Fotini Papaleonidopoulou is now 30 years old, she grew up in SOS children’s villages and is a brilliant scientist. After her student years, she studied at the Department of Biology of the University of Patras and in 2017 won a scholarship to the Watson University School of Biological Sciences at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in the USA. Now, she is doing her PhD in molecular biology at the Francis Crick Institute.
On the occasion of the opening of the Olympic Games tonight in Paris, Fotini Papaleonidopoulou was a guest on the ERT show “Epilogue” and referred both to her life today and to her experience at the 2004 Olympic Games.
Speaking to Apostolos Maggiriadis, she stated that she felt particularly lucky to have been chosen at the time, at the age of only 10, without realizing exactly what she was going to do since she was a child.
“We had done some rehearsals, but I didn’t know that this picture would turn the whole world”, he said characteristically.
Continuing her statements, she said: “What has remained indelible to me, when we were talking about how important is the value of effort and essentially personal improvement, because this is what athletes show through their effort. Some make it at 20, some at 35, and they get the gold medal or the silver medal and that’s a very important role model for us. I want and hope to be able to carry these values through my own life.”
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