It was Marcus cooper, partner of Saul Craviotto in the K4 that the silver was hung on Tokyo, which left one of the phrases of the Games when he wanted to praise the figure of the Catalan canoeist: “He is a god of sport”. Of course, his five Games medals should be a good key to that. Olympus of legends. If a metal is the result of the enormous effort that is carried out during the four-year Olympic cycle, that an athlete has successes in Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016 (twice) and Tokyo 2020 makes it difficult to imagine what he has had to work to not abandon that Olympic podium and rise to the level of another icon of the canoe, David cal.
And while Saul He was becoming one of the best athletes in history, to the point of being the Spanish flag bearer in Japan next to Mireia, we also discovered that when he got off the canoe there was a policeman patrolling by Gijon, and that like so many other groups he had to live the pandemic on the front line. Or how his simplicity made him one of the most popular contestants on a show as often as MasterChef. Even his most familiar face, the one he misses when sport forces him away from home. A privilege for canoeing and the Spanish sport of which the qualifiers are beginning to end.
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