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Diego Garcia Carrera: “The Spanish march is always at a very high level”

Archive – The Spanish athlete Diego Garcia Carrera – Irina R. Hipolito / AFP7 / Europa Press – File

The Spanish athlete Diego Garcia Carrera recalled this Monday that “Spanish walking is always at a very high level” and that both he and his teammates feel “proud” of having demonstrated it once again with the successes achieved at the European Championships in Munich (Germany). ), where he won the bronze medal in the 20 kilometres.

“The Spanish march is always at a very high level and in that sense, we do feel very proud to be able to demonstrate it. In the World Cup it could not be, but that also teaches us that no one gives away medals, that this is very complicated and that sometimes you can, but in others the world is very big, there are many countries and they all want to win”, declared Garcia Carrera upon his arrival in Spain.

The walker was “very happy” because the medal is “proof and reward” that he has done a good job. “Sport is what it has, you have to work hard and train a lot, but the result doesn’t always come. So when we have the opportunity to achieve it and receive it, we have to know how to enjoy it and be very happy,” he assured.

Going through the third goal “was a great moment” for the man from Madrid, who confesses that he had to suffer “a lot”. “I had a stabbing flatus attack in the upper part of my abdomen that, for a few moments, I didn’t know if I was going to be able to keep up and if my rivals were going to catch me. I had to do an absolute concentration exercise there, trusting that Those bad feelings were going to go away and that in the last two kilometers I was going to be able to get back to the rhythm I had before to defend the medal,” he said.

“Finally, when you cross the finish line and you get it, you say ‘Finally, all the effort has its reward’ and it’s very gratifying. On top of that with the double that we Spaniards did, that’s really wonderful”, he stressed in relation to the gold won by Alvaro Martin.

The man from Madrid had commented on his networks that he had been eating with both Asier Martinez and Mario Garcia Romo before they got their medals at the event and that he hoped to be lucky too.

“I don’t know who I had dinner with, but I have to admit that I also ate one day with the 4×400 and finally they couldn’t get the medal, so one hundred percent it didn’t come out. But I also suspect that something had to do with what it is the training of these athletes who got the medal, but I can’t confirm it,” he joked.

Now on the horizon is the Olympic Games in Paris, where he dreams of playing metal and is going to “train for it”. “We know that we need a ‘little step’ with respect to the Japanese, that I haven’t been able to beat them yet, and they will be safe there. If we want to beat them we are going to have to take a ‘little’ more, but that’s what sport is about, I think we still have room for improvement and we are going to go for it,” he said.

Now he is going to “rest” after “the last two quite intense days after competing”. “Now you have to do in seven days what has not been done in the summer, spend a little time with family and friends. The truth is that I have many destinations next week,” she concluded.

Source: Europa Press

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