Milica Mandic

Milica Mandic is a young Serbian athlete and she trains taekwondo. She is 21 years old. Her family isn't very rich so she had to coordinate trainings with school so she could become something in her life. At the beginning Milica was just an ordinary girl but then she showed her talent on European Championship where she took a silver medal. After that coach started to work with her and pay her more attention. With his help, she was 3rd on World Championship. He started to prepare her for Olympic Games.

She had 2 to 3 trainings on day and most of her time she was tired and exhausted. Her coach was telling her: you must train more than others if you want to become a champion one day. Soon she started to work with TV and different campaigns so people started to recognize her. I remember she was in many newspapers, you could read about her anywhere on the internet. Because of her wish to take Olympic medal, she went to many different camps. In year 2011 she had a camp with Iran. The pressure she was holding was enormous and sometimes she just had bad days. The road to success wasn't brilliant and she failed many times. I was there once when she had a bad day. It was her 3rd training in that day and she wasn't doing it so well. One Iranian boy noticed that and he started to shout at her how she must train harder and that this isn't a right way to become a champion. He told her how he didn't have half as good conditions as she has and still he won bronze on Olympic. She was sad and disappointed and since that she was only focused on training. It was definitely worth it when she took Olympic gold in London this year. She got a flat and money from her country as a price and now her life is much easier.

I adore Milica cause of her determination. She showed me that everything is possible if you work for it strong enough. She had big dreams; she believed in them and she succeeded. That's why she is my idol.