"The mother is a special woman for everyone. Obviously, the same applies to me. But Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou is a special woman not only for me. It is said by all her friends, acquaintances, newspapers, poets of an earlier era, photographs, televisions."
"Domnitsa came first in everything, with new national records in everything (except for the 100 meters, where she tied). Domnitsa triumphantly soared in the sports scene of Greece. And not only in sports. Her photograph in a political newspaper of the time was accompanied by the caption: "Domnitsa Lanitou, winner of the 100 meters, whose father, according to yesterday's telegrams, was arrested by the English."
"And then, on the afternoon of August 3, 1936, in the qualifying round of the women's 100 meters race, a Greek woman, a Cypriot girl from Limassol, Domnitsa Lanitou, went to the starting blocks, at the Olympic Stadium, the venue of the Olympic Games."
"She will be there in 2004, in the stands of the Olympic Stadium in Athens. As for 2008 in Beijing, who knows? After all, now that these lines are being written, she is advancing, playing and swimming, in her ninetieth year."