MADRID Nov 20 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Spanish judoka Fran Garrigós hopes to “go to Los Angeles 2028” after enjoying an Olympic medal in Paris 2024, although he undoubtedly knows that he will have to go every year, with the short term purpose of the European Championship and the World. Cup in 2025.
“It’s been a very good year, finally, getting a medal at the Olympic Games is a dream you’ve had since you were little. The goal is the European Championship, with gold, and the Games, so we can to be higher on the podium, but you never know when you will fight for a medal again at the Games,” he confessed on Wednesday in statements to Europa Press.
During the VII edition of the Sports Values Gala of the newspaper SPORT, at the Royal Tapestry Factory in Madrid, Garrigós shared the extraordinary moment of last summer in Paris when he achieved the bronze in -60 kg, the medal that has so eluded him. .he and Spanish judo. “I’m really looking forward to starting again next season and with new goals,” he said.
“It’s a very special moment that I’ve been dreaming of all my life. You feel so fulfilled that all the work was worth it,” he said of the Games podium moment. At the beginning of a new Olympic cycle, the Madrid judoka, almost 30, hopes to recover his meniscus well and begin to achieve his short goals.
“I hope to start competing in February when I feel better after the meniscus surgery. The goal is the European Championship and the World Championship. Los Angeles? That’s the long-term goal but we go every year, I’m ‘ Enough my age, and I’m waiting to go to Los Angeles,” he concluded.