Archery is a sport to which Mexico He started paying attention to it around 2008. It was a virtuous decision. In a short time it began to yield results: Aída Román (silver) and Mariana Avitia (bronze) they made it 2-3 in the Olympic Games of London 2012; in Tokyo 2020, Alejandra Valencia and Luis Álvarez They also reached the podium in mixed teams, which was included in the Olympic program for the first time. Three medals in three cycles tell us that in the country there is talent for the discipline, and that with work and good decisions it can continue to provide satisfaction.
In Paris 2024, the responsibility for continuing to achieve success falls, once again, on the world runner-up, Alejandra Valenciawho will be in her third Olympic Games. In both the individual event and the women’s team and mixed team events, the Sonoran will be fighting to become a two-time Olympic medalist. Without a doubt, the medal she most yearns for is the individual one, which she has been craving since London, when she had her first Olympic adventure.
With Valencia, the Coahuila people Ana Paula Vazquez and Angela Ruizthe latter only 17 years old, will also be in the fight for medals. Vázquez will have her second Olympic experience and, more mature than in Tokyo, she wants to get rid of the thorn of having been eliminated in the round of 32. The three are under the direction of coach Miguel Flores, who took the reins of the national women’s archery since 2011. Valencia has trained with him since she was a child, while Vazquez and Ruiz have been in their home state with Eduardo Maganaand Angela too with Miguel Barcenas.
Coahuila is the land that saw the birth of Matias Grandea national team that has been partnering with Valencia for three years. Last May they were proclaimed champions in mixed teams Yecheon World CupSouth Korea, and have won five medals in total, in two Pan American championships, as well as in the 2023 Central American and Pan American Games.
16 years ago, with the help of the Korean coach Lee Wong, México He began to lay those foundations in archery. I remember how the Conade He boasted about his biomechanics laboratory in search of improving movement techniques and the methodological work that was being done. This has been lost.
It is necessary to continue working with sciences applied to sports, with specialized personnel and not with improvised personnel. Nor should we stop looking at what the countries that are powerhouses in archery do, which even train simulating the scenario in which they will be competing in Paris. They are not details, it is the difference between winning medals and staying close to obtaining them.
By Beatriz Pereyra
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2024-06-30 06:05:00
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