Water slalom medals are at home. The celebrations were big, so Jiří Prskavec slept for the whole year
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“We flew through Paris and it escaped quite quickly, because as we have accumulated success in recent days, there was no room for sleep during the celebrations in the Olympic Village. In fact, I didn’t close my eyes properly from the winning race, so I caught up with everything reliably on board and slept all the way, “said the water slalom, who came out of the customs area with his most valuable medal around his neck.
“I was most looking forward to my wife and children. Jiříček will already be asleep, but Mareček may have persevered, so he may want to cuddle with his dad. After all, I was away for a month, which is why I promised to dedicate the whole Monday to my family. On Tuesday, as Czech medalists, we are supposed to visit the Olympic festivals together, so I’m already looking forward to all of us going to Stromovka, “revealed the kayaker, who had no competition in his discipline at this year’s Olympics.
Water slalom skier Jiří Prskavec poses with a gold medal from Tokyo after returning to Prague.
Vlastimil Vacek, Right
But then he was very pleased to find out that his wife Tereza was already waiting for him in the airport hall and his son Marek in the pram, the older Jiří, according to the kayaker, was already actually sleeping at home.
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But he did not order any special dinner from his wife. “Since I don’t cook, I depend on what they prepare for me. He can please me with some food after every success, but I say that what I will do at home, I will have, “explained Prskavec, whose silver canoeist Lukáš Rohan also arrived in the Czech Republic, who left his medal race on Monday.
“I stayed in Tokyo as a training partner and support for Jíra. I could enjoy it completely differently again. When I came to the village with a pancake, I quietly crawled into the room without anyone noticing much, but then in the following days there were big medal harvests, which was celebrated in a big way and it was beautiful how he successfully joined the opening. practically the entire Olympic team, “Rohan said.
“Despite all the covid measures, we managed to celebrate everything perfectly,” added Prskavec. common wish with Lukáš Krpálek to make it our day. We both gave him a golden shine and I’m very happy about it so far, “said Prskavec, who refused that as an Olympic winner he would have no further motivation to wash with wild water.
Water slalom skiers Jiří Prskavec (left) with a gold medal and Lukáš Rohan with a silver medal after returning to Prague from Tokyo.
Vlastimil Vacek, Right
“If you win once, you want it a second time,” he reminded that the next Olympics will be in Paris in three years. it works, so the wonderful results make the beautiful feeling of sport even more intense, even though in Tokyo there was the greatest pressure I had ever experienced in my career, but at the start of the final race I managed to get out of my mind thoughts that would distract me and I focused only on water, “Prskavec admitted.
Both slalom skiers have been friends since childhood. After arriving in Prague, Prskavec also remembered how, together with his fathers, after whom they both have strong boating genes, they went to the swimming pool in Strahov and even then, as children, they played to be on the doubles at the Olympics.
“We all ride alone, but I think the way we grew up around the water and played together from an early age helped us to make it so high in the end,” said the recent Olympic champion.
According to Rohan from an early age, Prskavec had no doubt that he would get to the Olympics one day. “I didn’t go for it from the very beginning and I didn’t even want it. It surprises me all the more that we managed to grab the Olympic medal at one time in one place, “said the canoeist.
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