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The race of Mireia Belmonte he is not going through his best moments. Many think that his years of glory are over, that youth took them away and that he will never be able to be upstairs again, fighting with the stars, despite the fact that in Tokyo he showed that his class is infinite and that on a day of grace he can embarrass anyone. However, his biggest problem at the moment is uncertainty and not knowing what will happen in his near future.
Once the Olympic Games held in 2021, he has not yet resumed his preparation for new goals, and is that he is in a kind of sports limbo that keeps his career in the air. There are many unknowns that lie ahead, since he does not know when he will be able to return to training, where he will do it and even with whom he will do it.
All these unanswered questions are due to his break with the San Cugat High Performance Center, the place where he has been preparing in the last years of his sports career. Your departure from the facilities dependent on the Higher Sports Council It is due to the departure of the one who has been his coach since 2010, Fred Vergnoux.
Fred Vergnoux and Mireia Belmonte
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The French coach was in charge of the group that trained in the CAR of San Cugat, but now a new project has begun in the Metropole of Las Palmas, where he will continue his career in what has been a great loss for the center. Mireia, like the majority of athletes who were under Fred’s training, have decided not to renew their scholarships in San Cugat and to go in search of other centers. Although many have already been accommodated in other clubs, Mireia still has not made a decision about her future.
The queen of Spanish swimming wanted to take time to make the right decisions, rest, clear her mind and draw up a plan for the return to demanding training. As she herself stated a few days ago, she is still in talks with her former coach and has not yet decided anything about her future, so she remains in the same unknown as all her followers.
The difficult injury
Without a center and without a coach, the truth is that Mireia’s situation at the moment is not easy. In addition, she comes from the last few years that have been especially difficult for her and in which she has not been able to demonstrate her full potential. His biggest problem in recent months, especially in the Olympic preparation, is the complicated injury that drags his shoulders chronically and that has forced him to perform below his level and arrive much fairer in preparation than he would. I would like.
Other doubts about his future is whether he will be able to perform at the same level as before this complicated injury appeared so persistently and intensely. In fact, this shoulder ailment has come to put his sports career at risk on his way to Tokyo 2020, but finally it seems to have passed the most critical moments and is already looking ahead.
Mireia Belmonte, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
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Mireia herself has assured on more than one occasion that her last year has been especially difficult, probably the most of her career, and that is why she now needs this break to find some calm and stability. Surely this time without squeezing himself to the fullest, until he returns to find a center and a coach who are at his level, they will come in handy to improve the state of his joints and to be able to extend his career as is his intention. Dreams and Challenges has several in mind.
Tokyo, shadows or lights
The last great appearance of Mireia Belmonte have been the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, those who made themselves wait for 5 years and those that the swimmer of Badalona he did not arrive in his best form to validate his great successes of the past. In fact, her results were not particularly positive, although she values them in a special way because she knows from where she has had to fight to reach them.
His best test was the 400 meters styles in which he was at the gates of the medals. A fourth place that for her tasted like glory, since it allowed her to be very close to the fight for metals with the best in the world despite having spent a few complicated months due to the injuries that had caused her to arrive in poor shape until the competitions.
Mireia Belmonte, at the Olympic Games
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What for many was a disappointing result because she could not bring any metal to the Spanish medal table, for her it turned out to be a breath of fresh air and an injection of morale and confidence. Her class, her talent and her abilities had allowed her to be among the best in the world, fighting for a bronze, despite having arrived at the Olympic event in poor condition. They were not much less shadows what she saw in Tokyo, but a light that illuminates her future and that convinces her that she can still be there, as in her best moments.
For her, the fact of being able to be in the final was already a great objective accomplished and when she saw that she was up to the last meters a few centimeters from having hung a new Olympic medal, she described her result as the best she could have had. And with that illusion, she now looks to the future after Tokyo has been a moral blow that she herself did not expect.
The dream of Paris
These Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been so good for her that whoever was the standard-bearer for this great event, along with another legend such as Saul Craviotto, you are already thinking about extending your sporting career. It has been what he achieved in that Japanese pool that has pushed him to take his career a little further and think about following goals, always with an eye on Paris 2024.
At 31 years old, Mireia looks on the rope for a while and is fully confident of being able to reach the first European Olympic Games since London 2012 with real possibilities to continue fighting for good results and for medals. She will arrive at the Parisian appointment at the age of 34, a considerable age, but which is not a brake or a problem for her.
Mireia Belmonte leads the Spanish expedition in the opening parade of the Olympic Games
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He affirms that he does have to take it easy, since there is a lot of time left and that the preparation will be long. That is why you are not in a hurry to decide your future and to start training intensively, because the deadlines will be set later. In addition, he has already shown at other times in his career that he is capable of adapting very quickly to effort and that it takes relatively little time to reach a very high point in his form.
Challenges lie ahead to stay motivated. It remains to be seen if he fights for them under the baton of Fred Vergnoux or if he does so by totally changing his sporting life, but what is clear is that Mireia hopes to get to Paris and get the most out of it, something that he already did in Tokyo to despite being very depleted. Age takes its toll and her physique is no longer what it was due to injuries, but for something she is the queen of swimming in Spain.
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