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00:00Let's see.
00:01Look what he says.
00:02Let's see what he says.
00:03Nico, Estefano, I send you a big hug.
00:06You are a great friend, a very important person in my life, in my career.
00:10So I always wish you the best, as you know.
00:13They asked me to tell an anecdote.
00:15The only one that can be told publicly is when you lost the medals, Nico, in Athens.
00:21You got in a hurry, you slept with her under the pillow, and the only thing that was left were the medals.
00:27I had to take them.
00:29I should have vaccinated you.
00:31I should have given them to you.
00:33A hug.
00:34There it is.
00:36Fernando, well, you obviously…
00:38You can't complain.
00:39I don't know how many medals he also has.
00:40Yes, but it's very powerful that you saw it in Athens, obviously.
00:43Yes.
00:44Look, we are seeing these photographs, they are incredible.
00:47We will never forget this.
00:48There we are seeing the cover of the newspapers.
00:50And you appear with Fernando when they win the double.
00:53I remember that you told me this, that you didn't sleep at all for the single.
00:58Yes.
00:59Where are you, Estefano?
01:00You are watching it here in Chile.
01:01In Viña.
01:02You are in Viña, I remember that your mother…
01:03No one could travel because it was the Olympic Games, you couldn't travel there.
01:05The issue of accreditation was very complicated, to travel to the Olympic Games.
01:08So we stayed in…
01:09You were watching this at home?
01:10At home.
01:11When…
01:12Well, I went to school and on Friday, we started to see each other in the family, when this started to take off.
01:16Yes, apart from the fact that in the Olympic Games, for example, the president of the federation and a coach went.
01:23Isería.
01:24Isería.
01:25The president of the federation, at that time Andrés Facio, gave his position so that Fernando could go with Horacio de la Peña, who was his coach.
01:32And I could go with Pato Rodríguez.
01:34So each one went with their coach.
01:37It was a good gesture and it was necessary too.
01:39A super noble gesture.
01:40Yes.
01:41Because, in addition, the Olympic Games are lost in order to give them the opportunity that the tennis players have.
01:46Of course.
01:47That is also part of your achievement.
01:48It is also very important that they, for the doubles matches, for example, could have communication, we knew each other.
01:53And then it was difficult for them to travel to Athens, because, imagine, you are playing on a Thursday, you finish at six in the afternoon, you don't know if you are going to win or lose.
02:01And the next day you play early.
02:03I mean, you didn't have time to go to Athens, because it's already 15, 20 hours of travel.
02:07And the next day you are playing.
02:08And what happened with the medals?
02:09Because in the end, you win the doubles.
02:11And what happened when you won the medals?
02:13The thing is, I have an excuse.
02:14González doesn't have it.
02:15Let's see.
02:16Pato Rodríguez, who was a good card that he made.
02:21Because when, on Saturday, I had to play the final on Sunday, he told me, hey, look, you have to go erase the Long Island tournament, which is the week before the US Open tournament in New York.
02:30So I think it's better, because if you win, there's going to be a lot of euphoria, there's going to be a journalist, so he does everything you have to do.
02:37But I think it's important that you go erase the tournament and get out of this a little bit, because in one more week there's going to be a big slam.
02:43And I think it's important to get it out of you because there's going to be a lot of pressure and I think it's better to go to Miami to train.
02:48So I said, yes, yes, you're right.
02:50And what time do I have the flight?
02:52Very early, at 8 or 9 in the morning.
02:54I played until I don't know what time I played.
02:56I arrived at the Olympic stadium at 5 in the morning.
02:58Between the press, I had to do millions of things.
03:00Also, as we finish the context, this is the end of the single.
03:03Of course.
03:05You're breaking history.
03:08Not the history of world tennis.
03:12In fact, I think a lot of people know this, but you have a historic record in the Olympic Games.
03:19You're the only tennis player in history, in history, who has a double and single in the same Olympic Games.
03:26Male.
03:27Yes, the only one. There's no more.
03:30There's no more.
03:31I mean, it could be Federer, it could be, I don't know, Djokovic, it could be anyone.
03:36All the great slams have been won, anyone.
03:38But no one has achieved that.
03:39Of course, and also the madness after the game.
03:41The euphoria.
03:42You have a lot of things to do.
03:44You have the anti-doping, the press, millions of things.
03:47So I arrived at the Olympic Stadium, at home, at 5 in the morning.
03:50I had to be at the airport at 8.
03:52And how many medals did you have at that time, both or did you have one?
03:55No, both, because I had already won the double on Saturday.
03:57No, yes, but you had both in your power.
03:59Yes, possible.
04:00So I got home.
04:01There's smoke coming out, Juan.
04:03Already?
04:04So you had both in your power.
04:06So I got to the Olympic Stadium and there we started to celebrate with the few Chileans who were there, the athletes.
04:11If there were no people, I would be allowed to enter there.
04:14So, I don't know, we were there until 6.30, 7.
04:17I went to do the bag, I had 45 minutes, an hour to rest.
04:21In the Olympic Stadium, for example, when you arrived there, could you get some champagne, drink something?
04:26Or was it a celebration?
04:27What happens is that it all depends on whether there were other athletes competing the next day or not.
04:31You have to be careful.
04:32We were at home with other athletes who have another schedule.
04:35Because we finished tennis and surely the Olympic Games did not end there.
04:39They were still a couple of days.
04:40So you weren't going to throw a party because you were sleeping?
04:42No, so we went to the massage room downstairs, where they attended us.
04:45We were there, I don't know, 10, 15 people.
04:47I did the bag and I wanted to rest for at least 45 minutes, an hour.
04:51So I grabbed the medals and put them under the pillow so that we don't forget.
04:56It's cool, huh?
04:57So, to make sure.
04:58You slept with your head on top of the medals.
05:00Of course. So I fell asleep, the duck woke me up and I went to the airport with the bag and everything.
05:04When I arrived at the Athens airport, I started doing the check-in and everything.
05:08And there I just reacted, where are the medals?
05:11And I got a headache.
05:14Where are they?
05:15Where are they?
05:16I swear, I froze.
05:18And then I started calling, no one answered me because they were all sleeping.
05:21After all the effort, after everything you had to do.
05:24The only thing I wanted was to get on the plane and know that someone was going to take it to me or that they were there.
05:28And before getting on the plane, no one answers me.
05:30I think a kinesiologist and Fernando Comilla New York took it to me.
05:33But Fernando, that's why he tells the story, because he stayed one more day in Athens.
05:37And he was able to tour the city and he stayed there calm.
05:39And I think he left on Tuesday.
05:41So I have that excuse that I didn't sleep and he was able to rest and travel.
05:44Because Horacio probably told him to stay one more day calm because Horacio had come to Chile.
05:48So I don't know.
05:49I think I passed the account, the madness of everything.
05:53How did you see the Olympic Games?
05:56How old were you at that time?
05:57Fourteen.