“There is nothing more real than the dream. 09:02 am We reached the top of Greece with Eleftheria and our team,” Marios Giannakou's Instagram post read in reference to Mount Olympus.This was the post of the long distance athlete who informed about the successful completion of, what he described a few days ago, as the most important and beautiful race of his life. He conquered the top of Mount Olympus, carrying on his back, in a specially modified backpack, 22-year-old Eleftheria Tosiou, who has mobility problems.
“There is nothing more real than a dream,” writes the athlete from Drama
in northern Greece, accompanying his post a photo of himself with the
young biology student on his back, the Greek flag in his hand and a wide smile of satisfaction on the faces of both.
When Eleftheria met Marios through one of their common friends, she confided in him that she wants to ascend to Mount Olympus.
Without a second thought, the Drama athlete checked the diary, studied the meteorological forecasts, organized the appropriate support team and made his young friend’s dream come true.
A few days before climbing to the top of Mount Olympus – for the 51st time – Marios, who has successfully given long distance races in the desert, the jungle and Antarctica, had stated to the Athenian-Macedonian Agency News that “all the competitions of the world, the medals, but also the distinctions so far are insignificant compared to this.”
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