From habanero pepper
Very active in social networks, to Rommel Pacheco he likes to share funny moments with his fans.
On Instagram, where 865 thousand followers, he has been showing how his training sessions and details of the Olympic Village are going.
He posted a video with a Japanese hairdresser and explained how he managed to make himself understood that he wanted him to cut “just the tip” of his hair.
When the international press echoed the beginning of the arrival of the athletes of the ecological cardboard beds, that some media described as “anti-sex” , several athletes threw themselves to demonstrate the resistance, jumping on them. Rommel included.
In recent days he published a video of a challenge he did with British diver Tom Daley , champion last Sunday on the platform from 10 meters synchronized.
With Tom himself he did a ‘somersault’ challenge, with somersaults in the air on a gym mattress, and the loser had to have a spicy habanero pepper sauce, which Pacheco is familiar with as a Yucatecan.
A friendship with the young Briton that Pacheco himself values especially.
“Here I meet mainly with stars of my sport, I know many divers of many years. Tom Daley himself, who gives me great pleasure to see him win, for me is one of the best divers in the world and also one of the best people abroad. from the training area. I am very pleased to see that he is winning, that he is succeeding, “he told AFP about his admiration for the young talent, also very influential and popular on social networks.
For me he is one of the best divers in the world and also one of the best people outside the training area. I am very happy to see that he is winning, that he is triumphing
Rommel Pacheco on Tom Daley
Rommel Pacheco He has also stood out in recent years for his work as a disseminator, his motivational talks in schools, sports and business. And he has even made the leap into politics.
His concern for the psychological aspects of sport has made him pay attention to one of the issues that focus the conversations during these Olympic Games, that of American gymnast Simone Biles and the “demons” in his head that are holding him back and preventing him from competing in the Tokyo 2020 tapestry.
“She explains how important psychological tranquility is, to be good with oneself. One always wants to win medals, but it is also important to be good with oneself,” she emphasizes, asserting the voice of experience.