Paula Pareto dazzles every night with his performance in MasterChef Celebrity 3. After officially retiring from Judo at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the athlete was summoned to participate in the cooking cycle and never ceases to amaze with her dishes.
The former professional athlete is a doctor and currently divides her life between Hospital de San Isidro, where she is a traumatology resident, and the recordings of the cooking cycle that is broadcast by Telefe. In his sports career, “La Peque” was world champion in 2015 and winner of a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and of one gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. became the first Argentine woman to be Olympic champion and the first Argentine athlete to win two Olympic medals in individual disciplines.
Due to her sporting achievements and her fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in her role as a doctor, Pareto became the first Argentine to carry the Olympic flag at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, representing the American continent.
After more than 10 years dedicated to Judo, La Peque, as she is popularly known, retired from the sport and gave way to other professional and personal projects. On several occasions, the current MasterChef participant has spoken of the sacrifices she made in her sports and university career. In this sense, the judoka put aside going out with friends, birthdays, family reunions and even postponed sentimental relationships.
“It happened to me that I had to cancel exits. I would arrive until lunch, I would go to the previous one, chat for a while, and at one, two at the latest, I would go home. Out Friday, Saturday. Maybe on Sunday I didn’t train but if I went to bed that day at three, four in the morning because I was going to dance… the whole week that followed was an entity, it didn’t work for studying or training”, told the judoka in the cycle How I Got Here by Infobae.
“Many times I have missed family birthday gatherings and it hurt. He said: ‘Well, I missed this, I missed this, I missed this… now I have to put everything in, kill or die because if I didn’t I missed it without just cause.’ You can win or you can lose, but if I feel that I gave everything, I feel that what I gave up or that I lost, I made it worth it at least “he explained.
Regarding personal and sentimental relationships, Paula explained that this aspect of her life was also crossed by her life as a high-performance athlete and university student. “And at some point there was, but all the couples I’ve always had the problem was that I didn’t have time. And it’s real, that is, I accept it and Today that’s why I’m not with anyone either, because it’s a reality. There was not as much time or there was not the time that the other person required. So for now, nothing, I always get along with the people I was with but you know. In other words, my family, my friends and the partners I have had know what my life is like and sometimes it is more difficult to accept it.“he clarified.
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