“It has been a hard year, but it has helped me a lot to mature,” confesses the climber in an interview with Europa Press
MADRID, 24 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish climber Aberto Ginés confesses that “now” he goes “every day with a smile to train” despite the fact that 2024, which is about to end, “has been a hard year” for him, in the wake of his seventh position in the final of the Paris Olympic Games, but feeling “among the best in the world again” and having “really looking forward to starting the next season and seeing what happens” if they completely separate the bouldering and of difficulty.
“I really want to do only difficulty… That’s what we’re training now, and if in the end they don’t separate us, we’ll have time to retake the block. But yes, I’m very happy to do only difficulty, which is what I like.” I like it. I arrive at training every day with a smile. Before when I had to do block it was like ‘Damn, again…’ And now I arrive at training every day with a smile,” Ginés remarked during an interview with Europa Press after attending the COE Gala.
The man from Extremadura “really wants” to be able to focus solely on the difficulty specialty. “Above all, if I don’t have to be investing resources and time and desire in a discipline that I wasn’t passionate about and taking time away from doing the one I did like, the one I was good at. Then I want to see what we can do.” achieve,” admitted the athlete from Cáceres.
In addition, he reflected on Paris 2024 and, in general, a demanding course. “It has been a tough year, but I think it has also helped me a lot to mature at a sporting level. In the end with the injury, it has been a quite complicated season and proving to myself that, despite being injured, I could perform well , I could escape from that, try not to think about it and still manage to perform and train well,” argued Ginés.
In this sense, he is happy “above all to be one hundred percent focused on training, competing, performing well again” to feel that he is “among the best in the world again.” “I think it has been very positive for me, and now I have a lot of confidence and a lot of desire to start the next season and see what happens,” added the man from Cáceres.
Looking ahead to 2025, it has already set its objectives. “We have the World Cups, we start in China at the end of April, so we have time. I have been training since September, so we have started the preseason quite earlier than usual. But hey, I think it also gives us a bit of advantage. And then in September the World Championship,” he summarized.
The Olympic gold in Tokyo 2020 made headlines in the previous cycle for making mental health problems associated with elite sport visible. “I think the pressure comes a little bit externally, although it also comes internally… So I don’t know, I don’t want to blame anyone for the death either. I think it’s a little bit of everyone, from me, from my family, from my coach, the journalists, everyone,” he clarified.
“No matter how much you can interview me, you’re not going to say anything that I don’t already know. So, I knew I was the first, I knew I was defending the gold, but well, I guess I had to manage it. Yes, it’s true that Then someone else has that ‘dead’, someone else has already kept it and I hope to get it back soon,” Ginés clarified regarding the loss of his Olympic throne.
Finally, his primary goal for 2025 is to “compete” and feel “good.” “Just by feeling like I did last season again, among the best in the world in terms of difficulty, I think it will be enough and the results will come by themselves,” the Extremadura native warned.