Marta Xargay reveals in El Pas who suffered from bulimia because of the Lucas Mondelo, dismissed this Friday as Spanish basketball coach for “failure to achieve sporting goals.” Xargay’s testimony was to be published before the Olympics, but the former player agreed to Jorge Garbajosa to delay it so that it would not interfere with the competition.
“The moment came when I had to put the person before the athlete. I could not continue to endure unacceptable things. There are limits that must not be crossed and Lam took me to a very heavy limit. It’s tough … I’ve had a lot of trouble with food because of this person. It all started in Russia, in my time at Dynamo Kursk. We were weighed every week and he was always behind watching everything. There were several situations, in team rallies, in which she approached Sonja Petrovic and she told us that we didn’t have dessert because we were fat, “says Xargay.
“At that time I weighed 67 kilos, and I am 1.82m tall. I was physically fine, but that made me very insecure, on and off the track. He constantly told me that I was out of weight … This caused me a physical and mental revolution“adds Marta, who recently announced her final retirement from basketball.
He relates that he became obsessed and was diagnosed with bulimia and orthorexia, an obsession with healthy food. Xargay notes that he tells his story with a “desire to help rather than to report. I tell it because I think I can help many girls who are going through the same“.
Xargay also denounces Mondelo’s constant disregard and disrespect while she was at your command as a player: “She has not known how to control her authority. At no time has he respected me, neither as a player nor as a person. He has had many comments, public and private, attacking me and getting to value my private life and my relationships “
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