Cecilia Carranza Saroni began her Olympic campaign with Sol Branz, but Paris 2024 will not be possible due to her physical ailments
“Paris 2024 is no longer a possibility.” Thus, between paragraph and paragraph and with a phrase that does not allow half measures, the sailor Cecilia Carranza Saroli, Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro 2016 along with Santiago Lange, broke with any speculation about her participation in this year’s Games, which they would have meant the fifth of his career. She put an end to this Olympic campaign and three suspensions for the future: “I also don’t know if I am going to return to the Olympics in my role as an athlete.” She did so through a statement that she shared on the social network Instagram, which was immediately filled with likes and comments from the Olympic world. The physical problems and pain that she has been living with for years have made it impossible for her, in recent months, to train as her high performance deserves. “I feel a lot of frustration,” she wrote.
Cecilia Carranza Saroli, 37 years old, Pan American champion, runner-up and world bronze medalist, became the second female athlete from Argentina to win the gold medal in the Olympic Games. It was in Rio de Janeiro 2016, a few days after Paula Pareto did the same on the judo tatami and became the first. He wrote great history with Santiago Lange, with whom he started the Nacra 17 campaign a few months after changing class (he went to Beijing 2008 and London 2012 competing in Laser) and they achieved maximum glory with a shocking performance in Guanabara Bay . That achievement was so great and they were so symbolic within the family of Argentine Olympism that the Olympic Committee chose them as standard bearers of the national delegation for the opening ceremony of Tokyo 2020, the long and exceptional Games that were finally held in 2021. due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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From the land of the Rising Sun, Cecilia and Santiago left with positive feelings after a few bittersweet days in which they could not find the best performance: they won the Medal Race, although when they faced that regatta it was already without a chance of podium. By then, Cecilia’s problems were increasing, with intense back pain that affected those long-awaited Games. After the closure, they announced the dissolution of the duo and new directions for both. While Santiago stayed in Nacra 17 and joined Victoria Travascio (a few months ago he announced his retirement from the Olympics, at 62 years old), Cecilia got on the boat with Sol Branz, now in the 49er FX class. With a powerful video edited with the music of Ala Delta by Divididos, they were presented to society on April 3, 2022: “Great team for this new great challenge, @parís2024,” they wrote. And they started, with their enthusiasm intact and results that were immediate: in 2023 they took the podium in the traditional Princesa Sofía tournament, one of the most important events in the yachting universe.
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This Friday, the statement arrived that perhaps the Rosario would never have wanted to write: “Dear friends! I haven’t been here in a long time. These times were difficult for me, much more difficult than I thought they could be. The physical limitations with which I live due to my back injury made me realize that being on top of the boat at this moment is no longer an option for me and accepting that is becoming difficult for me,” she began. And immediately, she responded to the great unknown: she will not be in Paris. “I feel a lot of frustration because we had formed a tremendous team with @solbranz with the goal of representing Argentina in Paris 2024 at the highest level and that is no longer a possibility.” Sol, meanwhile, will continue seeking classification with Julia Pantín.
Cecilia Carranza Saroli and Santiago Lange competed together until Tokyo: it was a successful duo – Credits: @Gregorio Borgia
Thus, at 37 years old, he also showed that his retirement from the Olympics is a reliable possibility, although he will analyze it as the months go by: “For now I have a lot of uncertainty, but I decided to accept all this and put into words what I don’t know today. “I can and do not want to do to be able to stand in a different way in the face of new possibilities and pending issues that my sports career made me put aside,” he continued. Then, he thanked those who accompanied his career for so many years, those who do so during these difficult times, “the river, the family, the friends and followers, the coaching staff, sponsors and sports institutions.” He said that the “warrior” personality that “the most wonderful and interesting sport in the world” shaped her will not make her give up and she will continue to seek “physical, mental and emotional well-being to find my best version.”
The first time Cecilia Carranza Saroli got on a boat, she was just a baby. But right there, in Rosario, between dad, mom and siblings, she started this passion. At 6 years old she was already sailing on Optimist. She built a career of permanent search, of constant risks and illusions, with challenges that sometimes she alone saw (and defended). Her tenacity led her to travel the world, first practically alone, even when she was a teenager, and along the way she set goals. As said, she achieved her maximum glory in Rio de Janeiro 2016, winning the gold medal, but in that discovery her best results were not only in her condition as an athlete. In the midst of everything, always, the Olympic Games were her sleepless nights. Today her body tells her “enough” and hearing it hurts her. But it is necessary. As necessary as putting the boat on land when the weather gets tough.
The most significant medal in Cecilia Carranza Saroli’s career: the Rio 2016 Olympic gold – Credits: @Laurence Griffiths
2024-02-09 21:58:36
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