An important week begins for the canoeist from Talavera de la Reina (Toledo) Paco Cubelosnext Thursday, April 11 and Friday, April 12, the national selective will be held in the Pontillón reservoir (Pontevedra), where a place can be created for Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
An experience he will repeat for the third time in his life, as he represented Spain at the London 2012 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
In an interview with EFE, the athlete declared that he was facing “Looking forward to the first big goal of the year”, although he admits there is pressure because the classification is at stake. Even so, he emphasized that “the work is done and well done.”
Exactly, this Monday the 8th he travels to the Galician city where on Thursday, at 9:30 in the morning, there will be semi-finals of the selected race and at 11:30 the final, all in the category K1 1,000 meters, where he intends to get the place.
On the other hand, on Friday he will compete with a partner in the K2 500 meters category, and on that day it will be known for sure if Cubelos achieved one of the six places that Spain got for the games.
In any case, the paddler added that, if the said goal cannot be achieved this April, he will do it anyway “there’s another chance”, from May 10 to 12, at the World Cupwhich will be held in Hungary.
The reservoir, he added, was a reservoir that, when he was there, he always liked, although he admitted that he had not been there because the last time they were competing “in other places.”
The only conditioning factor may be the weather, because he is not worried about the lack of water in the reservoir “thanks to the rains of the last few weeks”, so he hopes that there will be no storms, that there will be no wind”, because, he put In particular, they are “very exposed.”
In any case, “they are factors to consider, which we cannot train and as they are, I have to compete,” he assumed.
He recognized that for canoeists “Winter is hard because it’s been a long time without competing”. “Because I went to Seville”, where he achieved his fifth national K1 5,000 meters title, “and I opened my mouth, but otherwise, from August 2023 with the World Championship, where I achieved a place for in Spain, in the next Olympic Games Until now, I would not have competed,” he explained.
“There were many months of rest and in two competitions I risked my life,” he emphasized.
That’s why it focuses on the importance of base work before sports events, doing water, gym and running training for six or eight hours.
But that’s not all, there was an impact, because “24 hours of preparationbecause rest, physiotherapist and diet have a big effect.”
In these days before the national selections “we lower the intensity, the training sessions are shorter to eliminate fatigue and come rested” and we begin to “get the feelings of competition,” pointed out Cubelos.
Source: La Verdad
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