THE "CRACKS" BOXING

Members ofnational selection boxingwere concentrated in the centre of high-performance Sierra Nevada when it was declared a state of alarm in Spain and the ensuing confinement.

Long corridors, silence, faint light … “ seemed to the hotel of The Brightness ”, tell us from the Spanish Federation of boxing, which took their 14 members of the national team concentrated over a month. Were practically alone in the rooms, thus fulfilling safety measures.

In the first two weeks of confinement, could not even eat together. Each tray went up to the room. The two weeks, could match in the dining room.

“ in Grenade were only 14 people, along with a few more triathlon sportsmen and swimming. The protocols were so tight that if you forgot something in the room, having to go in one direction, you had to give back almost the whole building to collect things ”, remembers from the federation.

ForRafa Lozano, selecting nationalthese weeks have been difficult to manage: “ because it is a group that is very united, in which only had contact between them. We lives in rooms and only in the training could agree. then the two weeks, we together in the dining room. It has been very strange because we are a small family and it was rare be separated ” specifies the double Olympic medallist.

Lozano has a dual reading of forced shutdown which has affected the entire global sport: “ has been quite tiring, because they were at a time so fantastic, which was in the preolímpico of Heathrow. We have broken the pace of competitions, the state of form … but it is also true that for other has served to recover from injuries, and above all, to gain experience. for example, the girls: have good results, although at the beginning of the year, send a Marruecos for confidence picked disputing competitions. What needs to be drawn is that the group wins international experience. Even for Gabriel and Quiles, that although already have square to Tokio, always take tables in fighting ”, tells Rafa.

Return to Madrid

The “ group ” refers to Lozano Rafa, consisting of 14 boxers, has returned to the CAR of Madrid, its usual place of training. “ also that was important, because everyone pulls all. It Is an individual sport, but the union that have is enormous and motivate between them. ”

“ being in the CAR, with all the group as a whole is a luxury. We have so much excitement in the goals we have marked and still all together is easier to work for them, ” come from the Spanish Federation of Boxing. These objectives referred to entangle are 5 boxers Spanish in the Olympic games of Tokio, for those who are already classified Learning Gabriel (-52 kg) and José Quiles (27,000 kg) ”.

But before thinking to one year view, the sports planning focuses on the “ here and now ”. “ We are to 70% of our pace. Due to security measures, we cannot do battle. Do a kind of imaginary shadow, we technique, defence and against attack by couples … but always remotely ”, account Lozano Rafa, which adds: “ are as the beasts, desiring to go to combat, ” confesses.

The global pandemic has conditioned completely the life of the planet, and sport is not less. Had to adapt to a new reality, but that many athletes assume as a new challenge. Have changed their schedules, its rhythms, the sports planning … what has not changed, nor will, is the daily ritual of greetings between team members. With masks, continue to clash their fists every time you start the training session.

THE SKIN OF WATER

“ aerobic level I had. Also the force, but the sensations of contact with water have lost a bit and it is costing me most recover, ” account from the pool of the CAR of MadridThin maryswimmer, Paralympic villages, double bronze medalist in the past Olympic games of River de Janeiro.

The confinement motivated by the pandemic jumped him “ in the best moment of form, because he was about to compete in spain championships, to validate the minimum brand with which travel to games of Tokio ”, recounts the swimmer zaragozana, alongside fellow workouts of these days – Enhamed Enhamed and Iván Salguero-, misses the objectives and competitions.

“ when closing the residence Blume I returned to my house, and during the first two months, I much bike, rowing machine and strength. When enabled already been travelling to the second residence, I went to a village house, where an inflatable pool installed. Very rudimentary, 3 meters long, I tying with ropes to a tree, but that eventually was a plus because the sensations stroke ”.

To swimmers who train regularly in the pool of the CAR are not has meant an extra effort to adapt to security measures. "Do not share street, because we have enough space, and each has its own fins, bottles of water, the bag … because there is everything with chlorine, disinfects much ”, detailed María, which says that these measures are “ relevant and necessary ”.

"we have returned better than we thought, ” adds, “ and now what is needed is have objectives, upload in motivation, put goals of brands, to continue with the preparation for Tokyo. Without pushing hard to avoid injury, but already thinking in competitions, for when they date ”.

Iván Salguerocoincides with his companion María: “ yes it is true that if you are long without swim. You Lose technical, not agarras well water, as you choose, you will not fine. But after a month, nearly two, which we have been in the CAR, yes I have regained the sensations, ” says the swimmer navarro, who also highlights: “ what I am happier is the commitment, reaching the training schemes … I think so I have not lost much shape ”.

In terms of security measures that must follow necessarily in the CAR, Iván account that “ the principle becomes rare. For example, in the residence Blume, in the dining room, when you have to give the food in the supermarket … at the end you get used because they are logical and reasonable ”.

For his part,Enhamed Enhamedwith nine Paralympics medals, and today highlighted motivational speaker, makes the following reading of the shutdown of the pandemic: “ I was surprised how well I returned, cardio-level and physiology am even better, but I am having re thought about “ why ”. I want to say that I with a lot of illusion, with plenty of desire, but without a specific objective. And it costs ”.

Anecdotally, explains that “ my guide dog does not understand very well the safety distance with the people, and I also passes Reverse. I am blind and I do not see if I am approaching too to persons ”, tells the best swimmer Paralympic Spanish history after Floor Lamps Pear Trees.

José Luis Cowboy, the coach of the group of swimmers with visual impairment, coincides with its three swimmers to point out that the slowdown has affected the sensations: “ the human being is designed to run, jump, climb … but not to swim. So you lose the sensitivity with water jet there is a kind ”.

When asked about the best anecdotes of confinement, recalled: “ There were days in which was very rare to enter the CAR, was desert. There is nobody else, we had the pool for us alone ”.

It also explains that, at times, felt frightened by the situation created: “ whenever touring weights, that this Neo Nazi or rubbers, desinfectábamos. And if we had doubts, we returned to disinfect. For example, to Enhamed, who is blind, gave him the weights in the hand and always I thought to myself “ Do I will be disinfected ”?.

In the early dates of August, the group will rest a few weeks before returning to workouts. Will go to the pool to train for the Paralympic Games de Tokyo 2020, with plans, objectives, quite possibly in October official tournaments … but as always, without using the dressing rooms.

Not because cannot use them, but because they are more than accustomed to be changed in just three minutes to go to the gym, the residence Blume, to the power …

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