Christos Franceskakis is preparing for his first race of the year, in the Winter Throwing Cup, which takes place on Sunday in Heraklion, Crete.

For Christos Franceskakis, this event is a continuation of his training.

“The training is going really well. I’m quite tired because we haven’t lowered the intensity at all”, he stressed initially French cookies on his website YOU and he continued: “In Sunday’s game I will essentially be doing practice shots to see where we are. The first big competition of the year will be at the European Throwing Cup in Leiria (9-10/3)”

Due to the nature of the competition, the action is quite limited during the summer months and for this reason the athlete who trains with Kostis Papamarkakis he considers Sunday’s match to be a good opportunity: “We are out of the game for a long time, so on Sunday we will have the opportunity to see some technical things in the shots.”

Franceskakis: “I prepare thinking that I want to be Rome and Paris”

The champion in Chania has in front of him the two big competitions of the summer, where he naturally aims to win. The positive thing is that he is very high on the ranking list, and that relieves him of the stress of the border, both for the European and for Olympics. “I haven’t gone into the year thinking I’m going to chase the limit for them Olympics. I prepare with confidence that I will be Olympics as well as in EM. The European will be an extremely strong competition as our event has particularly good European athletes.”