MADRID, 15 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish canoeist Saúl Craviotto acknowledged this Wednesday that Paris 2024 will be expensive and “there will be sparks everywhere”, since the national level is “incredible”, but he confessed that he is already working on it after a necessary vacation.
“There will be competitiveness, luckily or unfortunately in Spain there is a great level, we are 10 people or 11 with an incredible level and we can only go five. The funnel closes and there will be sparks everywhere, but it is part of the An elite sport. You have to win it in the water and if they beat me, and I stay out, congratulate whoever has won me and cheer me up, “said the Catalan.
The five-time Olympic medalists is one of the great protagonists this Wednesday of the Gala 2021 of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), after making history in Tokyo 2020. “It is a day to celebrate, it means celebrating a beautiful moment for us, going back to get together with many after Tokyo, and it is motivating that our work is recognized, “he said.
Craviotto, who won silver in K4 in the Japanese capital, confessed that after the Olympic summer he took a period to rest before starting that fight that he foresees will last to be in the next Olympic event. “The postgame I have taken it easy, I have taken a good vacation, what I needed, especially my mind, because it has been five years of a lot of life against the tide, stones in the road, a pandemic, and I needed to have the Shovel and the canoe in the garage a bit. I miss it already, I’m in the routine again and already thinking about the next thing, in Paris, “he said.
“Saúl wants to be in Paris, no further, don’t ask him for more,” he added with a laugh. The Spanish athletes with the most Olympic medals together with David Cal confessed that in 2022 he is asking for nothing but health. “I do not need anything, I live from what I like, I ask you for health, with which you are falling, that we can remove the mask now,” he finished before the media at the COE Gala.