Jorgelina Rimoldi, remembering the dream fulfilled in Sydney

Sydney was a tournament where dreams were fulfilled and many anecdotes were taken. Jorgelina Rimoldi, one of those lions that has an impeccable memory, spoke with AM850.com about those Olympic Games, both what happened inside the court and outside the stadium.

The Olympic Games of that year were exciting. He had not classified Argentina in football, which allowed the other disciplines to be shown, and the Argentine women’s hockey team took advantage of that moment and made history. “We never imagined that this was going to happen. At the beginning it was something that we thought I was going to end there, in Sydney, but it was going from generation to generation, always with the same feeling, to leave Argentina at the top, perspire the shirt, feel it and leave everything inside the court.”Said Jorgelina.

“When the lioness came out it was a very good talk that we had between all and the coaching staff. We felt ready.” After the 3 to 1 victory against Holland, where he told how Luciana Aymar was: “I remember that in the first short corner we had studied, Lucha had to go press and had to be next to me. When I was about to serve I say: ‘Fight, to your position’, He did not give me a ball and suddenly boom, goal of fighting “. Then came the match against China. “We were 1 to 1 to Sole’s goal (García) who put the 2 to 1.remember the former player. With that 2 to 1 they continued advancing, and crossed with New Zealand, who turned the result of the friendly, and thrashed 7 to 1.

The final was not what they expected, but Australia was at the time what would be the Netherlands today. The domain was total, and although the golden medal is the goal, ending second is not bad, taking into account the context. “The goal was always, well involved in everyone’s head, convinced that all we had done was for that moment.” What important when everyone throws to the same side, and the idea is well inside each one.

If there is something that Jorgelina has of those Olympic Games are anecdotes. After the defeat with Spain, they had two days off, and the coaching staff saw them so sad that they let them go from Shopping. “Thing I saw, which I bought. Until a salt shaker, explain to me, why do I want a salt shaker?” Rimoldi commented, and then added that his companions laughed because when they returned from that day, he kept taking things out of the amount he had bought. “I always liked giving gifts”. As little Token exchanged the shirt with Myung-Ok Kimthe captain and carrier of the number 14 of South Korea at that time, the first game they played in the games. “I asked because during that game all I saw was the number, I could never mark it and I didn’t see her face throughout the game.”

16 players, a coaching staff and a giant illusion led this team of Lionesses to get on the Olympic podium for the first time in the history of Argentine grass hockey. Since then, in all the Olympic citations, the Albiceleste flag was flonging among the first three best teams in the world.