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"Looking through the pages of my life you will always find the word gymnastics written next, you will find next to the word happiness, unhappiness, next to the word hope, pain, next to the word recognition and finally next to the word Vasiliki", writes Vasiliki Millousi.
Apply what we've heard, certainly for your own sport, but also for many other sports that at 18, 19, 20 years old, champion must stops that make up the 20 after you have no future
No, and I can not deny
Your own story is just that
Yes, there is no terminated date in our sport, but only when you will feel that it is not your body another go
Three years stopped and why you come back;
Was eating something inside me that I think I have to offer and others that I can do more, only that I knew it until that moment, my life was gymnastics. It was strange conditions
At what age was this;
At my nineteen’s, in a way forced me to stop. It is something that has been pain too much because it was an unwritten law that when you grow up and reaches in some age should you stop and told me: "Thank you for trying and for your offer but you know that you have to stop." Of course I repeat champion by then in national championships
If we see so little strict, but the championship is not necessarily numbers and medals. If you look at the victories which had until nineteen and your victories today when you came back, what would you say were the most important;
First there none relation, I turned and I was another athlete and another human being because I was very young when I stopped, I did not understand what was do
The most important for me; Every time I climb on the podium is possible moment for me but this time in London was something special because it is the stage that will make the Olympics 2012 this year and for me it was a good premonition. The national anthem of Greece has always been unbelievable moment
How does it feel to be faced by countries like Russia, China, U.S. and must come from a country that is too small, which is not a superpower in Gymnastics
Previously I felt little bit ahead of them as though this sounds bad, because confrontation, so though I'd received, but now assessors and people count on me so I don’t thinking at all
You made them can count on; do you think;
Yes, I did, and with my progress and my stay in gymnastics for many years, who know a lot of years and the progress I had, and the success which was later made them count on me
I want to tell me a little about the T-shirt you wear that has seen over the Greek non-profit organization "The Smile of the Child", what exactly is this;
I made a move because I wanted to offer. The Greek non-profit organization "Smile of the Child" is something that touches and interests me. I had no other way to do it, because as you know, money does not have much, so that I can give them and I thought to do that, so with my offer to be able to give children a help
And how do you offer with this t-shirt;
With this shirt, which made the company FREDDY, the largest percentage of sales revenue that we will go for the needs of Greek non-profit organization "Smile of the Child"
I want to go a little bit in bread-winning; Where you have income;
My only income is from the Greek Federation of Gymnastics, which gives me some money, called "Journey"
Is a monthly income; So take it at least every month, this small amount, whatever it is, you get every month;
Unfortunately, pay per long periods
And take them all;
Not a part of them, every time
I want to talk a little about the circumstances where we are today in the gym, where we see the other girls who train, which are also smaller athletes of our national team. Must be round at 10 degrees Celsius in here
There is too cold today. We wish to avoid every time the weather isn’t cold outside, because does not heat inside the gym
Allow to have 10 degrees Celsius and do training at so cold;
No. Does not allow. Normally it is prohibitive. The ideal conditions is around 22 degrees Celsius
Can be injured very seriously so is it;
Yes. And as you can see with such temperatures do not do much training because it is dangerous
You feel stronger than some other athletes who compete in some countries have much better infrastructure, support, and despite everything they have, you manage to win them. At that time you feel stronger;
Yes it is very important. I feel really strong, because we in front of what they have other countries, we have nothing, absolutely nothing, and we are all to be commended for this, we are really strong as Greeks
Writes in your personal website a very nice and touching text and seems to have come from the heart. You say "I missed childhood, I did not played there, paying attention to my diet, I did not feel carefree as other children. Want to tell us a little about it;
I think that's a champions life. Anyone who makes a champion, it passes these things. From an early age I get into a system that I have not really played, I did not know what was game out with friends,
I did not know what it means to get back from school and go to sleep to rest, like the other kids, because I had to leave school to eat something very quickly and go to practice and read over the breaks so I can have time because when you turn the night after the workout you have no courage to read
You wanted and you did; There were times that you felt can not stand, but also had support from your parents and say "Continue"
When are you young age, you depressed. I do not think any child wants to be depressed. No. Then I felt pressure and I thank my coaches and my parents who supported me, pull me and do not let me stop or go away from my goal. Now I will tell you that I will not change it for anything
In your website, write a moving text, and thanks one man, one blue eye, as you say you always looking to the gym to give you strength
Yes. They were the eyes of my dad. Was a man who was always there beside me and wanted so much to do gymnastics, and admired. Now I really think that if he lived would be too happy for me
The Vasiliki's Millousi FREDDY T-Shirt you can buy it here: Vasiliki Millousi Official Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/VasilikiMillousi Freddy Greece: www.facebook.com/freddy.greece Greek non-profit organization "The Smile of the Child": www.hamogelo.gr www.vasilikimillousi.gr