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Greysia Polii believes Apriyani Rahayu will bring out her best at the 2024 Paris Olympics / Photo: Apriyani ?ahayu (@r.apriyanig)
Greysia Polii believes Apriyani Rahayu will bring out her best at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The reason is that in this four-yearly event, Apriyani has the status of holding the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
In the previous edition of the Olympics, Apriyani and Greysia successfully made history for Indonesian badminton. They became the first women's doubles in Indonesia to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
However, after Greysia retired, Apriyani still had the potential to make other history. If Apriyani is able to win another gold medal at the Olympics, she will become the first Indonesian badminton player to win two gold medals in two different editions of the Olympics.
Seeing this, Greysia assessed that Apriyani had the capacity to make this history. Moreover, currently the player born in Kendari has achievements that are not too bad with his junior, Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti.
However, the journey was not easy. Apart from the injuries she is facing, Greysia, as the women's doubles mentor at the 2024 Paris Olympics, wants Apriyani to also be able to overcome non-technical matters such as motivation and self-control.
“When I always chat with Apri, it's not because of the burden. But more because of the motivation to beat himself. How to be able to achieve continuously,” said Greysia at the PBSI Cipayung National Training Center, Tuesday (27/2/2024).
“Because it's not easier to seize than to defend. There always has to be consistency, it has to be external, meaning external people have to be able to do it, the expectations are already different for Apriyani,” he continued.
Even so, Greysia believes Apriyani will bring out her best at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Even though he was injured, his former partner was still trying hard to show his best performance.
“So I think he always tries to bring out his best abilities and whatever the results will be at the Olympics, I think that is the ability that he has brought out all of it,” explained Greysia.
“So far, what I have seen and monitored is that he always wants to bring out the best in any condition,” he concluded.
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