Ana Peleteiro, The European triple jump champion, announced this Wednesday that the decision to change coaches and leave the working group he leads Ivan Pedroso This is due to the need to “fulfill a dream” and “reconcile” family life with her daughter and her husband, Benjamin Compaoréwho will now be their coach, from Ribeira, the Galician town where they will move and where they will live and train.
The Spanish athlete announced last week that he has decided to change his coach and separate his professional path from Ivan Pedroso in Guadalajara. The main reason is to “return home” after thirteen years and return to Ribeira, where he wants to raise his daughter Lúa.
“My relationship with Ivan is in perfect condition. After all this, seeing the support he has given me and the understanding he has, if it is scratched, everything is lost. He told me that we are only working together but Ivan’s friendship relationship will be eternal. He told me ‘you are a warrior and I am sure you will take advantage of this change’ that someone like him, who has been a champion of all, has no kind of ego and honest with me and shares it says a lot “My fear is to receive a rejection from him because my personal relationship with him is more important than sports, but there is no such thing,” said Peleteiro, in a press conference.
“My relationship with my group is better than ever. It was difficult for me to accept that I can no longer follow the same plans as before becoming a mother. They were a little sad. It was sad to part ways, but in the championships that we will continue together,” he commented on the Galician athlete, who revealed that the world champion, the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, also from the Guadalajara group, was left “sad.”
“Yuli didn’t expect it because since he hasn’t been in the group for a few months, he doesn’t know how I feel. I learned a lot from him,” she declared.
Ana Peleteiro she revealed that she had been thinking about this decision since she gave birth in December 2022. “I found myself alone in Guadalajarawith Benjamin, having to make a thousand maneuvers to work and being a mother away from home becomes more complicated. “This time, I’m confusing the feeling with my mental coach’s work so it doesn’t affect me.”
“I left the Olympic Games in Paris sad. I was in a good mood, but I didn’t get what I wanted. That night of the Games, because I was sad, my emotions exploded, and I started thinking about why my best version hasn’t come out yet because I called at four or five in the morning Gabrielamy social media representative. He told me that knowing me, when I announce something, it is because the decision has been made,” he commented.
“It was very difficult for me to make decisions, but when I made them I went straight. I talked about it with my family, my older cousin and Benjamin. Everyone understood me and when I said the reason why they supported me. Since then I was kind and sad, I said that I would let a month pass that I had not lived in Ribeira for many years and I checked what I needed,” he said.
“It was a difficult month of so much hatred through social networks, where I was judged so much, that in Ribeira I felt protected. Every day I was more comfortable and that’s how it came back. It was a long process, but I’m also proud of how I did it,” she said.
Ana Peleteiro made it “clear” that the decision to make this change of direction and life was “personal” and that among her goals was to “create a high-level working group, but starting from the base.”
“Motherhood is a complex and complicated subject, especially when you’re away from family. Balancing things is complicated and especially when you’re traveling and the schedules are crazy. I see Lúa growing up in an environment that when she dreamed of becoming a mother. “I dreamed of seeing my daughter in an environment like I had when I was little and I’m not here. I feel sad every day. When I want to mislead this feeling. it’s inside me and every day it weighs more on me,” wakefulness.
“After thirteen years, my heart asked me to return to my refuge, that isto Galicia, and now my coach will be Benjamin, my husband and life partner. This is a project I offered him. I want to clarify. He never offered it to me. “I want to avoid the personal in the professional and I explained this to him after Paris,” he commented.
“The Games, for the athletes, leave a big void and there is a period of calm and thinking about what you want to do for the next cycle. It is suitable and best for our family,” said Ana Peleteiro, who praised her teammate’s virtues as a coach.
“He has been combining being an athlete and a coach for many years. Although sport only shines when we win titles and break records, athletics is more than that. You can be a great coach, but you can’t always get great talents to conquer things. I In 2016 I had no desire to conquer anything and, after being with Ivan, I had a different desire is highly committed and has a view on the triple jump similar to mine and Ivan’s since then I saw him in his coaching role inspired me with confidence and curiosity,” he stressed.
“My body and my head ask me new things. I’ve been doing athletics since I was five years old, triple jump since I was twelve and with Ivan for eight years. When you know the training sessions from Monday to Saturday in the heart there are times when your head asks you for something new “The athlete is not only a machine, but there is also a mental factor that can be affected by that work,” he said.
“I want to improve the technical aspects that have not been possible in previous years for various reasons. Before Tokyo, I improved my technique a bit, a small detail, thanks to Teddy Tamgho. It is a correction that Iván kept trying to explain to me and I didn’t flow,” he said.
“I understand that this decision causes doubts and mistrust because my duo works with Ivan, it’s clear. I consider it as the fact that people want to continue to see me win and that’s the best gift they can give me. I’m motivated to train with my training group “Representing Spain is the greatest gift and it’s the moment where I feel the most honor. I will continue to fight to continue doing this,” he said.
“What I want to make clear is that I will not go to Paris and I will not go with the two cities. If I go to the two cities, it will be between Ribeira and Madrid. I will only go to Paris to get my children of wife, But he often makes such a trip. I have never, ever, talked to the French federation about training there to improve and achieve the goals once and for all,” he concluded
Source: La Verdad
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