MADRID 20 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish judoka Fran Garrigós hopes to “get to Los Angeles 2028” after savoring an Olympic medal in Paris 2024, although he is undoubtedly aware that he has to go year by year, with the short-term objectives of the European Championship and the World Cup in 2025.
“It has been a very good year, in the end, getting a medal in the Olympic Games is a dream that you have had since you were little. The goal was the European Championship, with that gold, and the Games, so that we could be higher on the podium , but you don’t know when you are going to be fighting for a medal in the Games again,” he confessed this Wednesday in statements to Europa Press.
During the VII edition of the Sports Values Gala of the newspaper SPORT, at the Royal Tapestry Factory in Madrid, Garrigós shared the unique moment last summer in Paris when he achieved bronze in -60 kg, the medal that had eluded him so much. him and Spanish judo. “I’m really looking forward to starting next season again and with new goals,” he said.
“It is a very special moment that I have been dreaming of all my life. You feel very satisfied that all the work has been worth it,” he noted about the moment on the podium at the Games. At the beginning of a new Olympic cycle, the Madrid judoka, about to turn 30, hopes to recover his meniscus well and begin to achieve his short-term goals.
“I hope to start competing in February if I feel well after the meniscus operation. The goal is the European Championship and the World Championship. Los Angeles? That is the long-term goal but we are going to go year by year , I’m already old enough, and I’m waiting to get to Los Angeles,” he concluded.
