«I went to the airport with the bag. When I start to check in I just react. ‘W…, where are the medals?'”, recalls Massú Best and Worst Dressed THE MOST VIEWED

Author: Glamorama Team / December 7, 2021

«When I arrive at the Athens airport I start to check in and everything and then I just react. ‘Weón, where are the medals…?’”, recounted Nicolás Massú in The 5 Commandments.

The former tennis player and current coach attended the program hosted by Martín Cárcamo on Channel 13 with his brother Stefano and recalled a situation with his two gold medals at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

This was the story that Massú told:

“On Sunday I had to play the final and Pato Rodríguez (then his coach. He died in 2020) on Saturday tells me 'you have to go and erase the tournament. Because if you're going to win, there's going to be a lot of euphoria, journalists. Do everything you have to do, but I think it's important that you go delete the tournament and get out of this a bit. Because in one more week you play a grand slam and it's important to take it out, because there's going to be a lot of pressure and it's better to go to Miami to train.

“I told him ‘you’re right. What time do I have the flight?’. 'Very early, eight or nine in the morning'. And I played until I don't know what time. I arrived at the Olympic Village at five in the morning, among the press, I had to do millions of things"

Martín Cárcamo: “Let's put it in context, this is the finished single. In other words, you were breaking the history of world tennis. You have a historical record in the Olympic Games, the only tennis player in history to have a double and single gold medal in the same Olympic Games”

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Nicolás Massú: “Aside from the madness after the game. You have many things to do, anti-doping, the press, millions of things. So I arrived at the Olympic Village at five in the morning and I had to be at the airport at eight. I already had both medals.

“I arrived at the house and we began to celebrate with the few Chileans who were there, the athletes, if there are no people allowed to enter there. We stayed until half past six or seven, I went to pack my bag, I had 45 minutes to rest.

“We went to the massage room downstairs, ten or fifteen people were there, I packed my bag and I wanted to rest for at least 45 minutes or an hour. I grabbed the medals and put them under my pillow so I don't forget them. To make sure.

“I fell asleep, Pato woke me up and I went to the airport with my bag and everything. When I arrive at the Athens airport, I start to check in and everything and then I just react. 'Weon, where are the medals?' And I got a head broth. I swear I stayed but frozen.

“And I started calling, no one answered me, because they were all sleeping. All I wanted was to get on the plane and know that someone was going to take them or that they were there. And before I got on the plane, I think a kinesiologist answered me and Fernando (González), since he was going to New York, took them with me.

“But that's why Fernando tells the story, because he stayed one more day in Athens, he was able to tour the city, he stayed there calmly and I think he left on Tuesday. So I have that excuse, that I didn't sleep and he was able to rest and explore. The madness of everything happened to me ”.