Special Envoy to Tokyo
Updated:26/08/2021 14:14h
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She could barely hold back the tears, not breathing in excitement. «I thought i couldn’t do it. It has been two very, very hard years psychologically. It was not my best test, but at the Games the brand does not matter, but the color of the medal, “said the swimmer.
It was a very tough test nor has it reached its best moment. But there it is, his name again on the Paralympic podium, after being champion in Rio 2016 in this same test, at the age of 18. I’ve given everything. It wasn’t my best moment it had put enormous pressure on me. With huge insecurities. And I’ve given everything, everything I had to get it, ”he continued, still huffing.
Salguero, with a congenital malformation for which he was born without a right forearm, has been linked to swimming all his life, which he arrived at when he was just two years old for a course that his parents signed up for him. He went through karate and even tried water polo. Yes, no right arm. But he didn’t see that he was missing anything. Yes, who saw it they decided that I was not suitable. It made him stronger.
In swimming he has become king of the breaststroke, Paralympic champion in Rio 2016, world champion in Mexico 2017 and European champion in Dublin 2018. Now, he adds a silver in Tokyo 2020 to convince himself that he was capable. «The process has been hard and in the end it was very complicated. I am a psychologically weak person and everything had cost me a lot. Now I know that I have done it and that the training is there and that I can achieve it, “he finished with the emotion still trembling in his voice.
He will continue swimming for as long as he wants, enthusiasm, work and ambition. Then your goal is practice as a doctor. And sporty, to show in the consultation everything he has learned in the water.
It is the fourth medal for the Spanish delegation in Tokyo 2020, after Miguel Luque and Toni Ponce’s silver in swimming and Alfonso Cabello’s gold in track cycling.
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