Europeans ended up in Barcelona and although it seems that everything is ephemeral and minor, have been a special championship. Our selection has met expectations, despite predictions to a greater number of medals. Spain is the Soccer World Champion and it seems that everything is made in sport is irrelevant. However remember, that the much admired soccer team, now World Champion, has been for many years in dry dock and has always hoped for something better at the next opportunity, whenever it has become to trust the English soccer .
Being in a final of a major athletics championship in any trial is difficult, very difficult, especially when the help and support to the true football is minimal. For many years, since 1984, with Jose Manuel Abascal bronze at the Olympics in Los Angeles, our athletics has been reaping merits and medals in different races, showing a great improvement in progression. Meanwhile, football, remained in hibernation, with an excuse as an argument: "next time ..."
I do not want to detract fulbol selection, so help me God, but if you give a warning to all those media that summarize the performance of our athletes at the European as poor and below expected. It is difficult to be in a final in any sport and that we must recognize and assume if you refuse to acknowledge it.
Nine medals, if you count the Marathon team, is a more than acceptable, considering that at present our athletes strive for medals in specialties where before it was pure science fiction for a English athlete. We have a European Champion 1500, Runner-up in Europe and the World of 3000 obstacles Esuropa Champion 1500 and a Bronze in the same specialty, Marathon Champion of Europe and European Champions Marathon Team, Bronze in 3000 male obstacles We have been finalists in some shots, which is quite commendable given the concentration of these specialties in our country. I think it is a booty to despise, especially when these successes have been producing, I think that athletics, like many other sports, soccer is much better.
Maybe before worrying about the amount of medals won or not Europeans, we should ask whether this level of performance we can keep it in the future. To me, personally, I worry about later generations. All of these athletes who have been to Spain these triumphs are already mostly on the verge of retirement, have met the English athletics very well and very dignified, but the categories are not pushing children hard. If it is true that there may be some that other talent, but the homogeneity of a country athletic talents is not built in isolation and in some years we have enjoyed a certain homogeneity, what does the future hold?.
During the championship I have seen as the assistant to the European public, 70% were foreigners, French, German, English, Portuguese, Dutch, etc, the fair English. Perhaps the tickets were very affordable for the average family could attend to see the competition, but those English who attended at least from my limited vantage point, lacked the requisite knowledge of athletics. Wrong the output of a 800 with a 10000, unaware of the extent of the track, thinking that by 400, to be a gradual release, the athlete of the street outside meter runs less than the interior street, wrong one 800 of 800 hepthalon a specialty and search our Maite Martinez at 800 hepthalon, convinced that in the 4x400 all the posts made by street, etc, etc, etc.
Not to mention the total evacuation of the stadium where athletes have competed with those known to the general public, leaving other support to those with less media coverage, such as a combined event athletes. One can see that the interest is not very large when the public goes only to the final days, leaving the marginal classification days, do think that a great performance by an athlete can only happen in a final?. It is as if only attend the football final, as long as our team is in it, and the other parties have no interest in sports. But that, in football, does not occur.
there no sports culture in our country, is it a problem of education? I do not think you should see a sport simply because of an interest in your country, you have seen the sports event itself, the evolution of the competition as such, everything else is hypocrisy sports if such an adjective could be applied in this way to the noun.
Anyway, I recently finished the European Championship held in Barcelona has been good results, exciting and enlightening for a few surprises for some countries regarding their current status in the sport. I just hope this is not the last European place in our country, despite some shortcomings in the organization at large. It is also true, that an event of this caliber, it must cover a lot of detail and sometimes some unwittingly may flee.
Let's Notable in this European and Notable our selection.
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