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Tamas Kasas became immortal
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Three-time Olympic champion water polo player Tamas Kasas became the new member of the Association of Immortal Hungarian Athletes. The inauguration was held with a banquet on Wednesday evening, origo.hu said.
Gyorgy Karpati, President of the association specially greeted five-time Olympic champion gymnast Agnes Keleti among the members, who traveled back from abroad. After that, he reported about General Assembly, where 13 of the 19 voted. Tamas Kasas won the elections by absolute majority, who was the only candidate of the Presidency.
Two-time Olympic champion water polo player Barnabas Steinmetz highlighted he has knew Kasas for three decades since he was a child, because both their fathers were water polo players and their lived their days by the pool.
“We were teammates in the national team and Tamas stood out not only with his game knowledge, but you could always count on him. He was a key figure of one of the brightest era of the Hungarian water polo. Several children took up sport because of him, he is a true role model” – Steinmetz said, and then he brushed up old stories from their common past.