This generation will surely be on the podium in Paris 2024, there are many years in which they have been preparing and it is a pleasure that they are consolidated
These are the fourth places that Mexico has added to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Alexa Moreno (Gymnastics)
The Olympic horse jumping final had Mexico represented by Alexa Moreno, a gymnast popularized in Rio 2016 and whose record has bronze in the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup, precisely in this apparatus. Moreno had a great performance and stayed 17 hundredths of the bronze medal, behind only Rebeca Andrade, Mykayla Skinner and Seojeong Yeo.
Injuries, a recent operation, the constant pressure of appearing on such important stages and much more had to shirk Alexa moreno , an athlete who this year surpassed her personal record at the Olympic Games and goes home as the fourth best in the world in her specialty.
Mexican Softball Team
A different approach to that used in Mexican softball became the almost Olympic podium. In 2015 the corresponding authorities began the search for Mexican-American players, the rest is history. With a controversial outcome and totally removed from the diamond, without a doubt, but with a very high sporting value and whose echo could make the softball that is born and grows in the national territory grow.
Mexico fell 3-2 to Canada in the game for bronze.
Jorge Orozco (Sports Shooting)
After safely shooting the first 23 of 25 shots in the first round of the sports shooting final, the athlete from Guadalajara, Jorge Orozco, let his competitors get closer and, with four shooters remaining in the competition, to one single stage to secure medal, the failures were accentuated. Fourth place Olympian at 21 years old, an extremely promising future, according to the conditions that the Mexican made clear in the Olympic pit.
Yahel Castillo and Juan Celaya (Diving)
A gap of 81 points separated Yahel Castillo and Juan Celaya from the German duo, in the last round of synchronized dives on a 3-meter springboard. With a rating of 85.5, Patrick Hausding and Lars Rudiger placed in third place in the competition and displaced the Mexicans.