Monaco is provincial and pale, a haven for millionaires who make noise in their Lamborghinis and Ferraris and think of Ayrton Senna on the casino bend between the luxury shops, and next to his exhaust pipes drowns the soft murmur of a delicious waterfall in a Zen garden, but strangely all decorated in the style of the country in which the headquarters of world athletics is located, and highlighting the figure of Maria Pérez, a princess like Grace, the first Spanish athlete to be elected female athlete of the year when she tried. Outside the IAAF field. No one has achieved it before. And no Spanish athlete, man or woman, has ever won four World Cup gold medals and an Olympic gold as well, a feat for the racer from Orsi (Granada), who, for 29 years, has enjoyed playing at home with his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother also have never won, man or woman. to join them. I have an athletic brother. “Well, my plan is that LA28 will be my last Olympics and then I will leave it to be a mother,” Perez says.
With him as a rebel, but withdrew because he lost a match with his Italian friend and rival Antonella Palmisano, and Maria Perez was one of the stars of the party at the yacht club that distinguished the American Sidney McLaughlin, the god of the 400 meters, as the best all-time athlete of the year and the Swedish champion Mondo Duplantis as the best.
a question. Come on, resist without cutting your hair.
answer. The bet I lost when I won the 20km World Cup was last summer, but I can’t wait. I even have to invite you to eat because I can’t bear to be out in the open.
p. All the champions say that since they were young, they dreamed of being the best in history…
R. Yes, yes, if you do not strive hard, you will not be able to achieve it. Together, yes, but first you have to learn to play and have fun. Each of us has our own dream moment and that little idea, but we don’t believe that our environment encourages us to be more competitive. Enjoy and play with your friends and you will see each other in time.
p. When did you think you wanted to become a world champion?
R. Always, from 16 to 17 years old, because I was also international that year. But before I became champion I was 26th in the World Cup. I’m not going to get there and become the best in the world. It takes time. Things that are cooked on low heat are much better than things that are cooked quickly.
p. Do you also want to be a leader? Never forget to claim more walking space in major competitions.
R. In Los Angeles, you will only compete in a mid-sized marathon test. NE 20 NE 35 km NE mixed terrain. Europe and South America are the farthest possibilities of the march, leaving Asia, and I claim its reality. Being an Olympic champion didn’t change my life for me, but it did for my South American comrades who won medals in Paris, Alegna or Pintado. When they returned to Colombia or Mexico, the government came to one of the houses. Skipping the test leaves opportunity for those who need it most. In the current situation in athletics, the leaders are unable to understand the essence of the sport without selling it on television, and in the end the Olympic values that we lived by are lost. The marathon and the march are among the oldest sports, and we are always in the eye of the Huracan, we are stuck while we are on the field, we are there at different times with changes in the tests. I believe that the march deserves respect.
p. At least one of the marchers finally gets a prize…
R. Yes, but I think if I had already been another major, I would have been sure that I would have been invited the first year I had a double (Budapest 2023). And I will never win the absolute award for best athlete. I’m not the person who sells athletics the most. We know the topic. Do you earn more by having more followers, having more followers, or having more prosperity? The real award is given to those who truly deserve it. Who is the best World Cup winner or the one with the most medals? But honestly it gives me the same thing. I’m walking and I had to win six medals in three years to be invited to the party, and to be the first woman to sit at the table of Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt and Mo Farah, athletes who won gold in successive World Cups. Si hubiese had a man or another discipline my hubiese sitting before. I think this is a problem.
p. How does his combative personality affect the problems he might face in the village due to his sexual orientation?
R. I’ve never had any problems, no.
p. Does it come from your genes, then, from the hardness of your land?
R. I am a person who always works in silence. If there’s one thing that sets me apart, it’s that I never lie. Claim is fine. I live in a country devoid of thought, work and action. We should express what we feel, knowing that we can be criticized, that we can taste something, but then we all learn.
p. Do you really want to leave it after playing games?
R. I can’t finish it, but I want to be a mother after the games. I wouldn’t make it from LA and I’d be embarrassed. This is not calculated. When he sells, he sells. There are many more beautiful things after sports. I lack the individual Olympic gold medal to have it all, but it comes, well; If not, I wouldn’t worry. But the best decoration is a boy or girl. I am fascinated by children and children. I also love to enjoy my family. I don’t have a couple, but I’m fine, I’m calm and I’m enjoying myself. When I have to come to this couple, when I have to start a relationship with someone, it’s impossible, but I enjoy it. Of course, with a couple I couldn’t be as up and down as I am now. I am confident that with my support I will bring happiness to many.
p. Will you make your great wife happy too?
R. POV…they scam you, make you a mess and don’t get in. They stole a message from you and don’t enter it. And don’t try to win. But despite this, when I play with her, who suffered from epilepsy this summer, this time we devote to the greatest people to help their heads think and work. And everything goes slower. I am 87 years old, but I have cars and trailers. I have two great-grandchildren, and now they tell me that my eyes will never see them. And I have to decide, don’t put too much pressure on me, Abuela