With his shoes hanging around his neck after making history for Spanish athletics, the Galician athlete of Ethiopian origin Tariku Novales denounced the situation he was going through.
“If you saw my bank account right now, it would make you laugh, honestly. But well… because I have invested everything in being able to reach this state of form and it is not cheap to prepare for a marathon. It is not cheap,” he said. start, before continuing.
“Everything is funded thanks to the help you give me Adidas -the brand that equips it-, to the sponsorship that I have, because if I don’t I assure you it would be totally impossible. I tell you that the Federation all the time, apart from ignoring me and waiting for me for months to give me an answer, directly told me that I did not meet the standard, so I don’t know, I don’t know . ..”, said Tariku Novales.
And in his opinion, “people are surprised when I tell them that I don’t have any kind of help, that is, outside of Spain they are shocked. I mean, I don’t understand that an athlete of 2h07’00” is no help of any kind. What do I know, I’ll keep quiet now because otherwise…”
Source: La Verdad
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