Laura Priego warns Laura Luengo: “In the race, there is no friendship whatsoever”
MADRID, 30 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish athlete Fernando Carro pointed out “being on the podium” as “a goal” of his for this year's Nationale-Nederlanden San Silvestre Vallecana, but he advocated “above all” to be filled with “the magic” of the international event, which this Sunday starting at 7:55 p.m. will put the culmination of 2023 through the streets of Madrid.
“One goal would be to be on the podium, to fight for that bronze, but above all to fill myself with the magic of this race. I prefer to remember the magic of this and see that the Vallecana atmosphere was established in all the houses,” Carro said this time. Saturday during the presentation of the race at the Daoíz y Velarde Municipal Sports Center.
His compatriot Mohamed Katir, present at the event, will be one of the favorites. I love closing the year here in Madrid and it is a pride to run it one more year,” said the Mula athlete before reviewing some of his hobbies. “I discovered poetry in the time of covid. Writing what I feel makes me connect with energy and with myself, and that motivates me to continue training day by day,” he confessed in this regard.
“I give more importance to defeats than to victories because in defeats it is where I connect most with myself, it is where I see what my weaknesses and mistakes are, and then try to correct them,” he added. “If I beat this legend [aludió a Berihu Aregawi]I wouldn't just write a poem, I would write a book,” he finally joked.
Then Mario García Romo from Salamanca spoke. “I have wanted to run this race for many years and be able to enjoy this experience,” he noted. “I still have to learn the circuit, it's my first year,” he admitted. “I knew I had to come here to make my debut in a 10K. The truth is that I want to run it, but not to run a 10,000,” he stressed with a laugh.
In addition, the organizers of the event surprised Tariku Novales by showing a video of the Galician athlete himself singing rap. He reported that he had composed the lyrics “almost four years ago”, during confinement as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, regarding a song that had already become an unofficial song for this 'Sansil' 2023.
In addition, Yago Rojo from Madrid confirmed his full recovery after suffering a stress fracture of the sacrum in 2022. “I was lucky before I was an athlete to start running the San Silvestre in a popular way,” he recalled about his beginnings. “Being from Aluche, winning this race would be a very high satisfaction and very little comparable with other results,” Rojo continued.
Laura Priego, also from Madrid, praised Laura Luengo from Extremadura, her former club partner, but remarked that during the race “there is no friendship whatsoever.” “I think there will be a Spanish woman on the podium and that it will be a good opportunity to repeat Marta Domínguez's good record,” she predicted ahead of the women's international event.
Meanwhile, Laura Luengo herself insisted that “there is no better way to end the year than running the San Silvestre.” Furthermore, she appreciated her rapid growth in her arrival to the elite. “Looking at it from the inside, everything has a reason. This has been my first year as a professional and I decided to dedicate myself to it 100%,” she described.
“I didn't expect to improve so much and so quickly, but in athletics things have work behind them, which I have been able to do with the scholarship at the Joaquín Blume Residence. It has been a year of dedicating myself to this to the fullest and seeing how far could come,” concluded the woman from Extremadura.