Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Emmanouela Frroku and her family made the daunting decision to move from Greece to Australia, they did so with nothing to their name. An economic crisis back home forced a fresh start.
They fought and sacrificed to ensure Emma and her siblings had every chance to succeed. “We came with zero,” her mother, Nancy Delinicolis, recalled. Emmanouela Frroku competes.
“We sold everything, we left our families behind and took this big step with three children in a country that was not familiar to us.” So, for Nancy to now see her 16-year-old daughter heading to the Paris Olympics intent on making rhythmic gymnastics history for Australia, she could be forgiven for being overwhelmed by the triumphant culmination of such adversity. And yet, she is not remotely surprised.
“To be honest, me and my husband were always believing she would be an Olympian,” Nancy said. “She had three Olympic-material coaches, and she had it. She just had to be more mature because she was very young, but .
.. she’s like a lion.
“We were very confident, we believed she would do it. That’s why we worked so hard for all these years, but we never gave up, we had to be by her side. “It needs a whole family to get to the Olympics.
It’s not an easy thing. Emmanouela Frroku had visions of competing at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Instead, she will compete in Paris.
“Never give up, anything is possible. Just stay united a.