Debutant Casabuena, the best of the three Spanish teams, far from the finals

Spanish women’s artistic gymnastics has fixed its participation in Games in Paris including the debutant’s 35th place Laura Casabuena36th of Alba Petisco and the 45th of Ana Perezthey are all far from the Olympic finals.

The three were victims of a certain insecurity throughout the competition and were left with their goal of entering the individual final of the 24 best, although Casabuena, thanks to the discards due to the rule of a maximum of two finalists per country , is a step away from being, at least, a reserve.

The floor, the device preferred by the Spaniards, did not give them a very good return on this occasion.

Casabuena deftly defends all her struggles with the chords of Madonna’s ‘Material Girl’ (13,033). Ana Pérez, with more hazards and falls, scored 12.866. Petisco, who had a great performance, fell to a reception and stayed with 11,800 after staging one of the most expressive floors of the day.

Before they started the problems at the bar. Casabuena fell (12.166) and Pérez fell, who also fell to the mat after his initial double backflip (11.800). Only Petisco stayed on the bar, struggling (12.633).

In jumping they performed their Yurchenkos with a pirouette (piroueta and a half Petisco), a jump to be sure. And they closed asymmetrically, with no other purpose than to enjoy the farewell.

The Olympic experience in Paris ended with tears and a “slightly bittersweet” feeling, in the words of Pérez, who noted that “it hurts to work so hard and lose everything in a few seconds.

In Sevillian’s case, his failure at the bar once he started threw him off a bit, he said.

“It’s something I didn’t expect, the athlete doesn’t train to fail, he trains to succeed and for me, personally, it had an effect,” he admitted.

With the same feeling of anxiety, his partner Petisco left, with whom he had his second Olympic Games, something “brutal and you always want to live and live again no matter what,” in his case “with more maturity in the device” and “in the heat of the public” after debuting at Tokyo 2020.

Nervousness, added Casabuena, did not let “what should come out” in his performance, but the “brutal” memory of Paris 2024, where he competed with high-level athletes such as the Brazilian women who they admire, no. one will remember.

The students of Lucia Guisado They bid farewell to the Games on the very day of their premiere. Spanish artistic gymnastics only has the trump card of Ray Zapata, who will compete again on Saturday in the floor final, aiming to add a second medal after the silver in Tokyo. In the classification he got the third best grade.