got the second time the European medal. It is very important that I am very stable and anyone who knows Judo I think can understand how difficult it is. However, I have the bitter taste of Paris for sure.
I fought with the German Boutkereit, who was silver in Paris, with the French who is how many times worldwide. With the latter I have been wrong several times together, so now I didn’t want to leave room for them even though they would like it. I left no room, I think and showed it. I won with my value. “
Awith the final and the athlete from whom she suffered the only defeat in the event
“He has climbed the category of -63 pounds. Since the beginning of the year he had not lost a fight.
Plays a weird judo. It is too short, so it has a low center of gravity. She plays very strange, very low and wants a special way to play with her. I once lifted her up to throw her. Okay, I was much more aggressive. After all, I like this judo. This is my style. I really like being aggressive and making nice judo. I like it. She just wants a different technical approach when you fight this athlete.
It saddened me that I didn’t get the gold and we didn’t hear the anthem and raise our flag high (it would be the first Greek Goudoka with gold in a European Women’s Championship). Okay, it doesn’t matter. Next time. Better so we have a little motivation. “
The thoughts of retirement from active action have passed irrevocably and now as he pointed out:
“We continue on to Los Angeles. There are difficulties. I wish we could get there, get there. Thoughts have gone but there are many difficulties. Anyone who makes judo knows it very well. But we will try. We will do our fight to achieve the goal of presence in yet another Olympic tournament. “
To the question of whether she feels weight that she has the whole Greek women’s judo on her back she said:
“I don’t see it like that. I am just a joy to see in a variety of camp or in a seminar, approaching me so many little girls or I get a lot of messages from girls mums and tell me that they have a role model.
It really gives me so much joy, because you know what’s going on: You can get medals, but you are not always a role model. It’s not just medals that make a man and a character. And that makes me very happy to hear the other tell me I want my child to look like. Personally I can’t imagine telling someone to look like my child. I am glad to see so many girls in the sport now and my presence is definitely a role. Certainly”.
For those who know her, they recognize that the tranquility in her voice reflects maturity, inside and outside Tatami, which now has:
“I am very calm and very well. He has also entered my game and will play a role hereafter. Now the future will show. Avantage for me is now the experience. You learn from the races. You correct things and you get better. “