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The night was long for

Alberto Ginés

, who arrived with his gold medal at the Olympic Village, was congratulated by the entire Spanish delegation and then received a message from his companions on the podium and from other climbers such as

Adam Ondra

. Are you getting off? They asked him. And he got off, boy did he get off. "I went to sleep at eight in the morning," he admits via Zoom and acknowledges that at the end of the competition he experienced two surprises.

The first, knowing that he had won. "I did not have the results very controlled and I thought that they still had to be updated, I was looking at the screen to see when they changed, but no ...", he acknowledges. And the second surprise, when opening the phone. "I expected notifications from Instagram, which is a social network that I use a lot and where I have some followers, but they were all notifications from Twitter. I didn't understand anything. I had a half-secret account with 200 followers and suddenly there were a lot [almost 100,000], All the famous people that I follow talked about me, it was 'Trending Topic' ... Maybe now I cut myself a little more when writing, "says Ginés about his intimate account, which contains some messages that deserve analysis.

"The other day I was quietly in the car and out of nowhere I started crying, I just wondered if it was really worth losing my family's life," he wrote on Twitter. As a teenager he went to live in the CAR of Sant Cugat from Cáceres, where he was born. What happened then, I don't know exactly. I have been away from my family for a long time. Those days there was a problem, as there are in all houses, I couldn't be with them and I fell down. Nor is it that he thought a lot about the tweet when he wrote it. I was in the car, I stopped for gas, I remembered it, and I posted it: "Can there be just one day that I don't hear about the Olympics? What a fucking nightmare." Actually, that is the feeling of many Olympians before the appointment, is that before you get a little overwhelmed.Two months ago I started working with a psychologist who helped me a lot to get here calmer. The way was to think that it was already a prize to get to Tokyo, to be able to compete and that my goal should be to get into the final. He tried not to pressure me. In that preview of the Games he wrote many tweets like this: "I'm so tired of everything." What exhausted you the most? The fact of not having enough infrastructure of sufficient quality in Spain has made things very difficult for me. It was already seen in the block, that I am a little green. Before the Games we had to travel a lot, go a lot to Austria to train. If I was even there when there were only 10 or 12 days left for the Games and other climbers would say to me: Why don't you go home before going to Tokyo? And he told them that he couldn't go back to Spain because he couldn't stop, he needed to train.Many of his tweets are of heartbreak, too. Yes, well ... it has happened to all of us, right? Those are the tweets with which now he will cut himself more? I do not know, the truth ... not the same. " People telling me on twitter that I don't deserve to represent Spain in the Olympics because I'm red, all right ??? ", he commented. There is no way not to get dirty with politics. That was because I 'liked' something about my sister [called 'Roja no, lo pea', on Twitter] and there were people who started throwing 'hate' at me [a insult him], but it was nothing important. In that sense, there are already politicians who want to mark their gold as their own. And others who have not congratulated me. "I do not assimilate it", was his last message on Twitter, along with a photograph with the medal. When you do, Olympic champion at 18, do you think you may lack motivation?I really like to compete. In fact I am thinking that now I will have a week or week and a half of rest and that later, in September, I will go to the World Cup, in Slovenia. It takes a bit to assimilate the gold, but I don't think it will change. So are you already thinking about the Paris 2024 Games? Yes, but it will be difficult for me to qualify because of what I said. For the Paris Games, the speed comes out of the Olympic combined and it is difficult for me to prepare as a block. I hope this serves to make a change in terms of facilities in Spain.but it will be difficult for me to classify myself by what it said. For the Paris Games, the speed comes out of the Olympic combined and it is difficult for me to prepare as a block. I hope this serves to make a change in terms of facilities in Spain.but it will be difficult for me to classify myself by what it said. For the Paris Games, the speed comes out of the Olympic combined and it is difficult for me to prepare as a block. I hope this serves to make a change in terms of facilities in Spain.

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