Javier Gómez Noya'The Olympic medal is what I need to win'

triathlete Javier Gómez NoyaThe European, world, and World Cup champion admitted that an Olympic medal is the only prestigious one missing from his extensive list of achievements and that he will try to win it at the upcoming London Games to avenge his disappointment in Beijing. “I’ve only had one opportunity at the Games. In Athens, I think I had the level to be there, but they left me off the team. I’ve been to the Games once and finished fourth. Looking at my record, it’s definitely the medal I’m missing and the one I would love to win,” he said.

Gómez Noya (Basel, 1983) almost won the Olympic medal in Beijing 2008, when poor digestion of a gel and discomfort in his Achilles tendon relegated him to fourth place, despite the fact that he was the great favorite in all the polls.

“Those who count medals put it as a sure prize. You learn from everything. From the Olympic experience I learned not to stress too much in preparation, because the body has a limit. If you don't respect the breaks, it ends up breaking, like it happened to me in Beijing, and you end up getting injured,” she explained. In London he will have a second opportunity to endorse in the Games his extensive background in the triathlon discipline, where he has won everything, although, cautious, he prefers not to get wet and affirms that his objective is to give his best. itself. “I sign to give the maximum of my performance. Maybe you will finish fifth doing the race of your life, but I wouldn't like to be third having the level to finish first. What you have to try to do is not make mistakes that day,” he stressed.

In front of him will mainly be the Brownlee brothers: “Without a doubt the greatest rivals are the two of them. We have seen in recent years that they have a very high level.”

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