In Glasgow, the athletic version of Ana Peleteiro (28) appears, a sort of Renaissance woman, who is the mother of Lúa, and a personality that vindicates femininity and defends skin color, and an influencer and also an occasional model.
Ana Peleteiro remembers that, when she was growing up, she wanted to play tennis because there were two black tennis players “who were amazing.”
(Refers to the Wiliams).
He denounces that in Spain there is no racism, “but classism.”
She claims that her ex-partner had sexually abused her.
She remembers that her biological mother had abandoned her shortly after her birth.
And through all this, she gains recognition: she appears on the Forbes list: in 2022, the statistician considered her one of the 100 most influential women in our country.
Peleteiro can do anything, who trusts in herself just as her husband, the former triple jumper Benjamin Compaoré, trusts in her, and also her coach, the former long jumper Iván Pedroso, and even her training partner, the invincible Yulimar Rojas, people all of whom live and train in Guadalajara, the eventual quarry of jumpers in our country.
When her turn comes, Ana Peleteiro tenses in the hallway. Voice:
-Let’s gooooo!
This is how you win over the Emirates Arena audience.
He hits himself in the chest. With your index, mark the route to follow. It hits again. Now, on the thighs.
Finally it starts and accelerates, and at the mark it projects forward. The first attempt is fair. It remains at 13.93m. But the second time he goes up to 14.67m, and thus he settles in the podium area. No one is going to evict her from there, and even so she grows more: she goes up to 14.75m in the fifth jump and finishes bronze.
(Thea Lafond, from Dominica, wins, she goes up to 15.01m in the second jump and already puts on her sweatshirt and sits on the bench next to the pit and, confident, does not jump anymore; the silver goes to the Cuban Leyanis Pérez, who stays at 14.90m and is never happy, always whines and complains, things have not turned out as expected).
Peleteiro is something else, the years go by and he continues there, he lasts forever: he already has two bronzes in the Indoor World Championships, and three European podiums, and the jewel in the crown, the bronze from the Tokyo Games.
And on Sunday morning, just as he had done in Tokyo two and a half years ago, he rescues Spanish athletics, a pupa in this World Cup in Glasgow, because in recent days it has suffered the painful injury of María Vicente, the 10th woman. who ruptures his Achilles tendon and loses everything, including his presence in the Paris Games, and also the disqualification of Asier Martínez, the prodigious hurdler who was competing for the medals in the 60 hurdles and cannot even compete in the final (the another great Spanish hurdler, Quique Llopis, finishes fourth).
