BMX colombiano en la Cima: Especial Olímpico Paris 2024

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Witer Shrady. The wait is over. The bikes were painted with the colors

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of the flags. The sweaters and
uniforms have the final stitches. The land

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of the state track is found in
Ibestlinés. It' s perfectly straightened.

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The asphalt of the peraltes carefully agglomerate. The metals of the medals shine.

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After the white line that announces the
winners, hundreds were the dream, but

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only forty- eight managed the feat
to arrive in Paris, after three years

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of Olympic cycle, in which they
had to live it all raffling from s

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and off the track, obstacles and
opponents, a long- breathed race in

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which there were losses, falls,
fractures, injuries and many tears, where

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in Paris two thousand twenty- four
women and twenty- four men arrive Twenty

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- one different nationalities will climb up
to the nine- metre partyer to face

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elbow to elbow, flying on the
dirt track, facing each jump, pedaling

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with their souls to carry their flag, their country to the highest. Only

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eight women and eight men will arrive
at the grand finale that will deliver the

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long- awaited Olympic medals, warriors
and warriors of flesh and bone, men

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and women who have the gift of
flying on their bicycles, floating on a

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sandy track, looking with their front
wheel for the fine white line hello.

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My name is Alejo Vargas and this
is a very special episode. It is

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a tribute to which for us is
the most beautiful sport. Cheerful colorful and

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intense of the world our beloved b
m X. This episode is a Podway

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Podcast Network production, written by Eric
Kin and recorded on White Lemon Studios Rider

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Ponte. Commodus adjusts the volume of
your hearing aids that we will enjoy before

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the matcher falls in Paris two thousand
twenty- four. BMX is a young

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sport. Its beginnings were in the
1960s and that it has become an Olympic

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sport with only forty years of history
is all achievement. It' s a

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prize to those kids who started playing
racing with their bikes on sand ramp,

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challenging gravity and trying to go faster
and faster. They managed to organize races,

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then tournaments championships, league federations.
Then came the world championships and the

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recognition of the International Cyclistic Union.
The UZI in Beijing two thousand eight had

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its great presentation as a new sport, taking all the attention and delivering the

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first Olympic medals for a sport that
so far was unknown to many. Or,

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well, he was tensor Sots Wegi. I exist mararegro shiwo EU.

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In the world circuit there were few
women at the elite level, so some

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cyclomontañistas and down rows were encouraged to
complete the Olympic cycle, qualify and seek

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a medal. The podium went to
the United States and France. The bronze

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went to Jill Kitner, the renowned
American mountaineer, the Ettia Lecorguillé, took

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the silver and gold hung it in
Carolina Chawson experienced Dawn Gilista and multiple world

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champion in that sport. In men, things went at a different price.

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The world circuit was well established.
However, there were athletes who made the

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jump from the mountaineering cycle and for
Cross to the bm X, such as

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the Czech mical procoop or Jared Graves
of Australia, who even made the final

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on board their jetti specially designed for
the Olympic BYU competition. The podium went

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to the United States and Latvia.
The Americans of great trajectory. Donny Robinson

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and Mike Dave take the bronze and
silver respectively, while the gold was reserved

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for a young man who until that
time was little known, even though he

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came from crowning world champion Marys Strombers, who on that day would begin to

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write his great story. The competition
in Beijin stole everyone' s attention.

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The press praised the showiness and action
of the BMX. The public did not

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stop applauding the sports community. He
undoubtedly received the BMX very well, which

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opened the door for new disciplines.
Latin Americans were represented with seven Riders from

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Argentina, Christian Becerine and Ramiro Marino
from Ecuador, Emilio Falla from Venezuela,

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Jonathan el Mosquito Suárez. These three
were sometimes past talking to us here on

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the podcast Let' s remember.
It was something incredible and I, as

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I mean, it came out to
tears because they were like, it'

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s seeing a boy realize a dream
that I tell him. I don'

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t know how many more of those
moments you' ll have. But of

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that, I say, he'
s one of the most important people I

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' ve ever seen and could witness
there. Not because I have other effects

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that have had great achievements, but
I can' t be there because I

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see it from afar. So everyone
farts to be there, I say,

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I mean, I guess it happens
to all the jobs that are there always

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in all their careers. I don' t mean, pride is one'

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s feeling and happiness. So it' s been something I think that'

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s what I told you that many
times for us athletes, when we'

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re so involved in the sport and
when we turn the page, we don

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' t have this adrenaline or this
thing that we don' t know what

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' s going to happen. And
what I felt that day let' s

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say is like you still keep alive
being a coach for one our guys who

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are in high performance. And everything
keeps you as yet because I have an

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indescribable experience, because apart it'
s a lot of work and things that

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you may not have done and you
want to correct so that they don'

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t make mistakes, as maybe you
were wrong at some point in your sports

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career. Then guide them from the
topic of how to get sponsorships, what

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to do where to train, and
not only with training, but many times

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how to guide them in the mental
part and how the challenges they will encounter

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day by day in their sports career
in Colombia. Sergio Nachos al Azar,

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Augusto tin Castro and Andrés Jiménez,
who managed to qualify for the final and

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obtain a valuable fourth place with their
respective Olympic diploma. And in the rostrum,

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at the age of sixteen, there
was a girl who had won everything

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so far and who had taken her
to Beijing to learn about the atmosphere of

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an Olympic Games. If that girl
was Mariana Pajón, Beijine opened a new

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spectrum in the BMX, giving her
a new level of sport. Now it

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wasn' t enough to be the
fastest on the track on the bike.

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Both physical and mental training would become
part of the ideal wrightr. The thousandths,

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millimetres and chronometers would enter the game
in search of precision and perfection.

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It was not long before Colombia became
the protagonist of the Olympic bm X,

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not only with its runners, but
also its technical body would shine with its

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own light, as is the case
of Germán Medina, who, after obtaining

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six Olympic medals as a Colombia picker, was signed by the United States by

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team and Usai. Medina was also
talking to us in previous episodes and commented,

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from his coaching perspective, on the
characteristics, aptitudes and qualities that a

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rider who aspires to be Olympic should
have. This Germán Medina said if we

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were taught to be combative, disciplined, structured with values, combative, warriors

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not to bend among adversities. That' s what we' re going to

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project into the future. But on
the contrary, we were covered by all

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the needs. We were prevented from
facing the realities of life, perhaps out

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of affection, for not seeing a
child suddenly seeking to overcome his own difficulties.

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That' s probably what we'
re gonna have when adults are,

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when those kids are adults. This
is where the influence of parents, families,

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relatives and siblings is a fundamental factor, where this first clash with life

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to solve all the needs of a
human being. We can' t take

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it away from him for helping him, because there' s what we'

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re doing is hurting him more.
Because, finally, an athlete can do

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all the picks in the world,
develop the strength all he has, but

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really the attitude to competitive challenges like
Olympic ones, is a survival issue where

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he succeeds and reaches the highest,
not only the fastest, the best,

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the most technical, but the one
that has the ability to face threatening situations,

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in situations where everyone wants to be
first and beat them in his favor.

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It' s something that' s
really hard to express in words,

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but I fly and repeat, for
me the word is survival. After Beijing,

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followed London, which for many has
been the best track and the best

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in the history of the Olympic bm
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but Hector b fue feld Fast gunne
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would fall by only five for this
occasion. Emilio Falla would repeat, as

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would Andrés Jiménez. Brazil would participate
for the first time with Renato Recende,

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Argentina would lead to ernesto blackboard and
for Colombia would debut Carlos Mario or Kndo

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Okendo had a fall in the second
peralt during the first hit and in a

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gonic classification, he would be able
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he achieved a very valuable bronze medal. Andrés Jiménez would win a sixth place,

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taking back an Olympic diploma. Marys
Strombers rewritten his name with golden letters

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in the book of the Olympic bm
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Olympic gold medals xen Stel Kira,
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Marshan alive in parfect Walthing. Now
Australia' s fis Sam Willow would take

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silver and bronze, as we mentioned
earlier, would be for Carlos Mario or

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Kendo giving him the second Colombian Olympic
Medal at BMX. Yes, second Olympic

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medal, because the first was the
gold of Mariana Pahón, who had a

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more than consistent performance, winning all
the qualifying hits. Latin America was represented

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in women with three participants, Stephane
Hernández from Venezuela, Scuella Stein from Brazil

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and Mariana Pahón from Colombia. Mariana
arrived in London without favoritism, but heat

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after heat was attracting the attention of
the press and its rivals, proving not

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only to be the fastest on the
track, but also the rider with a

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great mental strength Walker got of to
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Yan Colley o Ken Shck and Chantion, The Colomb The Founcey, Theartney,

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entre Hearst, wheel Free Klin The
CW. In the final it was impressive,

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winning from the start with a first
powerful piece, managed to get to

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the head of the group and by
reaching the first peralte it already dominated with

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a considerable advantage. The silver went
to roast Walker from New Zealand and the

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Bronze, for Laura s Molders from
the Netherlands, to the surprise of the

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press and the public, to the
local and favorite Shannis network It only reached

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him for a sixth place, while
Caro the in Ucan from Australia and also

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favorite, reached him for the fifth
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s Feld like an Qin n h
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propelled the BMX by giving international.
In the stands of the Below Park track

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you could see superstars of the size
of David Bechm and different celebrities. But

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without a doubt, it would be
a historic day for Mariana Pajón, the

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Colombian BMX and Colombia as a country. This would be Mariana Pajón' s

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first Olympic medal, which would open
the way for the following Colombian bm X

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medals and would be the second Olympic
gold medal for Colombia, a feat that

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would begin to write the great story
of the BMX queen. The BMX was

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consolidated as one of the great attractions
of the Olympics and in the world environment

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achieved great notoriety with a World Cup
organized by the International Cyclistic Union, compared

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around the world. Marys Strombers with
two Olympic gold medals, two in world

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championships and three golds in the European
Championship became a legend of the bm X,

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earning himself the nickname of machine,
the machine, the man with the

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most titles in BMX. Let us
remember the conversation we had with him when

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he visited our country, in which
he told us about his preparation and training,

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both for Beijing two thousand eight and
for London two my. L s.

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very technical and criticized by some.
From the first hit there were incidents

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and serious falls. It' s
impossible to forget the breakup of the Nikyman

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fork or the fall of Connorfields.
There were thirty- two Wrightders representing their

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countries. The Latin American quota was
made up of six Wrightders Gonzalo el Chalo

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Molina of Argentina, Alfredo Campo of
Ecuador, Jefferson Milano of Venezuela, the

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local Renato Recende, who repeated Olympic
participation and by Colombia, the Bronze medallist

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in London two thousand twelve, Carlos
Mario Kendo and Carlos Alberto Ramírez of Little

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Magishan in women were sixteen participants headed
by Olympic medalist Mariana Pajón, and with

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her would be four Latin American riders, Gabriela Díaz of Argentina, the local

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Priscilla Carnival and Stephany Hernández of Venezuela, who would participate in their second Olympics.

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Well, the competitions in Rio,
as expected, were exciting and vibrant.

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Pon Duet Brook Ride, The Tos, Copper PITEPEC, C F G

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and anderssen n Ol On Nedlans,
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Fortlander, Mariana Pon the Right,
Mariana Apaho had a solid participation, dominating

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each hit and in the final showed
the great moment she was winning with property

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in men. Australian Dean and Willowy
dominated all the hits until the semifinals,

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giving them the advantage of choosing the
lanes. In the final, obviously,

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they chose lane one and lane two
of the inner line. However, the

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departure of the Americans Connor Fields and
Nicklong was superior, ending the strategy of

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the Australians Nick Yong, who went
from first to second peralt, but did

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not withstand the pressure and lost positions. He reached the final line fighting bronze

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with Carlos Ramírez. This is where
Lyttle magistion pulled his magic out of the

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helmet and in a final heart attack
shot he took the Bronze medal, leaving

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Nicklon in fourth place. Well,
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campfird of zero pas that the k
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It was for jelvan gorm of the
Netherlands and the Gold took it the great

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conor Fields. But to us,
as Colombians, Carlos' s career knew

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how to win. Gold. Carlos
Ramírez was also talking to us about the

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most exciting moments of his sports career. Let us remember several moments in which

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I say that in uncle as an
indescribable emotion, an emotion that does not

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then, like that one does not
fit in his clothes, so to speak.

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Obviously, the river. It'
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' ve ever had. But for
me, I believe that the Junior World

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Championship was one of them, the
first series, that the world field at

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the age of eight was another.
That' s not the first one.

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In the two thousand two in Brazil
Abreta, the double one had double or

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two in Australia. So, like, it was stuff that was filling me

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up and joys that went like little
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I want more, in the sense
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a sportsman and as a person.
For two thousand twenty the Olympic event would

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be in Tokyo, but we all
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the Olympic Games had to be postponed
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they retained the name of Tokyo two
thousand twenty, the competition was strange

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framed in a thermal atmosphere for which
no one was prepared without spectators in the

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stands in Colombia. In addition,
there had been the controversy of the participation

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of Vincent Peluar instead of diego Arboleda, which is worth mentioning more not to

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go into detail the name of Colombia
in the BMX. A name had already

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been forged worldwide and would be the
country to win. Twenty- four men

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competed for the medals, Six Latin
Americans, Brazilian Renato Resende would compete for

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the third time in a Alfredo Campo
Olympics in Ecuador. I would also repeat

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participation for Argentina, I would go
Nicolás Torres and for Colombia, Vincent Peluart

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and Carlos Ramírez. The Little magistion
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N of France and Conor Fields of
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on the track were at a different
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from lane eight took the gold medal
silver went to the British Ky White and

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Carlos Ramirez of Little Magian. Our
little magician would hang his bronze for the

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second time in an Olympic final,
making history and turning Colombia into the country

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with more Olympic medals. BMX.
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exciting. For this time the participation
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four riders for Latin America. We
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who again reached the finals leading the
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of Frey Page miro schmotece of the
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surprise went to Britain' s Bettany
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He took the gold medal a few
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who had to fight with being the
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others. The bronze medal was for
Meryl Smodders from the Netherlands. Mariana Pajón

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would become the first and only BMX
raider with three consecutive Olympic medals. Colombia

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is the country with the most Olympic
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six and those coming. We are
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say this as runners, not as
journalists. Colombia' s shirt is respected

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on any track. It' s
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our sport of some kids playing jumping
sand ramps to a discipline at the Olympic

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Games. But beyond the competitions,
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stand in the middle of the track
and think write for you what BMX means,

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what are the sensations that you get
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seven other riders who also seek the
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what he told us about his feelings
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tora moe lot arly is c up
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n on the walk of typor the
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the egg carsho aps the BMX Every
day becomes more competitive and is already part

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of the sport elite. He'
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history, and for some it'
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conversation with Carlos Mario Kendo, winner
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twelve. This was what he told
us about his life before and after the

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Olympic Medal and in general, there
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he calls us a lot with the
people of France too, because well you

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can, he is also very close
with Chilmaine in general. Let' s

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say it' s not like it' s like a super friend from all

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over the world, but it'
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that we understand each other so easily
and also and that corridor that you

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meet sometimes and say to you we
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' t have that, that camaraderie. No, I don' t mean

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no. Let' s say it' s not that everyone doesn' t

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have to be super loved or super
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are times when we say it'
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people put you a lot of competition
and the stain is that, after people

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come out of everybody' s mode
of competition, he' s super loved.

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But when we' re in competition
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normally keep ourselves in tes everyone is
like in their situation. Then I almost

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think you could say that everyone is
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not, that are very quiet for
those who love this sport, for those

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for whom we know its history and
have been part of it, witnessing its

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evolution, fills us with grace and
pride to see that for the fifth time

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an Olympic medal will be given.
For what we' re passionate about.

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We saw the downhill BMX, BMX
tracks in stadiums and coliseums. Our sport

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massed, our competitions were watched on
television and a generation was created that managed

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to live for the first time from
bm X. Our bikes went from light

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steel such as chrome, aluminum or
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art. The components are in titanium
and ceramics, seeking to be as efficient

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and lightweight as possible. Now there
are sports study centers to analyze the track

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data, obtain the telemetry of the
partyer, all in search of perfection,

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as in elite cycling or in formula
one. Now, on the BMX everything

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counts, everything influences and thinking that
it all started with kids playing jumping sand

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ramps. As Colombians and fans of
Mariana, Carlos Diego, Gabriela and El

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Core we dream of new medals and
remain the country with the most Olympic medals

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in the history of bm X.
We dream that Mariana will get a gold

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medal again, that Carlos Ramírez will
get another medal and why not that it

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' s different from the bronze that
I' m about to give her a

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spin if she didn' t go
to Tokyo and prove that it' s

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done that the core takes out the
forbidden ones and gets a medal. Like

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Gabby Bolet, we know we have
what with. The first and second of

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August in Paris will be twenty-
four men and twenty- four women fighting

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for Olympic medals on the roofed track
of Saint Quenting N and Bellinés. It

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is the first time that the track
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it is one that already existed and
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Unlike the previous tracks, this is
much less showy in a certain way,

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less spectacular. It doesn' t
have long straight lines like Tokyo or

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huge jumps like Rio. It is
very technical, where the bike domain and

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strategies in the peraltes will be key. It' s a clue that'

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s good for ours, that they' ll prove that we' re still

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the country to win. My name
is Alejo Vargas and for me it is

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a pleasure to be a BMX runner
and share with you my passion. This

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is Alejo Vargas DMX Podcast' s
show. I hope you enjoyed this piece

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of audio, this podcast dedicated to
Colombia and the BMX World Chao