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MINSK, 12 July (BelTA) - Belarusian athletes will perform to the top of their abilities at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, tennis player Max Mirnyi told media, BelTA has learned.

“Everyone will fight till the last drop of sweat. I am sure that they will make every effort to perform to the top of their abilities,” Max Mirnyi noted.

The tennis player confessed that he is very excited because the Olympic Games are the most important event in the career of any athlete. “You never know how many Olympic Games you will get to participate, so you see each of them as the last one in your career. I think every athlete has this feeling of special excitement, responsibility and at the same time, the feeling of a celebration because it is a global event,” he noted.

Max Mirnyi wished the young athletes inner calm and fortitude. “It is only in this state of mind that you can break records,” he said.