All the lights fell on him Milto Tedoglu on the morning of Sunday 03.05, when the Olympic champion in long jump, jumping into 20:30 V European Indoor Championships V Constantinople, is on the highest step of the podium. Thus, he became the first athlete of this sport who managed to win three gold medals in a European organization.

Of course, behind every great athlete there is an important coach, and in the case of Tedoglu, this George Pomaski. A few hours after the victory of his athlete, the coach announced “TO” as “Whenever a child does something that has never been done before, it is always something special. This is more than just a reward for the work we have done.”

Tedoglu’s victory was “convenient” as we saw the athlete jump higher. He himself seemed confident in his victory, but not his coach, who does not hide the fact that he was a little afraid, despite the generally recognized brilliant course of the 25-year-old athlete: “In 7 years, he has done something that has never happened before.” done before. Isn’t it strange that he can do all this? Pomaski says like he can’t believe it before confessing: “Of course I had a feeling of unease.

However, we saw Pomaski celebrating from the stands of the Atakoy stadium in the Turkish capital. According to him, most of the fans were in the stands. Bulgarians and Greeks with a good atmosphere, without fail to emphasize the inevitable: “Okay, there was a tragedy before, I think many were not up to joy.”

What does Miltos Tedoglu’s great victory mean for his coach when it comes at the end of a week when all of Greece was in mourning? Pomaski, like Miltos Tedoglu before him in his statements, remains measured and with a sense of a tragic event: “The tragedy that has happened cannot be compensated, everyone just does their job, at the same time everyone mourns for the child, him, his husband. Everyone draws his own Golgotha.

The trainer disarmingly concludes: “For me, a gold medal is nothing compared to all this, it’s just a victory for personal reasons.”