With the curse of Spanish boxing in the Olympic Games (Spain has not won a medal in this discipline since Sydney 2000) flying over the boxing preview in Paris, both Emmanuel (-92 kg) as Ayoub (+92 kg) They are two assets with which to break the losing streak and return home with a medal.
They both agree that they arrive at their best moment. Unlike past Games, Enmanuel knows that this time it will be different. “Both physically and mentally I arrive very well and this time the judges will not have the option to decide because I feel very good. I arrive much better than in Tokyo. I do not feel like any rival. I am the greatest I. “Everyone here knows that ‘The Prophet’ is kicking things around and heads are going to roll.”
This time the judges will not have a chance to decide because I feel very good. It arrived much better than Tokyo.
Reyes Pla He is convinced of this in what will be his second Games. “I can’t promise a medal, but I know it will be there. This year boxing will have at least three medals“. For Ayoub, they are the first. “I am really hopeful. It is a dream to be able to live this and it is something that I had yet to fulfill.“Getting here has been a very hard road and, furthermore, Being left out of the Tokyo Games was a pain.. First of all, you have to enjoy being here. And, then, perform as well as possible. I owe a lot of this to José Valenciano (His trainer)”.
His beginnings in boxing
For both of us, it was, practically, starting out of necessity. In the case of Ayoub: “I started in contact sports because when I was little I was chubby, from immigrant parents and they picked on me in class. We should never normalize that because it is very wrong, but at the end of the day they were children who didn’t know what they were doing.” And for The Prophet: I started boxing to learn to defend myself both at school and on the street. “When I started I liked it and I have managed to achieve my dream, which is to be in the Games.”
Furthermore, not only are these two pigs very fit. Ayoub points out that “the team in general is at a stratospheric level“. The final rounds of Olympic boxing are going to have a special location: The venue will be the Suzanne Leglen, second center court of the Rolan Garros, something that Reyes Pla He did not want to ignore it. “We are going to continue with the victory of the Spanish. If they have put it there…It is for a reason“.
