Aleksandra Mirosław: We are athletes, but at the time of the conflict with soldiers
– That’s what sport is. You can’t win everything. Once I believed in this utopian thought that everything could be won, but in a painful way in 2023 I found out that it could not be done, that sometimes you need to take these few steps backwards, to go ahead later to dismantle – says Aleksandra Mirosław, the only Polish gold medalist from the Olympic games in Paris, where she broke the world record twice. From today also the man of the year “Wprost”.
Szymon Krawiec, Paulina Socha-Jakubowska: What has changed since that gold?
Aleksandra Mirosław: Which?
This Olympic, the most important.
On the one hand, a lot has changed. On the other, I still try to stay the same Ola that I was before the games. My popularity and recognition here in the country, in public places, have definitely increased. This is really very nice. If someone told me when I won my first world championships in 2018 that I would come to the stage where I am now and that I would receive the statuette of the man of the year, I would probably not believe. My dreams did not reach that far.
What are you most proud of? We no longer ask here about sports achievements and subsequent medals that go to the collection, but about the work you have done.
Probably the most because I still have the feeling that I’m developing. As a man, as a player, which, in fact, after so many years of his career, because it is already the 18th year when I climb and take part in the competition, he is not so obvious.
Sometimes it is hard. But looking at it in retrospect – there are all these medals, but they are also lost, which were valuable lessons, something that developed me.
Also thanks to this I am what I am. But I also know that if we met in a year, in two, five or in 10 years, I will be a completely different man.
The gold medal will not become a burden?
