Slalom canoeist Sideris Tasiadis won the bronze medal in the canoe single at the Olympics in Tokyo.
For the participant in the top-level support program of the Bavarian police, who completed his training with the Dachau riot police, it is already the second Olympic precious metal after silver in Rio 2016.
The 31-year-old might have done even better - if it hadn't been for the darn 19 goal.
Dachau / Tokyo - Tasiadis already had a good feeling when he said goodbye to Tokyo at Dachau Bepo (we reported).
The route there lies for him, he said.
And: "When I'm in a good mood, everything is possible," the chief police officer said at the time.
In the whitewater of the Kasai Canoe Slalom Center he was in a really good mood.
Although the world number one, who lives in Augsburg, uttered a loud scream after his run, he was by no means certain of a medal as third among some outstanding athletes.
When everyone was at the finish, the cheers were comparatively restrained.
“Of course I wanted to reach for gold, but I didn't quite succeed”, Tasiadis told the sports information service, although he probably thought again about the mistake on the decisive upward goal shortly before the goal: “I'm not entirely satisfied with my final run.
There was still something in it. "
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