Sandra Sánchez The medal that cannot be escaped
Sandra Sánchez
, the girl who was angry because they signed her up to dance and not karate, like her brother Paco.
The young woman who did not hesitate to leave the High Performance Center in Madrid to watch over the illness of her mother, María Isabel.
The karate fighter who dominates the world in the specialty of kata has already fulfilled part of her Olympic dream.
This afternoon at the Nipon Budokan, mid-morning in Spain (12.50 pm), she will compete with the local
Kiyou Shimizu
in the final, gold or silver already assured.
"I come to do such good and perfect katas, that they are worth the Olympic medal. If we take out everything we trained on the mat, it will never be a failure," said the talaverana in the previous one, who did not fail in her first three attempts. The look of defiance, the buzz of the karategi. Sandra soon took the lead in her group, scoring 27.4 in the first two kata.
Later, in the definitive, he performed the Papureni kata, one of his favorites, and again it was close to perfection.
An average score of 27.86, very far from her rivals in the group, which takes her directly to the final, where she will face her great rival, who also dominated her group.
"I thought I was going to be more nervous but I felt very well. Let's go for the gold!", She said later, after the hug and kiss of
Jesús del Moral
, her husband and coach.
And before taking a break towards the grand finale.
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