{"id":6058,"date":"2025-04-05T15:12:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/my-dream-of-being-a-flag-bearer-was-ruined-by-my-relationship\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:12:44","slug":"my-dream-of-being-a-flag-bearer-was-ruined-by-my-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/my-dream-of-being-a-flag-bearer-was-ruined-by-my-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dream Of Being A Flag Bearer Was Ruined By My Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"G\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Greek tennis star Maria Sakkari recently expressed her disappointment over the Federation\u2019s decision to exclude her from being a flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The 29-year-old athlete revealed that her relationship led to the reversal of what she described as a career highlight.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a very proud Greek woman, and my biggest dream growing up was to be a flag bearer for my country,\u201d Sakkari said. \u201cWhen they called and told me I\u2019d be alongside Giannis [Antetokounmpo], I thought it was the greatest moment of my career. But then everything fell apart because of my relationship, for political reasons. It hurt me deeply\u2014every athlete deserves that honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n\t\t<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\tFederation decision, Flag Bearer, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greece, Greece news, Greek, Greek athlete, Greek news, Maria Sakkari, olympic games, Paris 2024, relationship controversy, Sports politics, tennis\t<\/div>\n<\/footer><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2025\/04\/05\/maria-sakkari-my-dream-of-being-a-flag-bearer-was-ruined-by-my-relationship\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek tennis star Maria Sakkari recently expressed her disappointment over the Federation\u2019s decision to exclude her from being a flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The 29-year-old athlete revealed that her relationship led to the reversal of what she described as a career highlight. \u201cI\u2019m a very proud Greek &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"My Dream Of Being A Flag Bearer Was Ruined By My Relationship\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/my-dream-of-being-a-flag-bearer-was-ruined-by-my-relationship\/#more-6058\" aria-label=\"Read more about My Dream Of Being A Flag Bearer Was Ruined By My Relationship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Maria-Sakkari-Unit-Cup-Sydney-8-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}