FLASH QUOTES

Quotes by the Frenchman Clément THOMAS (FRA) after winning the gold medal in the Rowing Beach Sprint (singles) event: Clément THOMAS (FRA) On the final: "The conditions of the race were very difficult, but luckily I made it. The weather was on our side, it made...

Quotes by the French athlete Jessica BERRA and Greek athlete Zoi FITSIOU (GRE) after the women’s final (singles) in Rowing Beach Sprint: Jessica BERRA (FRA): On her feelings about winning the gold medal: “I feel very great. This is the first gold medal for France in the...

Quotes by Greek athlete Christos BONIAS, following his first-place finish in Heat 2 of the 50 m BF Finswiming event.  On his 19.33 time: "I am satisfied, but in the afternoon final I want to swim under 19 seconds. I have done it five times...

Quotes by the Croatian athlete Josip MATEZOVIC (CRO) after his team’s win over Portugal in the Men’s Beach Handball tournament. Josip MATEZOVIC (CRO) On the game: "I think we must have played …  100 times against Portugal in recent years. It was another good game, like...

Quotes by the Greek athletes after their team's win over Morocco in the Men's Beach Handball tournament. Chrysanthos TSANAXIDIS (GRE)  "Fortunately for us, we played good defense and spoiled many Morocco's attacks. Then we scored some important goals and managed to lead the game to...

Quotes by the Greek athlete after her team's win against Portugal in the Women's Beach Handball tournament.  "It was a very important win for our team. Portugal is a very good team that we wanted to face in the European Championships as well, but our...

Quotes by Spanish Beach Tennis athletes Antonio Miguel RAMOS VIERA and Gerard RODRIGUEZ QUEROL after their close win against Théo IRIGARAY and John WOLFF of France II.  Miguel RAMOS VIERA (ESP) On the match: "We were very nervous and almost paid for it. France applied much pressure...

Mattia SPOTO and Diego BOLLETTINARI (ITA ΙΙ) celebrated an easy win to advance to the Semifinals of the Men's Beach Tennis tournament and said after the win against Portugal: "We have not encountered many difficulties so far, but things are going to get tougher...

Italy II team advanced to the Beach Tennis Semifinals, and 21-year-old Veronica CASADEI and 19-year-old Greta GIUSTI (a physical education student) had good reason to celebrate, as it was the goal they had set before the tournament. Here is what they had to say.  Veronica...

Quotes by the Frenchwomen Μagali GARNIER, Julie LABRIT after qualifying for the semi-finals in the Women’s Beach Tennis event: Magali GARNIER (FRA) On the team’s qualification: “We reached the semifinals which was our first big goal in this very good event: On her career: "I've been playing beach...

Quotes by Italian Finswimming athlete Viola MAGAGO, following the capture of the gold medal in the 50 m BF event. On her achievement: "I swam better in the Final than in the Heat. I felt physically and mentally strong, and everything went the way I...

Quotes by Greek athletes Anastasios MYLONAKIS and Ioannis PIPINIAS, who won the gold and silver medal respectively in the Finswimming 100 m SF event.  Anastasios MYLONAKIS (GRE) On his triumph: "I am very happy to make my fellow countrymen proud by winning in a major tournament....

Quotes by Egyptian Beach Handball athlete Mahmoud NOAMAN, after his team beat Croatia (2-1). On the game: "We were very focused on the game. Tomorrow we have to play even better and advance in the tournament as much as we can." 

Quotes by SOFIA KTENA after winning the gold medal in the women’s 50m apnea event in Finswimming Sofia KTENA (GRE) On Greece’s first medal in the event: "I'm happy and proud. I may have been a favorite, but as the ancient Greeks used to say,...

Christopher KOUTROUZA and Andria TSANGARIDOU, the Cyprus I pair in the Beach Tennis Mixed Doubles, played well but could not advance beyond the Round of 16. Andria TSANGARIDOU said: "We did the best we could, but we are not ready yet for such a high-level...

Sabrina LOPEZ GARCIA and Gerard RODRIGUEZ QUEROL are the members of Spain II Beach Tennis team and come from both Soccer and Tennis backgrounds.   LOPEZ GARCIA said: "I had been playing Tennis for many years, also tried Soccer, but Beach Tennis offered me a...

Nicolo BOMBINI and his partner Alice GRANDI, forming San Marino's Pair I in the Beach Tennis Mixed Doubles, advanced to the tournament's quartefinals.  BOMBINI said: "We are in the perfect place, in a beautiful city, and we are having a great time. I used to...

Quotes by the Tunisian athletes, after advancing to the Final in the Women's Rowing Beach Sprint C2x event.  On the Semifinal race: "It was an exhausting race, because of the strong wind, and waves made conditions even more difficult. But our tactics were specific, we showed...