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Reuveny after winning gold: ‘Wanted to do everything to hear Hatikvah’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTom Reuveny says that while others may not have expected to win gold at the Olympics, he always believed in himself.
“It will take me a week to understand this,” he tells the Sports Channel about processing his first-place finish. “I was the dark horse.”
“I wanted to enjoy the crazy experience and do everything to hear Hatikvah,” he adds, referring to Israel’s national anthem.
“I’m happy that we’re hearing Hatikvah for the heroes who fell in the war and the captives in Gaza. This is pride for Israel,” he says.
Reuveny also notes his first-place finish comes 20 years after his coach Gal Friedman won Israel’s first ever Olympic gold medal.
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