Athlete leaves three children. It was sustenance for his mother.
A huge photo of sprinter Álex Quiñónez was hung in the living room of his mother’s house. It was from one of the athlete’s races representing Ecuador. In that corner of an Esmeraldas neighborhood, harrowing hours have been lived since Friday night it was learned that Quiñónez was shot in a sector of the northwest of Guayaquil.
“I want the government to find the murderers of my son, because he did not harm anyone,” asked Ana Quiñónez Martínez, the mother of the 32-year-old athlete.
Disconcerted to learn that her son was shot in Colinas de la Florida and that his body remained lying on the sidewalk, the woman said she did not know why they had done “so much evil.”
The mother indicated that the sprinter leaves three children and that he was the sustenance for her and her grandmother.
“What I ask is clemency,” declared Ana Quiñónez in a brief interview with the local channel. Saeta TV.
The Government has indicated that it will act decisively in this case and that it will not rest until it finds those responsible for the crime.
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The woman claimed that several companies had taken her son’s sponsorship and assets since he was unable to compete. “How do you think a boy can feel?”
The Olympic athlete had a new girlfriend and that is why he was in the Colinas area of Florida, where he was murdered along with an urban singer.
The Police handle the hypothesis that the athlete could be a collateral victim. The athlete had no background record. Christopher Arcalla Ramírez, the murdered urban singer, also did not have a judicial record, but he did have investigative processes for illegal possession of weapons and the crime of intimidation, according to the institution.
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Quiñónez, considered the best sprinter in Ecuador, forged a career with nuances of success, fame and disagreements. The 2019 season was described by Quiñónez as “the best sports year”, sealed with a signing for FC Barcelona (Spain), already 30 years old.
After the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, he went to Portugal to continue his training, the beginning of what would be the last stage of his career, a residence that without being registered by his “authorized representative”, Alberto Suárez, originated the sanction that it left him out of the Tokyo Olympics.
In June and September 2020, the athlete could not be located by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for doping controls. The case was repeated in May 2021, with a record of Florida (United States) in the Adams system as a training place, when the athlete remained in Portugal, “a tragic error”, as Suárez acknowledged, although according to the regulations, ” each athlete remains ultimately responsible at all times for making accurate and complete whereabouts presentations, whether they make each presentation personally or delegate the task to a third party. “
The suspension imposed by the AIU disciplinary court extended until June 24, 2022, and although the athlete filed the corresponding appeal and traveled to Tokyo with the “illusion” of competing, he could not return to the tracks, this would be his fired. (I)
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