SportsEdTV Hello, everyone, and welcome to Sports TV Live. Today, we're talking Taekwando, and we have the honor to have Matea Jilek, who is from Croatia and a multiple Grand Prix winner. She's a grand slam winner. And she just won last week, the European Championships in the minus 67 kilogram weight division. Maria, thank you so much for joining us.
Matea Jelic: Thank you for having me. I'm so happy to talk with you right now.
SETV: You are in your hotel room and ready to compete again tomorrow. So this is the Spanish Open, right?
MJ: Tomorrow is five. Day two. Today was waiting. So now onto the next one. And I'm happy to fight tomorrow.
SETV: Sounds great. So we have to start with the European Championships. You just won the gold medal forever. You will enter the short list of the people that can say that you are European champion. How does it feel? And can you walk us through a little bit about that feeling?
MJ: Yeah, I'm right now, I just like, try to be focused for tomorrow’s fighting, but it feels amazing to be with the greats…so many good fighters and European champions. When I was a kid, I always I always dreamed about going to that stage, where I can go to finals and then give my everything. So I'm just really proud of myself and my coach and I'm so happy.
SETV: So can you walk us through a little bit about your perspective from your European Championships? First fight. Second fight. You know, the challenges you went into the golden round in the semifinals, I think, against the French athlete Waqas. You know, when you're in this type of situations with the biggest competitions, what goes through your head? And can you give us a little insight from your perspective?
