We have been waiting for this team gold for sixteen years - said Áron Szilágyi, who at the age of 17 was also a member of the 2007 world champion fencing team, after Friday's victory at the World Fencing Championships in Milan.
"I felt at every single World Cup that we could do it.
There were times when we missed a little, a draw, times when we were far from the finals, when we were beaten in the finals, when we won the bronze medal. In the last six years, we have always finished among the best, and I was sure that sooner or later the move would have to come, there would be a day when Szatyi, Csanád and I would fight well, and that would be enough. I'm glad that we were able to wait for this to come together," the three-time Olympic champion told MTI.
The winning strategy
On Thursday, when they could only win the round of 16 against the Turks in a big fight, he said that the main thing in the two-day event was to "survive" the first day. "Yesterday evening, after dinner, our team coach András Decsi challenged us and told us that the performance we performed against the Turks will certainly not be enough against the Japanese either. He said we have to be decisive, dare to do the actions, dominate and to believe
we are a better team than everyone else, and we will assert this today. And we believed that"
- he continued.
Turning to the final against the South Koreans, the four-time World Cup winner before that, he revealed: he asked his teammates not to worry about how many finals they fought against the rival and how they turned out, but to fight in the same way as in the quarter-final against the Japanese, which he they won by twenty points.
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