Arthur Buedo SportsEdTV: Hello everyone and welcome to SportsEdTV Live. Today, we have the chance to interview Anthony Obame, vice Olympic champion, world champion, double Champion of Africa. An outstanding record. One of the pioneers of African taekwondo. Anthony, it is truly a pleasure to have you with us today.
Anthony Obame: It will be a pleasure and how are you?
AB/SETV: Okay, thanks. You are in the midst of preparing for the Olympic Games. We are going to talk about this competition that has marked your history as a sportsman. Could start by telling about your preparation? Where are you? We are a few days away from the Games. How do you optimize your time? Where do you place yourself in your preparation?
AO: Already, I'm coming out of training. As part of training, the daily life, between two sessions, between eight training sessions a week, and after rubbing shoulders with the best on the planet. All this is also the mental side. All this so that I am in the best conditions for this competition.
AB/SETV: Can you talk about all the points that I think sum up what this quest for the Olympic medal is all about? As you said, it is not a few days or a year of preparation. It's since the last Olympic Games and even before that, years of preparation, years of questioning, evolution, adjustment. We had a rather special year where, precisely, there was a coronavirus where it was completely something different from what we were able to know. How could you, through these events, that were not planned and where we never had a little experience? Could you continue your preparation for the Games? How did you adapt?
AO: Or the question is not even how to adapt? The first question was whether or not to accept this situation. We had to accept it because I have learned over the last few years that we have them. We have to put our energy on things that we can change, not on things that we cannot change. We are forced to adapt to the Dionysian evil year-round or like here, where we have to go to the Games. It is said that everything is stopped, we must adapt. You have to stay at home, find a way to train, find a way to motivate yourself. The International Olympic Committee, which has also supported us in the national Olympic committees, which have also supported us and our countries, is making the effort to support us if we have it if we have nothing on it or to hang on. It indeed is enough, it is quite complicated. Today, the games will take place. What happened, in the preparations simply happened.
