“If I win it’s my turn against a teammate, but friendship ends on the shooting line”

By Mauro Giovannini / Special from Asuncion

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The fourth day of competitions of the XII South American Games will start today in Asunción, capital of Paraguay.

The attention for Bahía Blanca will focus on what the representatives of the local Archery Circle will be able to do, who arrive with high expectations for the direct duels.

“It’s the first time I’m going to compete in an Argentine official team, I’m excited”

Federico Salvetti and Iván Nikolajuk will compete today in the compound bow modality. By the way, both could be rivals in the round of 16…

“If tomorrow I win in the first inning, I get to play against a teammate, a colleague, a friend. That’s a bit difficult because only one advances and one really wants the friend to advance. In this case we will have to fight between the two to see who passes. Friendship ends on the shooting line, ha ha ha, so we’ll see how it turns out,” he told The new one. the Pampean Salvetti.

The 12th position in the classification forced him to shoot today, from 9:30, for the round of 32. His rival will be the Ecuadorian Joseph García Santos.

The winner will go, from 10.05, against Nikolajuk from Rio Negro (he was 5th).

“I wish him the best, I hope he can get his job done. I’m going to try to do my thing and let it be what it has to be,” he admitted.

Yesterday both were very close to reaching a medal in the team duel, but fell to Chile in the shoot-off.

“It was very exciting, we got to a point where it was an arrow for each one and the slightest thought that crosses your mind and it can be anything. I don’t feel like I lost, really. I’m responsible for shooting the 8, but It was a very fine, strict instance and it didn’t happen. We did our best,” Salvetti analyzed in reference to the tiebreaker.

Who will also appear on the scene is Florencia Leithold, from Bahia, who finished in 6th place in Sunday’s classification and went directly into the women’s recurve round of 16.

The appointment is for 2:35 p.m., at the premises of the Paraguayan Olympic Committee.

There, she will have to go head to head with the Chilean Gabriela Anabalon, who ranked 11th out of 18 competitors.