MADRID, 4 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish athlete Ana Peleteiro has assured that achieving bronze in the triple jump at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow, the first international success after becoming a mother, has been “like winning the first medal again”, and has warned that He is going to “opt for everything” at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, an event for which he has asked for “health”, since “the work and sacrifice” are at his expense.
“It’s like winning the first medal again. I remember my first absolute international medal, which was in Birmingham, in a World Cup too but at a much lower level, and I remember the adrenaline I felt at that moment. It’s a bit the same but feeling a lot more accompanied,” she said upon her arrival in Madrid this Monday with the rest of the Spanish team.
In addition, he confessed that one “never” gets “used” to living moments like this. “We all want results and when things go well, it’s the best,” she said, analyzing the coincidence that it was also in the Scottish city where she was proclaimed European champion. “I’m going to have to talk to World Athletics so they can hold all the championships there, because it looks like March 3 and Glasgow go hand in hand and everything goes well for me. Let’s see if they organize more things there,” he joked.
Regarding the Paris Olympic Games, the Galician assured that “you have to opt for everything.” “The year in Tokyo, on an indoor track I jumped 51, so I have shown that I am in good shape. I always say: give me health, that the work and sacrifice is on me. I start the summer season with a lot of motivation and thinking that I don’t want to leave anything out. I want to sweat every last drop to get to Paris and Rome in the best possible way,” he said.
Now, Peleteiro will have “a few days of rest” before continuing to prepare for the great challenges of this summer, the European Championship and, above all, the Games. “It won’t be a complete break, but it will allow us to go home and enjoy the family. But I’m already thinking about the summer, which at the end of the day is the most important thing. It’s a ‘stop’ in the long road that “We have until Paris.”
“I don’t think I’ll stop completely, it would be throwing away a very good state of form that I’m in. I’ll have an Albariño and a Mencía to celebrate, but then I’ll go run for at least 15 minutes, not that long either,” he said. between laughs.
“Now I have a much bigger team, my federation… When you walk hand in hand with people who love you, you feel that. I felt the warmth of the team. In 2018, when I went to Birmingham, there was not the team that there is now. There is a very good atmosphere and that helps us all reach the goal faster or, if there is a bad result, it is forgotten as soon as possible,” he stressed about the differences in the Spanish team in recent years.
In another vein, Peleteiro showed his happiness for Fátima Diame, who also won a bronze in length. “I picked up my medal and stayed to watch the test, of course. I hate watching the tests of people I love from the stands, because I had a terrible time, and it made us suffer a lot, but he’s been there for a long time, caressing the medals. “He deserved to get his ‘chapita’,” he said.
Finally, he confessed that María Vicente’s serious injury “was a cold shower, the first day and first thing in the morning.” “I turned on the TV, saw it live and I was a little shocked. It always affects you a little mentally; since I didn’t compete on Friday, it didn’t affect me in my competition, but I did have to call my therapist to do a little therapy, I’m very apprehensive,” she revealed.
“I sent her a message of encouragement. She is very young; an Achilles injury now is not like 20 years ago, which was much more problematic. She may be on the track sooner than we think and what she herself expects. I am bump into her,” he concluded.