2023-11-08 02:06:27
When everything seemed gold in Chilean athletics following Santiago 2023, the bomb exploded. Last monday, Chick Cardoch reported that they left her out of the post 4×400 women of the Pan American Games.
The national athlete assured that she arrived at the test with the third best time nationally and that he had to be part of the team of athletes who would seek to get among the first places, but who, inexplicably, They left her and Berdine Castillo outside (fourth best brand).
“The relay coach, without warning anything, and two hours before running, decides to take us out and Berdine Castillo and put the two reserves,” Cardoch said in a statement.
He added that “I was not given any compelling, concrete reason. I was only told that ‘I saw the others better’, an excuse or argument that in an objective sport like athletics lacks any basis,” added the member of Team Chile.
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Berdine Castillo targets Martina Weil’s mother
As the hours passed, the controversy took on another color. This Tuesday, Berdine Castillo reinforced Cardoc’s complainthy aimed at the relay coach, Marcelo Gajardo and once morest Martina Weil’s mother, Ximena Restrepo.
“Despite the merits demonstrated on the track and objectively being in the best year of my sports career, the days before the Pan American Games I began to be progressively harassed by some teammates and the coach in charge of coordinating the relay, Mr. Marcelo Gajardo,” he indicated.
He added that “we had earned the right on the track, but Mr. Gajardo considered that our merits, although objectively superior, had less value than those of our companions. athletes who They were not able to say a single word. in our favor,” said the national athlete.
In her writing, Castillo assures that following conversations, both were reinstated to the team, but that the rest of her teammates did not speak to her: “there were colleagues who threatened to leave the team and they gave me the silent treatment. In fact, I asked the teammates questions and they refused to speak to me during the warm-up.” At that point, Cardoch had permanently withdrawn from the test.
Racist, classist and elitist insults
“Personally I was rebuked in multiple wayseven reaching insults that are impossible not to link with racism, classism, elitism and other expressions of discrimination“Castillo said, indicating that people outside the team and relatives of the other members shouted and insulted the federation’s technical team.
That was where he pointed directly at Martin Weil’s mother: “among the people who showed up on the track the vice president of World Athletics was there, Mrs. Ximena Restrepowho without considering the symbolic weight of his presence and his words, He shouted and insulted technicians of the Chilean Federationloudly pointing out my name and questioning my presence on the team. He demanded and pressured at all times, without any right or power, that they would remove me from the 4×400 relay. There are multiple witnesses to these events,” he assured.
Finally, in that race of the women’s 4×400 relay the Chileans competed Martina Wiel, Berdine Castillo, Fernanda Mackenna and Stephanie Saavedrawho came in last place.
The networks reacted
After the complaints from Cardoch and Castillo, the gaze turned once morest Martina Weil. The brand new gold medalist in the 400 meter dash in Santiago 2023 Now he is the victim of accusations for his own words.
After finishing second in the 4×100 meters and following the criticism that Isidora Jiménez had received in the previousWeil pointed out once morest the critics: “I hope this is enough for all those people who are speaking, that they realize that the Isi has it left, that the Isi is ours, that it is not alone and that If they mess with the Isi, they mess with complete athletics“He said that day.
Words that, as expressed by Castillo, they would not be like that and that they would only have aimed at exclusive support for Jiménez, and not for Berdine and Poulette Cardoch.
Berdine Castillo’s statement
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