Ana Peleteiro: "That the two medalists were black will screw a lot of people"

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And the medal? "The medal? Look, don't talk to me. I've been looking for a place to leave it in the apartment all day so that it won't be stolen from me because the other day some ... Hey, if they steal it, do you know if they give you another one? ? " And so,

, diaphanous as anyone, on her first day as an Olympic medalist, talks to EL MUNDO in the Villa. "There is a party here, uh, there is a party in the outdoor areas, but I arrived so exhausted from the stadium that all I wanted was to stretch out in bed. Of course, it was impossible for me to sleep. I spent all night eating wall", he admits and, on his face, tiredness.

Have you at least been able to talk to your parents quietly? No, no, quietly it is impossible. On WhatsApp it is not the same either, the Wi-Fi in the Villa is not going very well ... I talked to them about the basics, I told them what I wanted to say, but I prefer to save the long talk for when I get to Galicia. That is the best that awaits me. It's going to be brutal. My father is a lifelong sports fanatic and when he sees the medal he will freak out. They tell me that he is levitating around the house, that he walks like a Sim. There he will have no problem where to put the medal. There he already has his little space reserved. The medals stay in Galicia because my father takes good care of them there: he cleans them, pampers them ... He never thought he would have to keep a medal at the Olympic Games and look, he started on the day of the final, yesterday, talking to his friend

of how much her life could change in a few hours. My partner,

[

, Portuguese tripler], always tells me: 'When I was proclaimed Olympic champion it changed my life.' I am not a champion, but I am a medalist and, although I am still not aware of how it will change me, seeing the repercussion I can imagine it. Now people will not know me on TV or Instagram, they will know me through my work. That they change your life thanks to your work is what everyone aspires to. Although I will continue to be the same, I already had my time of it getting to my head, of not knowing how to manage it. Winning a Junior World Cup as a girl, at 16, losing your way and finding it again has merit. It is very difficult. . Today I met two girls who were with me at the Youth World Cup in Lille, in 2011. 'It's been 10 years!', One says to me and I say: 'Shut your mouth, don't tell me'. 10 years!And it turns out that they did not qualify for the final and I got a medal. That means I am doing something right. They thought me dead and buried for years and here I am. Maybe I could have more medals in the World or European World Cups, I lost myself for a while, but those were years in which I matured. Now what do you remember of your adolescence in the CAR in Madrid? I enjoyed myself in the CAR, I had a blast. When you are a girl and you are alone in Madrid, it is normal that you get lost. And more me, that I am an only child, that my parents had always carried me in their arms. Suddenly I fell in Madrid, with many distractions ... but look, today, I am 25 years old, I don't like to party, it doesn't attract me at all and that helps me focus on my work. I burned the party, I was going out since I was 14 and I got bored of that world. Look where it was five years ago.... Yesterday, before the final, the iPhone reminded me of a photo from five years ago: I had not gone to the Games [due to injury] and I was partying in Sanxenxo, you can imagine how. I was not at all proud of that photo, but at the same time I thought that summer went well for me to rethink my life and start from scratch. I'd look at the phone and think, 'Oh my gosh, girl, how your life has changed. Olé tú '. After winning the medal he spoke of the "demons" in his head. What did he mean? We all have our demons in our heads, our fears and we must learn to stop them, to tell them no. Suddenly, you see that you have an insecurity that comes from a trauma from when you were little and you say: 'But how can that affect me now?' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coachBefore the final, the iPhone reminded me of a photo from five years ago: I had not been to the Games [due to injury] and I was partying in Sanxenxo, you can imagine how. I was not at all proud of that photo, but at the same time I thought that summer went well for me to rethink my life and start from scratch. I'd look at the phone and think, 'Oh my gosh, girl, how your life has changed. Olé tú '. After winning the medal he spoke of the "demons" in his head. What did he mean? We all have our demons in our heads, our fears and we must learn to stop them, to tell them no. Suddenly, you see that you have an insecurity that comes from a trauma from when you were little and you say: 'But how can that affect me now?' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coachBefore the final, the iPhone reminded me of a photo from five years ago: I had not been to the Games [due to injury] and I was partying in Sanxenxo, you can imagine how. I was not at all proud of that photo, but at the same time I thought that summer went well for me to rethink my life and start from scratch. I'd look at the phone and think, 'Oh my gosh, girl, how your life has changed. Olé tú '. After winning the medal he spoke of the "demons" in his head. What did he mean? We all have our demons in our heads, our fears and we must learn to stop them, to tell them no. Suddenly, you see that you have an insecurity that comes from a trauma from when you were little and you say: 'But how can that affect me now?' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coachThe iPhone reminded me of a photo from five years ago: I hadn't been to the Games [due to injury] and I was partying in Sanxenxo, you can imagine how. I was not at all proud of that photo, but at the same time I thought that summer went well for me to rethink my life and start from scratch. I'd look at the phone and think, 'Oh my gosh, girl, how your life has changed. Olé tú '. After winning the medal he spoke of the "demons" in his head. What did he mean? We all have our demons in our heads, our fears and we must learn to stop them, to tell them no. Suddenly, you see that you have an insecurity that comes from a trauma from when you were little and you say: 'But how can that affect me now?' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coachThe iPhone reminded me of a photo from five years ago: I hadn't been to the Games [due to injury] and I was partying in Sanxenxo, you can imagine how. I was not at all proud of that photo, but at the same time I thought that summer went well for me to rethink my life and start from scratch. I'd look at the phone and think, 'Oh my gosh, girl, how your life has changed. Olé tú '. After winning the medal he spoke of the "demons" in his head. What did he mean? We all have our demons in our heads, our fears and we must learn to stop them, to tell them no. Suddenly, you see that you have an insecurity that comes from a trauma from when you were little and you say: 'But how can that affect me now?' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coachmy coachmy coachI hadn't been to the Games [due to injury] and I was partying in Sanxenxo, you can imagine how. I was not at all proud of that photo, but at the same time I thought that summer went well for me to rethink my life and start from scratch. I'd look at the phone and think, 'Oh my gosh, girl, how your life has changed. Olé tú '. After winning the medal he spoke of the "demons" in his head. What did he mean? We all have our demons in our heads, our fears and we must learn to stop them, to tell them no. Suddenly, you see that you have an insecurity that comes from a trauma from when you were little and you say: 'But how can that affect me now?' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coachI hadn't been to the Games [due to injury] and I was partying in Sanxenxo, you can imagine how. I was not at all proud of that photo, but at the same time I thought that summer went well for me to rethink my life and start from scratch. I'd look at the phone and think, 'Oh my gosh, girl, how your life has changed. Olé tú '. After winning the medal he spoke of the "demons" in his head. What did he mean? We all have our demons in our heads, our fears and we must learn to stop them, to tell them no. Suddenly, you see that you have an insecurity that comes from a trauma from when you were little and you say: 'But how can that affect me now?' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coachI was not at all proud of that photo, but at the same time I thought that summer went well for me to rethink my life and start from scratch. I'd look at the phone and think, 'Oh my gosh, girl, how your life has changed. Olé tú '. After winning the medal he spoke of the "demons" in his head. What did he mean? We all have our demons in our heads, our fears and we must learn to stop them, to tell them no. Suddenly, you see that you have an insecurity that comes from a trauma from when you were little and you say: 'But how can that affect me now?' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coachI was not at all proud of that photo, but at the same time I thought that summer went well for me to rethink my life and start from scratch. I'd look at the phone and think, 'Oh my gosh, girl, how your life has changed. Olé tú '. After winning the medal he spoke of the "demons" in his head. What did he mean? We all have our demons in our heads, our fears and we must learn to stop them, to tell them no. Suddenly, you see that you have an insecurity that comes from a trauma from when you were little and you say: 'But how can that affect me now?' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coachgirl, how your life has changed. Olé tú '. After winning the medal he spoke of the "demons" in his head. What did he mean? We all have our demons in our heads, our fears and we must learn to stop them, to tell them no. Suddenly, you see that you have an insecurity that comes from a trauma from when you were little and you say: 'But how can that affect me now?' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coachgirl, how your life has changed. Olé tú '. After winning the medal he spoke of the "demons" in his head. What did he mean? We all have our demons in our heads, our fears and we must learn to stop them, to tell them no. Suddenly, you see that you have an insecurity that comes from a trauma from when you were little and you say: 'But how can that affect me now?' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coachBut how can that affect me now? ' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coachBut how can that affect me now? ' Well, it affects you. I am lucky to work with a professional, my coach

, who is very empathetic, who understands me, with which I have managed to open up and has helped me a lot. Since the 2019 Doha World Cup he has helped me a lot, why since then? It was a bad year. I had just been the European champion, but I had a lot of problems, a lot of injuries and I finished sixth in the World Cup. Jolín, it was a downer. I was very, very bad psychologically and last year, in 2020, with the confinement, I completely rethought my life. I started to take care of my head, to treat my mental health because I was very, very, very bad. I had a mourning for the death of my grandmother that I had not overcome, I had many wounds from the past to heal ... All that did not let me be happy. Now I know how to manage my emotions. In fact, if I won an Olympic medal it is because I knew how to manage my emotions. The coronavirus was a disaster, it had horrible things,But everything bad brings something good, and I knew how to take advantage of being home alone for four months. Instead of crying because I was alone, I dedicated myself to healing myself. Talk about his 'coach'. In these Games the team has vindicated over the individual because, although athletics is an individual sport, only one is nobody. I can try very hard, but if I don't have a team behind me that picks me up when I fall, that puts me on the road when I get lost, that tells me 'calm down, Ana, little by little' ... If I don't have that team, I'm nobody. Without them I wouldn't be here today. He would be where he was five years ago. And another claim: with his bronze and silver fromcoach '. In these Games the team has vindicated over the individual because, although athletics is an individual sport, only one is nobody. I can try very hard, but if I don't have a team behind me that picks me up when I fall, that puts me on the road when I get lost, that tells me 'calm down, Ana, little by little' ... If I don't have that team, I'm nobody. Without them I wouldn't be here today. He would be where he was five years ago. And another claim: with his bronze and silver fromcoach '. In these Games the team has vindicated over the individual because, although athletics is an individual sport, only one is nobody. I can try very hard, but if I don't have a team behind me that picks me up when I fall, that puts me on the road when I get lost, that tells me 'calm down, Ana, little by little' ... If I don't have that team, I'm nobody. Without them I wouldn't be here today. He would be where he was five years ago. And another claim: with his bronze and silver fromIf I don't have that team, I'm nobody. Without them I wouldn't be here today. He would be where he was five years ago. And another claim: with his bronze and silver fromIf I don't have that team, I'm nobody. Without them I wouldn't be here today. He would be where he was five years ago. And another claim: with his bronze and silver from

It is clear that Spain is diverse. Many people will be screwed that the two medalists from Spain yesterday were black. But it is the evidence of a change. That the mix is ​​super good, that the mix enriches a country, that the mix is ​​the best there is. Whoever does not want to see it is because it is silly because there is nothing more beautiful than mixing two good things, dammit. The last one: What does Yulimar Rojas say? With Yulimar we are laughing all day. Today we have gone together for the medals, we have eaten together ... with her everything is laughter. For me it is fortunate to train with her and it is fortunate to have been born in her time. I could be overwhelmed and think that it is a disgrace to have met her, but it is the opposite. She makes all the rest of us grow. Now it is in another galaxy, that is obvious, but if I work a little more, if I take care of myself a little more,If I try a little harder, maybe I'll just be on another planet for a while. And then we all have good days and bad days. I also hope that everyone enjoys it because such an athlete is born every 100 years.

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