LONDON, United Kingdom – After these athletes won or lost in their respective events, what did they have to say?
Here are some quotes gathered by AFP after the Olympic Games on Wednesday, August 8:
“It’s insane. It doesn’t feel like it’s real. I told Misty when we got our medals, ‘If we wake up tomorrow and have to play this match, I’m going to be furious,’ because it feels like a dream.”
— Kerri Walsh Jennings after winning a 3rd straight Olympic beach volleyball gold with Misty May-Treanor
“I definitely had good moments but I think the moments that motivated me most were losing on the biggest stage and just never forgetting that feeling.”
— American Allyson Felix, the three-time 200m world champion who finally won Olympic gold after taking silver medals in 2004 and 2008
“People always doubt the champion but I know what I can do so I never doubt myself. This is my favorite event so I am looking forward to it.”
— Olympic sprint king Usain Bolt of Jamaica, after advancing into Thursday’s final of the 200m
“If I knew that, I would have won the game.”
— China’s Zhang Xi after learning Britain’s Prince Harry attended the bronze-medal beach volleyball match she and team-mate Xue Chen lost to Brazilian’s Larissa Franca and Juliana Silva
“If we have a one percent chance to beat them, we will give our best to make it happen.”
— Argentine NBA sharpshooter Carlos Delfino of his country’s chances of beating the star-studded US Dream Team in the Olympic men’s basketball semi-finals
“I want to say to my mom ‘I have done it, mom. I am going to bring back a medal.'”
— Thai boxer Kaeo Pongprayoon after a 16-10 quarter-final win over Bulgaria’s Aleksandar Aleksandrov assured him of at least a bronze medal – Agence France-Presse
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