Hidalgo judoka Luz Olvera announced her retirement from the tatami after 15 years, 10 of them in high performance, at this time she established herself as the best exponent of her division at the national level by earning a place in the national team and representing Mexico in international competitions .
In an interview for El Sol de Hidalgo, he commented that “it was a very difficult decision, it took me months to make it, to arrive and above all for mental health, the truth is that in the last year after I lost my brother (RIP), it cost me a lot of work to concentrate.
“I was lost, I realized it and I accepted it a little late, and when I wanted to do everything right, it took me a lot of work, in the end, I think, during the cycle for Tokyo I had done it in an incredible way that I know it could have been a lot. better, but everything in life has a reason and things happened for a reason, I accepted that after Tokyo many things were going to change and I, from before, told myself to qualify or not, Tokyo would be my last cycle”.
Regarding whether she owed anything to judo, she said that she knows that what she did in her division, the results she obtained, “nobody has had them, I know that I put a grain of sand in Mexican judo worldwide and that they knew who Luz Olvera is.”
His top 5 within his sports career are his first medal at the 2013 Pan American Seniors, which was his first Pan American, the second is when he won gold at the 2017 Grand Prix, silver at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, two sevenths places in the Grand Slam and having competed with the 2016 Brazilian Olympic champion and being there for you”.
