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Chuso García Bragado

prepares for the job market. At 51 years old. He has been running for three decades, always in the elite, world champion already in 1993, but after the Tokyo Games he will start with his thing: podiatry. A consultation awaits you when you have become the first athlete eight times Olympian. «I studied the diploma a long time ago, but after the Rio Games I had to make the adaptation because it had changed to grade. In September I will settle in Lleida and join my job at the Podoactiva company ”, he tells EL MUNDO at the CAR in Sant Cugat, where a thermal camera imitates the heat and humidity that will be found in Sapporo. He wanted to go live in Doha or Orlando to prepare, things for Chuso, but the pandemic forced him to stay home.

How do you get to play eight Olympic Games? Being very stubborn. After the 2008 Beijing Games, when I turned 40, I began to take on challenges and since I am very stubborn .... I went to London 2012, for example, because I wanted to reach the six Manel Estiarte Olympic Games. And I am going to Tokyo 2020 because the last 50 kilometers of history will be held and I could not miss it. In Beijing 2008 it was fourth and in Athens 2004, fifth. Would a podium have changed everything? I don't know, I don't think so. Actually, I have it very assumed. I am sure that I could have hung those two medals, but the cheaters prevented me. On this issue, fortunately justice was served with some athletes, as happened to Ruth Beitia, but in my case it was not like that. He debuted in his twenties in Barcelona 1992. Now he must remember it as a youth party.The atmosphere of the Villa, the Spanish medals, the beach only for athletes ... they were magnificent days. My first Olympic memory, in fact, is arriving by plane just when the inauguration was being held and seeing the fireworks from the taxi that brought me to the CAR of Sant Cugat. In Rio 2016 the entire Spanish delegation applauded him upon his arrival at the dining room of the Villa. It seems difficult to organize a better tribute. Yes, that will be unrepeatable. But because in Japan they won't let us get together so many or crazy. But then because it was so spontaneous. That your colleagues recognize you like this is something that I will take forever. A few years ago, as leader of the Popular Party in the town where he resides, Sant Adrià del Besós, it seemed that his future would be in politics. Have you left it forever? No, no.But after the municipal elections of 2019 [the PP was left without representation] politics fell in my order of priorities. For the municipal elections of 2023 I hope to be useful, although we will have to see how the center-right is reorganized in Catalonia. For a recognized and applauded athlete, politics must be a frankly unpleasant place. For everyone, I think. I understand that in an economic crisis like the one we are experiencing, everything is more difficult and that the tension is much greater depending on which side you are on. If during the pandemic I had governedI understand that in an economic crisis like the one we are experiencing, everything is more difficult and that the tension is much greater depending on which side you are on. If during the pandemic I had governedI understand that in an economic crisis like the one we are experiencing, everything is more difficult and that the tension is much greater depending on which side you are on. If during the pandemic I had governed

Mariano Rajoy

would have hung him from the main pole. To

Isabel Díaz Ayuso

They even gave her her identity card, but she is a tough girl, with very clear convictions, and she has managed to turn the situation around. She wanted to run a marathon when she left the march ... Yes, now, but. .. I started at the Tajamar school [in Madrid] running crosses like everyone else and once I retired I thought to return, but the hip is very just. I would love to go marathons or even ultratrails like the 101 kilometers of Ronda, but I will dedicate myself to cycling or cross-country skiing. Anyway, I will not walk away from athletics, how will I do it? I want to help as a coach and not just walk. That is why I am also moving to Lleida. I am convinced that athletics is an ideal sport for those children of immigrants who need a social ladder.That second generation that is already winning many results and that they will surely win more. Seeing the fashion of 'Nordic walking', it must have the thorn of not popularizing the march. Yes, because I have always believed that many people who were hooked on running it would be better to practice walking. But we have not been able to do it. We have not been able to create a more playful specialty, less marked by the rules, that will help popularize the march. Now with the 'nordic walking' it is shown that it was possible, I suppose that for the march it is already late.less marked by the rules, which will help popularize the march. Now with the 'nordic walking' it is shown that it was possible, I suppose that for the march it is already late.less marked by the rules, which will help popularize the march. Now with the 'nordic walking' it is shown that it was possible, I suppose that for the march it is already late.

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