Miltos Tedoglu returned to Greece a day after setting a new long jump record in 2023 with a score of 8.41m, which he scored yesterday (15/2) at a closed meeting in Lieven.

“I’m in good shape. As I said, I can do 8.40 whenever I want. And what’s more, I just stopped my race at 8.41, it was normal, one centimeter higher, it was ironic,” he said in his first statements to “Eleftherios Venizelos”.

It was an insult to me what happened

The “golden” Olympian also referred to the canceled jump in Torun (he made 8.40): “What happened was unacceptable, it was an insult to me and other athletes, and many foreign athletes immediately supported me for this. Well, Greeks, okay… I laughed a lot, after all, everything they wrote and all this mess that happened was very funny. I didn’t expect this and thank you all.”

Asked if shoes make a good athlete, he replied: “Obviously, that’s why we laugh at them. And that’s not all, there are other things they do.”

What did he do when his records were taken away? “I knew it was unfair and I tried to explain it to them in the first place. They searched, didn’t know what was happening to them and which nail was OK and which was not, and in the end they said that this nail in the shoe was forbidden, but I considered it unfair, that’s why I made this post.”

Source: RES-IPE