The worst fight is with yourself. Close your eyes and see the error sequence repeated endlessly again. Having to open your eyes to stop the movie. May you rest with your eyes open.
Laura García-Caro knows it, for sure. She is a walker, she is 29 years old and almost has a bronze medal. On Friday, in Rome, after 20 kilometers and three meters from the finish line she was almost bitten, without realizing that another runner was on her heels. The scene is terrible: just at the moment when Laura begins to celebrate three meters from the line, she is overtaken. What happens in Laura's head in those milliseconds is instantly painted on her face. Victory, surprise, despair, resignation, defeat.
Team sports or individual sports. Choice is one of the many variables by which as parents we are evaluated. If you choose tennis, athletics or taekwondo for your child, sooner or later, you will always come across the father or mother who will admonish you for the passive: ah, we want him to practice a team sport, for the values, knowing how to share, etc. However, this, which was a tennis weekend for the Roland Garros finals, we were able to witness how extraordinarily difficult and the high abilities required to face alone a challenge for which you have been preparing with great effort. All in a single game. They are nothing without mental strength. What García-Caro needed to overcome those twenty kilometers and be among the top three was titanic. After two years away from her due to a persistent covid that left her exhausted at the slightest effort, she had arrived at the European Championship in Rome with the best record of hers. The harder the fall will be, she says.
In sight, the Paris Games. Only someone trained to overcome her own fears can soar herself. Admiration just for that. The vast majority of us would be nothing without the hug of the team.
*Journalist
The worst fight is with yourself. Close your eyes and see the error sequence repeated endlessly again. Having to open your eyes to stop the movie. May you rest with your eyes open.
Laura García-Caro knows it, for sure. She is a walker, she is 29 years old and almost has a bronze medal. On Friday, in Rome, after 20 kilometers and three meters from the finish line she was almost bitten, without realizing that another runner was on her heels. The scene is terrible: just at the moment when Laura begins to celebrate three meters from the line, she is overtaken. What happens in Laura's head in those milliseconds is instantly painted on her face. Victory, surprise, despair, resignation, defeat.
Team sports or individual sports. Choice is one of the many variables by which as parents we are evaluated. If you choose tennis, athletics or taekwondo for your child, sooner or later, you will always come across the father or mother who will admonish you for the passive: ah, we want him to practice a team sport, for the values, knowing how to share, etc. However, this, which was a tennis weekend for the Roland Garros finals, we were able to witness how extraordinarily difficult and the high abilities required to face alone a challenge for which you have been preparing with great effort. All in a single game. They are nothing without mental strength. What García-Caro needed to overcome those twenty kilometers and be among the top three was titanic. After two years away from her due to a persistent covid that left her exhausted at the slightest effort, she had arrived at the European Championship in Rome with the best record of hers. The harder the fall will be, she says.
In sight, the Paris Games. Only someone trained to overcome her own fears can soar herself. Admiration just for that. The vast majority of us would be nothing without the hug of the team.
*Journalist
