MADRID, 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish triathlete Kini Carrasco is clear that “whether he is in the Paris Paralympic Games or not” he will leave “the triathlon elite” at 58 years old, although, given that he loves “challenges”, he believes he could be in the event. the French capital, while he proudly celebrates that this weekend, at the Test Event in Malaga, he will run his hundredth international test because “it will go down in history to be the first” to do so.
“I have thought about hanging up the trisuit partially after the Games, whether it is there or not. I am going to stop fighting for points and to see what classification I have in the ranking. I will leave the elite of the Paralympic triathlon, but I will continue doing Age Groups if God wants at least until the age of 80,” Carrasco declared in an interview facilitated by FETRI.
The Spanish triathlete assures that his main goal now is to compete in the Games because he “loves challenges.” If he achieves it, Paralympic as an athlete in Seoul’88, Barcelona’92 and Sydney 2000, he would return to the event 24 years later. “It’s something that I don’t think has ever been done and I hope I can achieve it. If not, I’ll stay trying, but for now we’re on the right track and I’m in fifth position in the ranking,” he said.
For this reason, the Paralympic triathlete from Extremadura will fight “until the last day” to achieve it because he believes it is “the best way” to end his “high performance” sports career after 37 years.
But first, Carrasco has a special appointment this weekend with the Test Event that Malaga will host where he will reach 100 caps, being the first in history to achieve this.
“I am very excited, it is something else that I am adding, another notch in my revolver. It is the last test and I come to enjoy in a beautiful city with a very nice circuit and in which the public will surely push us a lot,” he added, He has not “prepared anything special” nor does he know if they will do “something” for this figure. “I simply want to enjoy it, being the first will go down in history,” he stressed.
On January 30, 1985, Kini Carrasco suffered a motorcycle accident in which he lost his left arm and had to leave basketball to switch to athletics. “It was something very tragic, but through sport I turned it into a great virtue. I would not have been the same without the accident, I would be a completely different person. Furthermore, the desire to improve made me relearn how to tie my shoes and other things.” thing and all this helped me get out of a dead end loop,” he concluded.