The Balearic Marcher Marc Tur will see the next European Athletics Championships Munich, Germany)where he will compete at a distance of 35 kilometers, as “an opportunity”, according to Efe, after being disqualified from the recent world championship in Eugene (USA).
Tur, who was on the verge of the podium at the last Olympic Games in Tokyo -he finished in fourth place-, is preparing for the continental event, with the other members of the training group he leads. Joseph Antonio Quintanaincluding international ones Laura Garcia Caro, Raquel Garcia and Diego Garciaat the High Performance Center (CAR) in León.
The Ibizan athlete believes that his disqualification from the World Cup can “play in his favor, because he does not have to express all his potential, so he can get a certain freshness against other rivals”, although he knows the difficulty that comes with it. again fight for the podium
The main concern for Quintana’s disciple is to adapt to the new distance, when coming down from the 50-kilometer test in which he participated in the Tokyo Games.
“Most of the rivals who stood in the world championship are walkers who climbed from 20 kilometers and not the other way around, as in my case, so everyone needs the adaptation process necessary to be competitive again in this. new distance.”, he assured.
In fact, Marc Tur is convinced that he can also be “competitive” at 35 kilometers, although he will have to change the strategy he used in the longer distance, perhaps more conservatively, as now he has to keep up with a more intense pace of his rivals.
Source: La Verdad
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