“Katya never aimed for Olympic gold.” Volleyball player Antropova’s mother talks about her victory at the Paris Games

Olga Antropova, the mother of Olympic volleyball champion Ekaterina Antropova, told that she never demanded any professional success in sport from her daughter.

The Italian women’s team defeated the USA team in the final of the women’s volleyball tournament at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The Italian team in Paris included former Russian volleyball player Ekaterina Antropova, who changed her nationality last year. In 2017, the athlete was part of the expanded Russian national team (U16) for the European Championship, she moved to Italy six years ago;

— The emotions are completely crazy. Because there was never such a goal, at least for us. The goal was to raise a happy and satisfied child, despite the fact that we have a sports family. And when Olympic gold comes as a bonus at 21, it’s kind of an amazing story. At least my husband and I have a good idea of ​​what the gold of the Games is worth; we are very ambitious people ourselves, but we never had a goal for Katya to become a champion. Maybe she set herself such a goal, but we didn’t. They just wanted her to love volleyball, that’s all. It’s a great happiness when your child does what he loves and achieves such success, “Antropova told the correspondent.

The Olympic Games in the French capital will end on August 11.

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