オリンピックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (オリンピックInstagram)「🥇 @giaan.rooney #Repost ・・・ Over 15 years ago I won this Olympic Gold Medal as part of the 4x100m Medley Relay in Athens... for some reason I took it along to my event last night as I am only now starting to realise how interested others are in seeing one... the front features the Goddess Nike, but I had never really thought about what the actual inscription on the back of the medal said, & as it is written in Ancient Greek, no one had been able to decipher it either - until last night! One guest sent a picture to a Professor friend of his who translated it, so for all my fellow Athens 2004 Olympic medallist’s, here is the description! 〰️〰️〰️ ‘O mother of gold-crowned contests, Olympia, queen of truth;’ 〰️〰️〰️ These are the opening lines of Pindar’s Eighth Olympic Ode composed in 460 BC & is part of a larger piece, see below: 〰️〰️〰️ O mother of gold-crowned contests, Olympia, queen of truth; where men that are diviners observing burnt-offerings make trial of Zeus the wielder of white lightnings, whether he hath any word concerning men who seek in their hearts to attain unto great prowess and a breathing-space from toil; for it is given in answer to the reverent prayers of men-- do thou, O tree-clad precinct of Pisa by Alpheos, receive this triumph and the carrying of the crown. 〰️〰️〰️ #proud #olympian #olympics #olympicgoldmedalist #athens2004 #athensolympics 🥇🥇🥇」12月7日 17時54分