MADRID, 28 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish ‘rider’ Queralt Castellet, brand new silver medal at the Beijing 2022 Games, acknowledged that she has not followed the “conventional path” to reach the elite, so “looking back” she wonders “how” she has been able arrive, after enjoying “very little help”, unlike their rivals.
“I’ve gotten here with very little help, unlike my rivals. I’m in the elite and looking back I wonder how I got here. I’ve gotten here without following the conventional path. When I talk to colleagues from other countries they don’t believe it “Confessed Castellet after an Iberdrola act at the Vallehermoso Stadium in Madrid.
His silver in the 2022 Beijing Snowboarding Halfpipe is “the result of really doing what I’m passionate about.” “There are moments when the type of decisions I have made make no sense. I am who I am thanks to the mountains and snowboarding, it has taught me to live and survive and it is where I am happy. It has taught me the best and worst moments of my life,” he said.
“I have always come here taking advantage of opportunities, spending the maximum hours in the snow, that has meant living abroad, entering each competition with the pressure of winning, because I still could not continue with the year, things that athletes from other countries do not do It shouldn’t be like that, I hope that from now on future generations have a path that makes sense,” he asked.
The athlete, who stated that she does not get rid of the medal after “what it cost me to get it”, admitted that she is still not aware of “what this medal means”, the fifth for Spain in a Winter Games. “When I arrived I realized what this medal has moved and meant. Being a minority sport and not having the media coverage all the way to the medal… The contrast is immense,” she said.
Thus, he celebrated that Iberdrola expanded its commitment to equality for women through sport, which already directly benefits around 600,000 athletes. “The appearance of initiatives like this from Ibredrola gives hope that this will change and not be silent until the medal arrives,” she added.
Finally, Castellet lamented the “desolate moment” in Ukraine. “We are all very sad, you realize that we really are very few,” he concluded.