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More than a failure, the elimination of this athlete in the eighth season of Exatlon Mexico It became more than anything another great learning, after when he was barely 13 years old left Monterrey to go to live first in Canada and then in Denmark, until finally making history for Mexico in the Olympic Games of Paris 2024.
After left Monterrey to his barely 13 years to become the first Mexican to win a set in badminton during the Olympic Games, this athlete He became the second eliminated from the eighth season of the Exatlon Mexico (the only one of the men so far on the Red Team) but not because of poor performance, much less because in Paris 2024 His participation ended in the first round and he was not even close to the podium, but due to injury.
This is how this Exatlón México athlete arrived in Paris 2024
Born in Nuevo León on May 10, 1996, this athlete which was already eliminated from the eighth season of the Exatlon Mexico From a young age he had an approach to sports, since at the age of four he began his training in badminton, a sport with little diffusion in our country, so at his 13 years left Monterrey to become a high-performance athlete by moving first to Canada and then to Denmark, where he specialized in technique until he earned his ticket to Paris 2024.
He sought to qualify for Rio 2016, but an illness stopped his preparation: In 2015 he was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, a rare disease that caused renal failure in both kidneys and he lost a lot of muscle mass, although after 12 months he came out ahead and returned to high-performance sport. , but his return was not easy because he also had to overcome a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in one of his knees, in addition to the dislocation of the patella, rupture of the collateral ligament, of the tendon of the patella and quadriceps tendon. In 2022 he recovered and returned to badminton to embark on the road to Paris 2024.
He left badminton to join Exatlón México
After his Olympic adventure, finally Ramon Garrido decided to temporarily abandon badminton to take on the challenge of participating in the eighth season of the Exatlon Mexicoin which he said: “I am going to give my best in every competition, in every circuit of which I am going to be part; “I’m going to need all your support on social media and seeing me every day in this incredible competition.”
And so he did, although unfortunately and after just two weeks Ramon Garrido He said goodbye to the TV Azteca reality show, due to a shoulder injury: “Only God knows why he does things and why he chooses the moments for them to happen. But these doors are open for you, because you deserve to continue showing everything you have inside as a competitor,” Antonio Rosique told him, to which he tearfully received the answer: “Obviously it is not the way I want to leave, but Well, you have to accept things as they are. You know that’s how life is… It hits.”
