Gómez Noya: «When they crush you, there is no more to say»
The Galician Javier Gómez NoyaGómez Noya, who finished third in the World Championships in Madrid, behind brothers Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee, said he gave "his best," but that "they were superior." "When they crush you, there's nothing more to say. People focus more on the run. But the pace we maintained on the bike was incredible. And for them to then be able to run at that level is something you can only congratulate them on," explained Gómez Noya.
«The podium is not bad either when you measure yourself against someone like that. "When you give everything and there are two who have been stronger than you, the only thing you can do is congratulate them and keep working," she said. «I didn't have a great day running, but it is true that we worked a lot on the bike. The ones who pulled the most of the group, by far, were the Brownleees and I. “We managed to open a gap and cut off many important rivals,” said the double world champion.
«When you work so much, you make such a great effort and there are two guys who run faster than you and the rest you can't blame yourself for anything. Today I gave the best I had, but the Brownlee were much superior," explained Gómez Noya, whose main objective this year is the European Championship that will be held at the end of the month in Pontevedra, where he resides.
«I hope to be a little better in three weeks. They will be there again and I'm sure they will be very strong again, but each race is a different race. And being aware that when they are at their best it is very difficult to beat them, it is also true that I have managed to do it at times," he noted.
«I continue to work hard and simply seek to give the best of myself. If then there are two that go faster than you, in the end you can't do much," declared the man from Ferrol, born in Basel (Switzerland) 28 years ago, who did admit that he and the British brothers are one step ahead of the others. .
"Yeah. Taking into account how we work on the bike, with people in our group who were riding and still were not able to run at our level, that says a lot about the level we have. The two of them, first; and then, me », she said.
«I run on the attack, I don't like to run on the defensive. And if there is a cut ahead, we get rid of many rivals. There were very good runners who were cut off. And if they (the Brownlee) show their face, I will show their face," he stated.
«Another thing is that they didn't shoot and I did. Then you change the strategy. But when they work the same as you, you have to pull. (German Olympic champion Jan) Frodeno, for example, didn't shoot. But not because he was hidden. He didn't shoot because he couldn't. "He was later seen running that he couldn't take it anymore," Gómez Noya concluded.
Fuente: La Voz de Galicia
