Javier Gómez Noya, the only five-time triathlon world champion, revealed this Monday that at the beginning of the opening he will travel to the island of

Cozumel (Mexico)

to adapt to the "extreme heat" that he will find in the Tokyo Olympic Games, where he will look for the medal of gold, the only "plate" missing from his impressive record.

"We will do a first concentration in conditions similar to those that we will find in Tokyo, with the idea of ​​repeating it just before the Games," said the Galician athlete, who recalled that the temperature in the test test that was done in 2019 was of

29 to 30 degrees

, "far more than usual" in a pool heated: "One or two degrees in these conditions it shows a

lot."

"I have already competed in Cozumel, it is a quiet place in the Caribbean, with a lot of heat and humidity. We will hold a first concentration there in April, and depending on how the idea turns out, it is to repeat it before the Games," he insisted during his speech at the Santander Talks de Vigo, coinciding with the inauguration of the

Santander Work Café

, the first in Galicia.

Gómez Noya advanced that he will carry out some training with a wetsuit to "simulate" that sensation of heat, he said he was looking forward to starting to compete to catch "that little point" that the competition gives you, and pointed out that the two World Series events that They will be held in

Yokohama and Leeds

may be "a good test" for the Olympic event.

Mola and Alarza

He assumes that the Tokyo Olympic Games may be his "last chance" to get the Olympic gold medal, and he pointed to the Spanish Mario Mola and Fernando Alarza, the French

Vincent Luis or the Norwegians Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden

as his main rivals. .

"The difference of these Games with respect to others like those in London, where the Brownlee brothers and I were the great dominators, is that now it is much more open. In the 2019 World Cup we already saw that in each test the podium was different", Indian.

In this sense, he stressed that the lack of competitions makes it "more unpredictable" to think who will arrive better in Japan, especially because he does not trust "one hundred percent" of the details that each triathlete uploads from their training on their social networks.

He predicted a "very demanding" fight from the start of the race, so his strategy will be to get out of the water well "positioned" and then, if there is a cut, work to "be able to eliminate many of the good runners and risk it ourselves."

However, he also clarified that his "experience" tells him that "many times" what you have in mind does not happen, that is why he considers it essential to arrive "very strong" to solve any unforeseen event.

"My ideal race would be one

similar to the one that took place in Rio

, where I couldn't be, because there was a 7-8 break from the water, working hard on the bike so as not to give those behind to get hooked," said Ferrol .

He believes that there are "many possibilities" for a Spaniard to get on the podium, but he insisted that in this Olympic event he sees "more candidates" for the medals than in the previous ones.

He advanced that he will travel to Tokyo "a week or ten days" before the Olympic test because he does not want to spend "too long" in the Japanese city.

Five times world champion (2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015), fourth in Beijing 2008 and silver medal in London 2012, Gómez Noya could not compete in Rio 2016 because a month before the appointment he broke his head of the radio during a bike workout.

"The body does not respond the same when you are 25 years old as when you are 37, but the key is to know how to adapt to training and how to recover," said Gómez Noya, who is aware that he needs to "take care of the body a little more" to be at your highest level.

In addition, Gómez Noya assured that his extensive record allows him to face "with great tranquility" what may be his last Olympic career, although he did not rule out "one hundred percent" arriving in Paris in 2024.

"It is not in my plans that the race does not go well, I only think about the medals," he said, before confessing that in his first Olympic appointment in Beijing he did not know how to manage "the pressure" of being the big favorite because he already dominated the calendar world.

"I am seeing many young people doing some marks right now, and the important thing is to be well when you have to be well. I also made that mistake in Beijing, I remember winning absolutely everything in the months of March and April. There you think that your form is still it can improve but then you see that no, that the problems appear, the injuries, "he warned

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