JAVIER SÁNCHEZ
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Updated on Friday, 30July2021-02: 38
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In June Yulimar Rojas approaches the triple jump world record again
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A Facebook message changed his life. When she was still a teenager, at 19 years old, with everything to win or everything to lose,
Yulimar Rojas
(Caracas, 1995) had a hunch: she could write to the best coach in the world,
Iván Pedroso
, a jumping myth, and ask her if she wanted to work with her. They had never spoken before. They had never crossed paths before. "I didn't even know if he knew me, if he had seen me in any competition. Before writing to him I was afraid because, wow! Iván Pedroso! I was nobody, I didn't have titles, but I thought the worst thing that could happen to me was That he didn't answer me. And in his first answer he was very good. He told me that he already knew who he was, that he had seen some of my videos. Then we were more specific, he offered me to go and train in Spain with him and when I arrived ... I still remember the first time he shook my hand. The day I wrote to him on Facebook marks a before and after for me, "recognizes Rojas in conversation for EL MUNDO before starting at the Tokyo Games.
This Friday in the classification and on Sunday in the triple jump final he will look for the gold, which is already assumed in his neck, and especially the world record that resists and resists him. If he succeeds, he will be the brightest star in an orphan sport of light since the departure of
Usain Bolt
.
Pedroso resides in Guadalajara and there he has his training center. Did you adapt well to the city when you arrived? It was all a shock. He had never left Venezuela, he was very young and, suddenly, to see other ways of living, other food, such complete facilities ... the cold! I arrived in November and the cold was something new for me. It was hard to get used to it, to be away from the family, but then everything was flowing and things were placed where we wanted. Right now I am very happy to be there, in Spain, and Guadalajara is very good for us as a bunker. It is a very, very quiet city, there is only what is necessary. So we are away from everything, from parties, from distractions, and we focus on the jumps.
She is passionate about Latin music, dance, and Pedroso looks very, very serious, he's quite serious, yes, but he also likes disorder, that we are happy on the dance floor, that we let loose, because if not, things they don't come out. When you have to analyze the training, to work on any detail, we do not joke, but then sometimes you even get carried away. It is important to have that good relationship, that connection between coach and athlete, the world record for triple jump has been held since it was set by
Inessa Kravets
in 1995, that is, 26 years ago.
Do you need the perfect jump to overcome those 15.50 meters? It's really all a matter of letting it flow.
There are times when I think I want to break it, I want to break it, I want to break it and I forget to be me and to let the jump flow.
I have to take the competition as a training day and after a good race comes out, a good technique ... I have to rely on daily work and wait for the day to come. How many times have you seen the Kravets video?
Do you know her? I've seen the video, of course I've seen it, a few times.
But I haven't had a chance to meet her.
I saw that in an interview he talked about me and said that he saw me as the right person to break the record, but we have never talked.
Maybe I have a chance in the future.
Carlos PucheWorld Athletics
This same year he reached 15.43 meters. Is the record already an obsession? Right now the most important thing is to win the Olympic gold, it would place me at the top [at the Rio 2016 Games it was silver], but the record is an important symbol for me. The medals persist, I know, but the record ... The record takes my sleep away because it would be remembered for many years and because I am so close. I've been working for a long time to break it, she is undoubtedly a favorite for gold, but for the podium ... How do you see
Ana Peleteiro
?Go figure! I see a great change in her, I trust her a lot. In the last competitions he has given a high and has good expectations in these Games. Every day I see her training and I know that she is in good physical condition, that she can achieve what she sets out to do. You just have to believe it and go for it. Anita is up for great things, believe me Spain! Looking back on her career: luck that she left volleyball there in Venezuela. Volleyball was my desired sport, thanks to volleyball I am an athlete. I fell in love with the sport watching volleyball teams compete in the Beijing Olympics. When I saw them, it filled me in such a way that I just wanted to do volleyball. I was a girl, but I knew that I was quite tall for my age and that I wanted to make the national team. I tried, I tried, but athletics completely caught up with me.It cost because several times I escaped from training on the court to go play volleyball with my friends and the coach had to come. to find me. The volleyball coach, on the other hand, told me: "Come with us, come with us." Do you remember a happy childhood in Venezuelan Barcelona? Yes, very happy despite the economic shortcomings we had. My mother and father tried to support us with little. The upbringing and the values they taught us was the most wonderful thing I have in life. I am very proud of where I was born, where I came from, where I grew up. The root should never be forgotten, I carry it in my mind and in my heart."Come with us, come with us." Do you remember a happy childhood in Venezuelan Barcelona? Yes, very happy despite the economic deficiencies we had. My mother and father tried to support us with little. The upbringing and the values they taught us was the most wonderful thing I have in life. I am very proud of where I was born, where I came from, where I grew up. The root should never be forgotten, I carry it in my mind and in my heart."Come with us, come with us." Do you remember a happy childhood in Venezuelan Barcelona? Yes, very happy despite the economic deficiencies we had. My mother and father tried to support us with little. The upbringing and the values they taught us was the most wonderful thing I have in life. I am very proud of where I was born, where I came from, where I grew up. The root should never be forgotten, I carry it in my mind and in my heart.The root should never be forgotten, I carry it in my mind and in my heart.The root should never be forgotten, I carry it in my mind and in my heart.
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