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

Triathlete Javier Gómez Noya, European, world and World Cup champion, admitted that the Olympic medal is the only prestigious one missing from his extensive record and that he will try to get it in the next London Games to remove the thorn in his side. Beijing. “I've only had one chance at the Games. In Athens I think I had the level to be there and they left me out of the team. I have lived a few and I have come fourth. Taking into account the record a little, it is the medal that I am missing and the one that 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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