(22 Jul 2024)
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Roissy-en-France, France – 22 July 2024
1. Various of Italian rowing delegation at accreditation desk
2. Various of Italian rowers Leonardo Pietra Caprina and Vincenzo Abbagnale posing for photo at Paris Olympic Games stand
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Vincenzo Abbagnale, Italian rower:
“We’ve arrived in Paris and we are (have) good preparation. We hope for the better performance that we can. I hope for our best performance.”
4. Various of Ukrainian rower taking baggage from belt
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Anastasiya Kozhenkova, Ukrainian rower:
“First of all, we are very grateful to our armed forces and those people who are now at home. I wanted to cheer them up a little, so that they would be distracted from all the troubles. I understand that it is very difficult and almost impossible at the moment, but I wanted the victory here to be the same as the victory at home.”
6. Various of Finnish delegation arriving, speaking to Olympic volunteers
7. Various of Lithuanian delegation arriving, collecting baggage
STORYLINE:
With the start of the Olympics just days away, athletes from around the world are touching down in Paris ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony.
All of them have high expectations and are hoping to perform at their best.
“We’ve arrived in Paris and we are (have) good preparation. We hope for the better performance that we can. I hope for our best performance,” Vincenzo Abbagnale, Italian rower, said at the arrivals terminal of Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Ukrainian athletes are also present despite the backdrop of war in their homeland, they hope their performances will help boost morale back home.
“First of all, we are very grateful to our armed forces and those people who are now at home. I wanted to cheer them up a little, so that they would be distracted from all the troubles. I understand that it is very difficult and almost impossible at the moment, but I wanted the victory here to be the same as the victory at home,” Anastasiya Kozhenkova, a Ukrainian rower, told the AP, waiting for her baggage to pop up at the belt.
AP Video shot by Tanya Titova
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