The mayor of Podgorica, Ivan Vuković, today hosted a reception for athlete Marija Vuković, who achieved great success at the recently concluded Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Vuković presented Marija, who is a member of the Podgorica Athletic Club, with an appropriate gift, a cash prize worth 5.000 euros, and thanked her, as reported by the PG Bureau, for everything she had done for Montenegro, on behalf of everyone who lives in the capital.
"It is a great honor to host our golden Marija Vuković, who made us proud with her fantastic performance at the Olympic Games," said the mayor, adding that the whole of Podgorica watched the finals with special emotion and rejoiced at the results.
"On behalf of the city administration, I promised that we will continue to provide support and certainly that it is far from what, not only Marija, but all the members of the athletics team deserve, but we will certainly do as much as we can and support will not be lacking at any moment" Vuković said.
He emphasized that he hopes that this will not be one of those moments when "in moments of great happiness we all gather and talk about success", but that concrete action will be taken in the coming period.
"There remains a permanent obligation, above all for the people in the Athletic Association, to do what they promised, which was agreed with the Capital two years ago when we provided land for the construction of an athletic stadium, so that people like Maria can in their city, in their country to prepare, not to worry about the worries they are currently worrying about, and then even these extremely good results, we will be better in the coming period", announced the mayor.
Vuković wished Marija luck in the next competitions and stressed that "if we all do our job properly, and she wants it for sure", we might get our first medal in athletics at the Olympics.
According to the PG Bureau, Marija Vuković thanked the mayor for the reception and emphasized that it is a wonderful feeling to return to her country, to see how much support she has and how proud and happy people are actually because of the results she achieved.
"I thank the mayor and the capital of Podgorica for the wonderful reception, wonderful conversation and support they gave me. I hope that this will be a nice collaboration, that we will mutually support and rejoice, that I will continue to jump high and glorify the name of Montenegro in the world of athletics," concluded Vuković.
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