Ánthony Zambrano was the flagship of Colombia in the Bolivarian Games of Valledupar, the man who carried the weight of the group at the start of the Olympic cycle that will end in Paris 2024, but on the same day of the inauguration he ‘got off the bus’, he mocked of all
The peasant, according to the official statement from the Colombian Athletics Federation, has a problem in his right adductor and did not want to risk his participation in the next World Championships in Oregon (USA) from July 15 to 24. That’s very valid, but It is also true that the Colombian Olympic Committee (COC) does not have, so far, an official medical report.
On Thursday, Ánthony Zambrano issued statements in which he does not refer to the injury being the problem for not being in the Bolivarianos. “It is not an obligation to compete, because they have screwed me in other competitions, right here. It makes certain people sad here… It’s economics. There is never support, there is never anything”.
Zambrano is an athlete who is given everything, who belongs to the Altius group, a program for which he is paid 7 million pesos a month. He receives 7 minimum wages!
Zambrano is an athlete who is given everything, who belongs to the Altius group, a program for which he is paid 7 million pesos a month, thanks to the plan of the Ministry of Sports and the COC. He receives 7 minimum wages! For the Inder del Atlántico he receives another 4.5 million pesos a month, plus what he has agreed with his sponsors. He is a high-performance athlete and has a multidisciplinary group by his side. He has not been denied anything. He had a concentration in Ecuador and then in Spain. They sent a psychologist to Ecuador, who had to return because he couldn’t find him: Zambrano never communicated with him and didn’t answer his messages either.
The COC analyzes the option of sanctioning him and if he does not revalidate results in the cycle, then he will lose the status of supported athlete. None of the Colombians who are part of the Bolivarians receive a salary for competing; if he wins a medal, he will have his financial reward.
Zambrano ‘left behind’ his teammates, a country. The medal that he was going to win, gold, silver or bronze, was of little use, it was not definitive, since Colombia must win by a good difference, but the resounding ‘no’ of the most representative athlete in the country at the moment is a ‘ low blow’. The COC has already ‘get rid’ of a problem with the withdrawal of Caterine Ibargüen and now must deal with Zambrano. One leader was clear in saying that when the President of the Republic gives the athlete his personal telephone number, everything changes, it gives him wings to look over his shoulder at others and he believes that he can set conditions.
The subject is unfortunate. It is not the first time that he has lived and the sad thing is that the good results and the medals erase everything, because when he wins, nobody will remember the ‘face cut’ he did.
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