PSG star Kylian Mbappe, 22, has announced plans to play the Olympic Games in his native France in 2024. Kylian is already a World Cup winner, having lifted the title in Russia with Les Bleus three years ago.
A little about the topic
Kylian Mbappe was not allowed to compete in Tokyo, but at the next Games he will not accept an answer no and Mbappe has now set his sights on Olympic gold, stating that he cannot pass up the opportunity to represent his country in a unique competition.
What did Kylian Mbappe say?
Kylian Mbappe stated that it was while watching the London 2012 Olympics that he realized the importance of this global competition. Games are the benchmark for sports, the absolute holy grail in which all athletes and women in the world want to compete and experience at least once in their lives.
According to Kyilian Mbappe, this is the time when you can give people the most pleasure, convey emotions, and experience them in return. Being in the Olympic Village, giving, receiving is a unique experience. Kylian went on to explain how watching the London Games in 2012 inspired his dream of one day hosting France at the world’s largest sporting event.
Mbappe said he was probably 13, still very young and remembers the hours leading up to some of the competitions in London. Mbappe was impatient. Before every game of the American basketball superteam, with Kobe Bryant, LeBron James.
Kylian added that he wanted to see Usain Bolt move them to the track and field athletics, 100m, 200m. Mbappe followed many other sports, of course soccer with Neymar’s Brazil, which was beaten by Mexico in the final, and Ney, disappointed, said he wanted to win four years later in Rio, his home country.
According to Mbappe when he told himself he wants to be there too. Mbappe wants to experience the Paris Games. It is a strong inner feeling, as if he was destined to participate in this huge celebration in his city, in his country, a hundred years after the last competition in France.
It is a childhood dream that appears. Kylian Mbappe dreams of going to other sports that he does not have time to see the rest of the year: judo, handball and men’s women’s basketball, 3×3 basketball, volleyball, canoeing, even skateboarding!