Tsitsipas coach slams ‘criminal’ treatment at Tokyo Olympics

Stefanos Tsitsipas coach slams ‘felony’ therapy at Tokyo Olympics

The health coach to Tsitsipas has complained of a horrible general expertise through the Olympics tennis for himself and the Greek workforce.

Christos Fiotakis has spoken angrily concerning the circumstances endured by himself and others surrounding the tennis occasions and their organisation.

To start with, the lodging scenario was totally underwhelming in response to Fiotakis.

“We stayed 3 folks on a 20 sq. metre flat mattress,” he described. “We didn’t even have TV to look at the Video games!

“Whereas the USA and UK and a pair different international locations had PlayStations and big residences with massive home windows, non-public gyms, watt bikes and occasional store lounges.”

Fiotakis additional defined that the language barrier between athlete workers and organisational workers turned an actual downside.

“90% of the organisation personnel didn’t communicate English. So it was such a multitude to get issues sorted.

“Laundry was a multitude; shedding garments and spending hours in line to kind issues
out.”

Worst of all for Fiotakis, his expertise was additional marred by problesm with Covid restrictions and self-isolation.

“The day when Tsitsipas performed the third spherical towards Humbert (twenty seventh July), at two within the morning they contacted me that I used to be in shut contact on my flight from Frankfurt on nineteenth July.

“There have been members from Italy and Germany, plus many extra athletes, on the identical flight.

“I used to be requested to isolate myself, regardless of already being in Japan for 9 days and having 9 unfavorable exams. I needed to do a PCR check so I might go and see Tsitsipas play and I used to be instructed to heat [him] up by way of video name.

“The PCR took ages however got here again unfavorable, lastly at 1pm I used to be instructed that I used to be okay to go to the stadium, however by automobile with an escort and never by bus.

“So I used to be not going to teach Stefanos and comply with the routine and discuss to him earlier than the match.

“I arrived at 2pm, an hour after the beginning of the match, and I used to be accompanied by six well being staff like a felony sitting alone underneath the recent solar.

“As well as, I had not eaten as a result of I used to be in quarantine from 7am. So they didn’t let me have any contact with the remainder of the workforce.”