Rasmus Mägi: The first feeling was definitely relief OM2024

“When I crossed the finish line the first emotion was of course relief, but then I already had a mutter in the back of my neck that there was actually one more race left and I definitely wouldn’t have done it any easier or with a different focus,” Maggi told Estonian reporters after the semi-final.

“I think in a final there are fewer extraneous thoughts or worries. Semi-finals are always difficult – on the one hand you know how important they are, on the other hand you try to close yourself off and everything depends on the struggle for survival unfortunately, but I am once again very happy that I once again made things work in my favour.”

The final will be held on Friday and before that, Magee wants to rest and recharge. “It would be wise to take a day off tomorrow (Thursday – ed.). It depends on when the game is on Friday, but maybe a light morning practice or warm-up on Friday morning. A day of rest is needed in between”.

“In fact, since the competitions were held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, we changed our training week to take into account the schedule of the training camp in Africa in mid-February,” Magee continued. “Since I was used to a more regular training, it was a big change in some ways, but the purpose of this change was precisely that as long as you don’t have to go all out in the preliminaries and semi-finals, you have good strength. “And I think this change is reasonable. “

The Estonian record holder is in her third Olympic final and on Friday she will compete against the likes of Tokyo medallists Carsten Warholm, Rai Benjamin and Alison dos Santos.

“In the tough semi-final, dos Santos probably blamed me a little bit for it again, but he didn’t make a very convincing impression. But I wanted to run in such a way that I couldn’t jump over my shadow myself, but because I knew where that shadow was, we wanted very much to get close to it,” added Mägi.