Runner Laura Galván tried everything to get her ticket to the final of the 5000 meters at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, but she didn’t succeed. The Mexican was eliminated from the competition after finishing 11th in her qualifying heat.with a time of 15:05.20. The fact that he had only participated in one race diminished the spirit of the athletewho confessed that for the next Olympic cycle he will seek his pass in the Marathon event.
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“I’m going to do the marathon. The track was great, I think what I did, what I’ve done, was good. But the level is very tough, it’s very difficult. Discipline, everything that is occupied, a lot of resources that you occupy for everything. To eat well, to go on trips, to camp. It’s a lot of work. So I think the track is enough. Now I’m looking for the marathon, a different distance. I’m excited, many challenges that I haven’t done.“I would like to go slowly. I have four years to develop the distance,” said the runner.
Laura expressed her disappointment at not being able to advance to the final. The runner prepared for this race for nine monthsHowever, the weather conditions, with high humidity, were a difficult challenge.
“I did everything I could in there. It was a really crazy race, it was fast, slow, fast, slow. The last lap was already gone, no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t stay in the group, I was already quite far away from the girls. and I didn’t make it with them, but the truth is I thought I had run faster. And the time seems high to me, I don’t think I’m in that sporting shape and I think it was the form of the race. Maybe I felt very good, But yes, with those changes I think that maybe my legs suffered there.“, said.
“It is very difficult because it takes me a year to get into this sporting form. It takes months of work, so to come and Running once after spending nine months training doesn’t seem fair to me for all the work one puts in.. So the goal of running, well, the ideal was to have been in the final.”
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What is missing for Mexican athletes to make it big in the Olympic Games, according to Laura Galván?
With the experience of having participated in two Olympic Games, Laura Galván pointed out part of what the Mexican athlete lacks to transcend in these competitions.
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“You have to have a good plan with the athlete and the coach. And that plan requires many things. And in this case, first of all, it is all that dedication. What do the athlete and the coach want? And then the resource. You use a lot of resources to be able to develop the planning you want.“, said.
