Mitsotakis visits OAKA, says it will become 'the meeting place of championship and amateur sports'

The prime minister, accompanied by Alternate Sports Minister Yiannis Vroutsis, was given a tour of the premises and was briefed by the general manager of OAKA, Konstantinos Halioris, about the projects that have been carried out or are in the implementation stage, while he had the opportunity to talk with athletes who are preparing for the Paris Olympics and Paralympic Games, as well as with their coaches.

"I am particularly happy with the overall effort being made to upgrade all sports infrastructure, 20 years after the 2004 Olympics. It is very encouraging to see our champions express satisfaction with the improvement in training conditions. More actions are underway," Mitsotakis stressed.

"We always listen to the suggestions of our champions regarding the specifications of the facilities and how they should be. But we must not forget that OAKA is basically a mass sports facility. We want even more people. You were telling me 18,000 to 20,000 a day. When, hopefully, we are able to repair the open fields and shape the whole area, I believe that the number will rise even higher," underlined the prime minister.

He added: "And we will put into practice the original vision, which unfortunately got lost somewhere during the crisis years: for OAKA to really be the point of reference and the meeting place of championship and amateur sports."