Leila, Liina and
Lily Luik, are fulfilling their “Trio to Rio” dream as they are set to become
the first set of triplets to compete in the same event at the Olympics Games.
The sisters only
took up running seriously at the age of 24 and will make history this summer
when they represent Estonia at the Olympic games in Rio, Brazil.
“We have been active since childhood. We love
dancing. We love to be active, and this pushed us to professional sports,” Lily
Luik told Reuters.
“We saw … after one
year we had good results in Estonia, and we thought we could achieve something
good also outside of Estonia,” she added, “and to do some big competitions like
European Championships and the Olympic Games.”
When the Luiks
competed in the 2014 European Championships in Zurich, they became the first
triplets to do so in that competition.
To actually take
home a medal
“would be great,”
the sisters told Reuters. “It’s like our dream, and we know that we have to
live in reality. It is very hard to compete against the Kenyan runners. We are
not at the same kind of level as they are now, but in two or three years we can
do that.”
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