The unpublished pass to Olympic Games What Jane Valencia got, which made her the first Mexican to get her pass to the summer jousting wrestling match, is just the last episode of the difficulties she had to deal with to achieve a goal that had been denied her twice.
He was out of the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games; in this last cycle, she had to endure being disadvantaged, to say the least, by a former director of the Mexican Federation of Associated Fights, whose name she prefers not to mention.
“A fellow man and I had the same achievements. We both aspired to a sports scholarship“Valencia tells EL UNIVERSAL Sports. “But the federative only processed his. His excuse was that I was younger, but the reality is that he was able to apply for both scholarships“
He did not give up, despite the bitter drink. In 2017 he had his daughter, a year later he could not participate in the Barranquilla Central American Games for an injury; He also could not attend the Pan American Games in Lima, because he barely started training. She made it to the Ottawa Olympic Qualification without medals in the Olympic cycle and, despite everything, she was able to keep the title beating the world champion: Canadian Linda Morais.
“I do not want to be recognized as the first Mexican to classify in the fight in the Games, but I do want this to help to break down the barriers so that other girls do not suffer what I suffered“, He says.
The wrestler from Jalisco hints that the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 They will be the last competition of his career, to which he hopes to arrive well prepared. She lives and trains in a Pennsylvania town at an all-male gym, which made an exception to let her train.
“I had no choice but to train with them. In the end it was positive. Thanks to this I increased my strength and level in the fight to get my pass to Tokyo2020“, He says.
Her long-term goals are in medicine, a career in which she has a degree. You are close to finishing the process to have your medical license to exercise it formally.
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