Ana Peleteiro is one of the Spanish athletes with the best sporting projection today. The Galician is having a great moment, since she has just won the bronze medal in triple jump at the World Indoor Athletics Championships, which is taking place in Glasgow, Scotland.
Despite having one of the most brilliant careers in current Spanish sports, Peleteiro has to deal every day with hundreds of insults and humiliations from people who question his origin, his skin color, etc.
In an interview for VOGUE, Peleteiro opened up about what it is like to live being adopted and about everything she has suffered due to people’s hatred and discrimination. “Black whore” and “go to your country” are some of the phrases that are most repeated among the insults and humiliations that have come to affect the athlete.
The 28-year-old is very angry that people attack her for reasons of race or gender and she wanted to make it clear to everyone that she is as Spanish as anyone else, since she was born in Galicia. ”I was born in Galicia on December 2, 1995. My biological mother is white, from A Coruña, and I was, apparently, her second pregnancy,” she explained.
Peleterio has opened up on the channel and has shared with the audience that he discovered his origin after investigating hospital archives: “She gave birth at home when she was 18 years old and left me in the hospital (…) There you can see that it must have been some type of unwanted pregnancy, a very difficult situation and there was no follow-up of the pregnancy. I don’t know. But what I know is that she was a super brave woman, who knew how to recognize that she was not prepared to raise me and that, for so much, I needed someone to raise me for her.
The athlete has also acknowledged that as a child she was rejected for being dark-skinned, but that her parents welcomed her with great joy. ”Adoption is a wonderful thing and I think there are a lot of children in the same situation as me who deserve a second chance,” she explained excitedly.
Peleteiro has shared that she has been defending herself against insults all her life, both in the world of sports and in high school, school… However, she is characterized by her strength and for being an all-terrain woman.
“I always knew how to defend myself very well: with punches. My father told me: ‘Don’t let them eat you.’ And I defended myself with the weapons I had. And at 14 or 15 years old, they are not exactly rhetorical. My father He passed his ESO at the Head of Studies. But proud because I saw that he didn’t let me step on,” he admitted openly.
