MADRID, 30 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Jesús Montes, coach of the Spanish athlete Ignacio Fontes, was very critical of his pupil’s absence from the selection list for the Oregon World Cup next month despite having the minimum and having finished ahead of Adel Mechaal in the 1,500 meters of the Spanish Championship last weekend.
“Disappointment, sadness, discouragement, embarrassment, I don’t know how to qualify him. Ignacio Fontes was out of the team having finished third and with a world minimum and he came in fourth, who also went in two tests, losing against Ignacio,” Montes underlined in his official Twitter account. ‘Twitter’.
The Andalusian middle-distance runner finished third last Saturday in the 1,500 meter test behind Mario García Romo and Mohamed Katir, but ahead of Adel Mechaal, whom he surpassed with solvency. However, the coach José Peiró has not included him in the World Cup list and has opted for the other three athletes, with Mechaal also doubling in the 5,000.