The Montijano athlete Javier Cienfuegos He was optimistic and hopes to return to the hammer throwing competition in the coming winter season, despite not knowing if he will arrive in “top condition” due to the problems he is having with his back, and he assured that from 2024, Olympic. year, you will consider phasing out.
“I will not look further than 2024 for health reasons, seeing how my back is. For some games you have to push a lot, push your body to the limit, and now it is touched”, he exposed in EFE statements.
Cienfuegos participated this Tuesday in Cáceres in a meeting of high-performance athletes from Extremadura, with scholarships from the Fundación Jóvenes y Deportes de la Junta de Extremadura, with the athlete alvaro martinthe climber Alberto Ginesthe canoeists Estefanía Fernández and Juan Antonio Vallethe weightlifter Loida Zabala and the triathlete Miriam Casillas.
“For now, I think I will compete, but that doesn’t mean that in a month I will touch my back again and have to say goodbye. I want to be optimistic, do this season, next year try to go to the games and then do the hammer throw in a softer way”, assured the athlete from Extremadura.
So, he pointed out that he wants to compete “with guarantees, giving the maximum possible” because, even if he is not sick, his back is not one hundred percent.
Cienfuegos, 33, hopes to reach the Spanish championship in February and the European Winter Cup in March 2023, an election year in which he still does not know if he will accompany his political work, something he wants to do “if there’s a chance. get up.” case” after reaching the Assembly of Extremadura this last legislature.
“It does not depend on me, the issue of the lists is Maria-Guardiola– who is in charge and will tell us”, he revealed about his role in the regional elections in May with the PP, after making sure that they have “months of a lot of work” left.
For Montijano, what is certain is that he will continue to enjoy athletics better after Paris 2024, without doing “the nonsense that we usually do” because “then you have to continue living, with 50 years before your life , and you have to have quality of life.”
Regarding his final year in competition, where pain from a hernia caused him to compete in discomfort at the end of the season, Cienfuegos earned a grade of “7.5 or 8” because “we need little things , but I’m happy. for another year competing”.
Among these things is the 43 centimeters that separated him from the final of the World Cup in Oregon (United States), by taking a mark of 74.25 meters, not enough to qualify and “have a round season.”
“In the end, everyone is fighting, the level of hammer throwing in recent years has increased a lot around the world, it’s nice to see many throwers throwing more than 80 meters and we are fighting,” he said.
Regarding the evolution of his discomfort, he said that he is currently evaluating “every day, week by week”, in addition to making sure that he wants to “compete in the winter, but the back will rule in the end”, he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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