Lucas Eguibarsnowboardcross world champion, is among the favorites to obtain Olympic gold in this event of the Beijing 2022 Gameswhich will take place this morning in Zhangjiakou (qualifying 04:15 in Euskadi, race 07:00).
The double silver medalist in the Sierra Nevada World Championships (Granada) in 2017 and diploma in the sochi games 2014, he disputes his third Olympic Games in China with the aim of getting rid of the thorn of Pyeongchang 2018, where he lost his balance in the round of 16 to see how the medal options vanished at the first change. The Basque Team athlete faces the last hours before he can be the most important test of his entire sports career.
“I am calm. In each race and each descent anything can happen, but I I’m going to fight” assured the man from San Sebastian at the press conference offered by the Spanish Olympic Committee prior to the competition.
The pain and discomfort that he has been carrying in his back seem controlled for the moment. “I’m much better physically. I’m in pain, but it’s much more bearable. Physically, I arrived much better than, for example, at the World Cup in China.. In curtain I showed that I am strong and I think I can be in front” declared Eguibar.
As for those who could be his potential rivals, he has appointed Alessandro Hammerleto german Martin Noerland to the Canadian Elliot Grondin: “Alesandro is very strong, Noel yesterday set the fastest time in practice and Grondin was third, but I have to follow my instinct in the race”.
Despite the difficulties on the track and the absence of his coach, the Austrian mario fuchsthat contracted Covid-19 and was unable to travel to ChinaLucas is optimistic: “I’m motivated. The Cortina race was good and I’m doing well. Physically I’ve been able to train well and although it annoys me that the track is hurting us, I want to hit the table. The work we’re doing doing is bearing fruit and that gives a lot of motivation”.
Eguibar arrives in Beijing after signing his masterpiece just a year ago, the world title at the Swedish station of Idre Fjäll. The owner of the Crystal Globe in 2015, he did not have a good start in the World Cup this season, but he was third in Cervinia before Christmas and arrives in Beijing after a fifth place in Cortina d’Ampezzo at the end of January.
Source: Eitb
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