Julian Andres Santa
Starting this week, the 2022/05/colombia-selection-focuses-on-the-pearl/” title=”Colombia Selection focuses on the Pearl!”>Risaraldense Badminton League returned to its activities and training, preparing for the competitions and challenges that they will have in 2022. The number one racket in the country, Juliana Giraldo, referred to the start of pre-competitive work. “I started with all the attitude, all the desire, we started training again on January 17 and I’m going with everything because they already gave us the news of the selective, so with all the motivation to start again and resume in the best way”.
In the selective of the selection
It was in the middle of the training day that the athlete learned that her name was on the selective list of the national team to seek a place in the Bolivarian Games that will be held in Valledupar in June. “I took her by surprise, the truth is that I did not know that the selective would be so soon, I did know about the Bolivarian Games but the selective is very soon and I like challenges and this is one for me, to get the first place again place and be able to qualify for these international fairs”.
Of experience in these contests
Despite her youth, Juliana is one of the most experienced Colombian athletes in international competitions with national badminton, so the Bolivarians are not new to her. “I was already at the Bolivarian Games in 2017 that took place in Santa Marta.”
Regarding the format of the commitments in the selection to win one of the quotas, the athlete from Risaralda said: “They haven’t told us yet but the previous selections have been confrontations of all against all and those who win the matches already get the quota , there will be four women and four men.
National Games Mode
There is no doubt that another of the great challenges of the sports calendar for this 2022 is to continue with the process towards the National Games next year. “This year we finished the preparation and the other year is more of a qualifying year for one to position oneself in a better place to enter the 2023 National Games as a seed.”
He wants to win four medals
Regarding its purpose for the sports fairs that will take place in the Coffee Region, Giraldo referred. “I was already in the 2015 editions where they eliminated us in the first round and in 2019 I won the gold medal in women’s singles and gold in women’s doubles. The idea is to be able to win four gold medals in the four categories, for teams, women’s doubles, individual and mixed doubles”.
Regularity in the first place
It is not easy for an athlete to consolidate one year as the number one in his sport in his country, as Juliana Giraldo has achieved, as a result of his commitment, sacrifice and effort to always be at the top. “I have been in first place at the national level for four years or so, the truth is that it is very gratifying for me, because despite the fact that one is already getting bigger, to keep trying and achieve it is very satisfying personally,” he pointed out. the sportswoman
