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Los Barcelona Olympic Games 92 marked a before and after for Spanish sport, and also for Castilla y León. A total loot of 22 medals, 13 gold, 7 silver and 2 bronze and some with a Castilian and Leonese flavor. It can’t be done better. They were the first Games where Spain lost its fear of facing other European and world powers. He took off the ballast and broke the medal table. 30 years later, we remember when the sport of Castilla y León touched the sky in the Olympus of the gods with the always criticized Recognize As a Witness.

One of the most symbolic gold medals in the history of Spanish Olympics, that of 1,500, was obtained by the Soriano Fermin Cacho and celebrated by an entire country that pushed him in the last 100 meters of the test, when he was already raising his arms towards the eternity of the gods of Mount Olympus. His look back is already part of the history of the Games. Against all odds she beat the African athletes. Cacho made the best decision of his life and slipped through a corridor that the Kenyan Chesire opened for him inside the track. The rest is already known. A soriano bathed in gold, the result of effort and perseverance.

Politician and married to her rival

The other gold also had its relevance in history. The Valladolid Miriam Blasco Soto (December 12, 1963) was the first Spanish athlete to win a medal at the Summer Olympics and the first to be an Olympic champion. July 31, 1992 is written in gold in the letters of the national sport. The judoka became the pioneer by achieving a gold medal in the Games, opening the door to the Spanish women’s medal table. The woman from Valladolid, who currently resides in Alicante where she has a large avenue, (she also has a sports center in the city of Pisuerga), dedicated the gold at the Games to her coach, Sergio Cardell, died shortly before the appointment in a motorcycle accident. Fate wanted the two to have very close streets in Alicante.

It went from being an unknown face to being the image of Cola Cao, appearing on television and becoming a typical Trivial question. He then joined the ranks of the Popular Party. As a curiosity, in July 2017 she explained in a report on Spanish Television that since 2015 she was married to her rival in the final of Barcelona 92, the British Nicola Fairbrother, with whom he had been in a relationship for 22 years as a couple.

Other names in Barcelona

The two of them received their award in gold, but at the Barcelona event, with the best, were other Castilian and Leonese athletes. For example, Valladolid Narcissus Suarez in canoeing, Paloma Arranz and Blanca Martinez in handball, and julia merino in athletics, Belen Sanchez, de Zamora, also in canoeing, or the soriano Abel Anton in the 5000 smooth test where he obtained a diploma. The Leonese legion was composed of the pitcher Margaret Ramos, Nieves Fernández, Cristina Fernández (rifle shooting), Piluca Alonso, Mónica Pulgar (basketball team) and the athlete Rodrigo Gavel. Burgos sport was present with Jose Francisco Guerra and Andres Crespo in fencing and the Paralympic athlete Purificación Santamarta.

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