A 19-year-old,
shooting gold medalist Anna Korakaki, who won two of Greece’s six
medals this month, gold in the 25- metre pistol event and a bronze in
the 10 metre air pistol, said she was not invited to the ceremony due
to her recent criticisms over state support for athletes. "The
truth is I was never invited by anyone and any efforts trying to
falsify this truth, in order to justify their unjustifiable
'mistake', is sad and undignified," said Korakaki in a statement
on her facebook account socially.
She added "The
information I'm on holiday is just a good defense for those who
decided I should not be come.
"It has made
me awfully upset that nobody informed me or even asked me, as had
been decided, and this comes on top of dozens of related incidents
and behavior I've been faced with," she added.
She even said,
"It's like 'Korakaki doesn't exist, didn't go to Rio and didn't
achieve anything, she's just a phantom." Korakaki is in France
but said she was informed the ceremony would take place in early
September and that she would be informed if any date changes were
made.
The government
was left uncomfortable when the honor event led by Greece President
Prokopis Pavlopoulos went ahead without Korakaki ‘the gold
medalist’.
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