Catalan swimmer Mireia Belmonte (UCA Fuensanta) has assure today that with a view to the Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro she does not have “fear of anybody”, neither to the Hungarian Katinka Hosszu, that a few days ago snatched her the world record of 400 meters styles in short swimming pool.
Before going for a swim in the Aquarium of Barcelona, where she has recorded a commercial for one of her sponsors, the sportswoman of Badalona (Barcelona) has attended to the media to value a course that she faces with a lot of hopes.
“This year I am not afraid of anybody. It is necessary to go all out; the goal is very clear. I will try to do as much as posible to leave the fears behind and to focus on the really important things”, has told Belmonte when being asked about the level of her rivals at the Olympic appointment.
And the fact is that the preparation of the course is marked by the celebration of the Olympic Games, where she entrusts to achieve, finally, the gold that resists her.
For it, the calendar is thought so that the badalonesa reaches the hundred percent for the next August.
At the moment, the first stop will be the Amsterdam Swim Cup, in which she has her first official competition in long swimming pool after her shoulders injury that impeded her from taking part in the World cups of Kazán.
“Tomorrow we are traveling to Amsterdam. We have to see how I am doing in a 50 meters swimming pool and I hope to see my position. I am in load phase, but nevertheless it will be good to approach the minims and to test a little how I am regard to the others”, she has told.
After this appointment, Belmonte will make a concentration in Pretoria (South Africa) until January, moment in which she will return to the old continent to dispute the Euro-Meet of Luxembourg.
Neither in her way to Rio de Janeiro will be missing a concentration of approximately 20 days in Sierra Nevada (Granada) before the Championships of Spain, that will take place in March.
“In Sierra Nevada we do ski, work in a specific way the force with biomechanics and later we recover better”, she has pointed out when being asked about the advantages of training to more than 2.000 meters high.
After her shoulders injury, Mireia also works two times a week with a physiotherapist who helps her to improve the musculature of the affected area.
“She tells to me everything is going well and that what only lacks is to keep on working so that the muscle does not relapse again”, has pointed out Belmonte, who has added that “the only thikng missing is to keep on working to improve the marks” and to forget the events happended a few months ago.
In this sense, she has admitted that last summer “was very difficult to see the World cups on television”, something that, nevertheless, she seems to have forgotten.
“I have had to recover myself physically and mentally. I believe that from the first day I have been doing my best, with the clear goal and what I attempt is to enjoy everything what I do, to enjoy it”, she has concluded.
I don’t have “fear of anybody”