In August 1990, Umberto Eco found that the newspapers of the time lacked a lot of meaningless information due to the summer holidays, and he read quality and meaningful reports. Thus, he wrote the phrase “no news in August”. This is the quality and essence of the successes of our champions in August, which arose thanks to personal adversity, patience and endurance of both themselves and their families, the persistence of claiming a dream that in reality does not justify the experience. when, sometimes, the institutions that represent them were absent.

“My parents woke me up at five in the morning for a workout”, “I ate ice cubes to stay thin”, “They said that I don’t get high and I shouldn’t plan a scholarship” are some phrases that said “K” our champions, who in August of this year added more than ten medals to the Greek trophy box. rowers, swimmers as well as athletes they lifted the blue and white in the web of the European Championship and maybe tomorrow more medals will come.

… the cornerstone of these awards are the athletes’ families. Parents were deprived of paying coaches, doctors, nutritionists. Parents kept children in the sport when they wanted to stop, parents rubbed their eyes and gave them courage when they did not climb the platform and when they were not supported by the body.

… the cornerstone of these differences are the families of the protagonists.

August of the awards began with one gold and three silver medals at the European Rowing Championships. They had three golds and one bronze in the junior and youth world. In recent years, rowing has been the strongest… sports card. Every year brings a difference. Behind them is serious planning on the part of the federation and Gianni Postiglione, as some say, a strict but effective coach.

Apostolos Christou returned from Rome with two medals, and Christian Golomeev with one. In both cases, the family was a key pillar in the development of swimmers. The same is true in athletics. There were always sports people next to her, the parents of Ekaterina Ether. In the case of Antigoni Drysbiotis, her family and friends urged her to start walking again at 27, because at 19, frustrated that she was not selected for the 2004 team, she stopped. The big sponsor of her dream was the tsipouradi family. As for Miltos Tedoglu, in addition to the parents, the coaches also played a key role, first Vangelis Papanikos, and then Giorgi Pomaski.

The young age of most champions also gives hope for the Olympic August 2024. From the looks of it, it will also be August with meaningful sports news.