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8/20/08 11:04 PM | Johan Lindahl
Simon Aspelin's Beijing Olympic silver doubles medal will take pride of place in the Swede's flat once he returns home following a US Open title defence startingin New York next week.
The 34-year-old contested the Games final alongside Thomas Johansson, with the pair losing their title try to Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka.
Aspelin will value his latest trinket as much as his US Open doubles trophy, which he lifted a year ago in New York with Austrian Julian Knowle.
“The Open was pretty special too, but I've gotten a lot more calls over this (the Olympics)”, Aspelin told local media at the ATP event in New Haven, Connecticut. “Everyone wants to see it, so I keep it with me. I'm keeping a close eye on it”.
The Swede has actually been carrying his medal in his pocket in recent days, slowly getting used to the idea that it's actually his. “I've had it with me the whole time. The finalist called the Beijing showdown ”a pretty amazing moment“.
”We'd lost the match a few minutes earlier and then we're having the ceremony. But seeing the flag go up standing next to Federer, that's some pretty nice company“.
He added that the pollution fears in the capital didn't turn out to be breath-taking after all: ”The pollution wasn't that bad but the climate it was always very hot and very humid. That made it very difficult to play“.
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