The national hammer holder, Extremaduran Javier Cienfuegosconditioned by a back pain, seeking to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Gameswhere he will end his career in elite athletics.
“If I can make it to the Olympic event, good, but if I have to retire before I’m happy too.” Well, I have enjoyed the sport in all these years,” explained Cienfuegos in an interview with EFE.
Cienfuegos, who combines his passion for sport and his responsibility as mayor of his native municipality, Montijo (Badajoz), explained that he still has a few months to qualify for Paris 2024, “with many opportunities to exceed 75.6 meter of the national minimum or arrive by ranking”.
“If I can train, I think I can get there.”“But everything depends on my back, which limits my training,” said the Extremaduran athlete for whom, whatever happens, “2024 will be his last year in the elite.”
Cienfuegos participated these days in a meeting in Cáceres between elite athletes of Extremadura and officials of the Regional Government of Extremadura where they presented their proposals to the Regional Executive about the new aid system for high-performance sports in Extremadura.
“I practice through pain; When I have a stronger episode of pain, I have to slow down and when the pain is gone I increase the speed, but in trying to do this, I don’t have to retire in a good way,” he stressed.
All this after a 2023 in which he had to force during the winter and in which he reaffirmed his title as champion of Spain and in the European Cup.
“Everything went well until I got another illness.“Well, my hernia is back and I won’t be able to compete in the summer season,” he said.
The native of Montija is now also the mayor of his town, after the elections in May, in which he obtained an absolute majority in the PP, snatching the baton of command from the socialists, a result that, in his confession, was not he expected. “These are relatively close elections with the possibility of winning, but we are not thinking about an absolute majority,” he admitted.
Source: La Verdad
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