The Mexican diver Paola Espinosa had to see her streak of participating in the Olympic Games cut short, Well, she could not be selected to be one of the representatives in her specialty to represent Mexico in Tokyo 2020. The one born in Baja California Sur had her first appearance in Athens 2004 and his tour included Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.
After not being selected, Paola began a “war” of statements against Conade and its owner, the medalist Ana Gabriela Guevara. On this occasion, the diver was present in Atypical Ve Te Ve, a talk show on the YouTube platform that is hosted by Carlos Alazraki.
During the interview, Paola mentioned that the management of the director of the National Sports Commission, Ana Guevara, was the worst administration under which Conade has been. He also added that, after having achieved third place in the Diving World, she and her partner had been creditors of the ticket to Tokyo, because that way it had always been.
“I did not go to the Olympics, I took it personally. I won my place along with Melanie Hernández in synchronized three-meter dives in 2019, at the World Championship. We won it in the first opportunity that there was to win world places, being the third world place, assured Paola.
“The previous Olympics, which I had already gone through four previous, who won his place with an international medal already had his direct pass to the Olympics. That is not the only thing I say, all the divers who have gone through the same thing have said it. When we arrived in Mexico, we asked Ana Gabriela if they were going to leave us that place and she said yes, that it was not an issue, that we did not worry “, added the Mexican diver and also mentioned that there were repeated occasions in which Paola questioned her position and Guevara always told her that she would be selected.
The London 2012 medalist said that The director of the Conade had put as a requirement that the divers show up to train in a “bubble” that had been presented at the CNAR (High Performance Center), as protocol for the Covid-19 pandemic, otherwise they will not attend Japan to compete. Thus, Espinosa argued that she is a mother and could not appear at these facilitiesYes, although he ended up training for three months there.
Subsequently, the request to see her daughter was denied to the diver.
Likewise, Espinosa stressed that, although Guevara assured him his pass to the Olympics at first, then the representative of the Conade mentioned that the problem was with the Mexican Olympic Committee (COM) so that she could attend the summer joust. Therefore, the diver turned to Carlos Padilla, the director of the COM to give him a resolution to her case, denying him responsibility.
He also argued that the meeting with the COM leader was to confirm whether he will attend Japan and thus be able to define the plan for the competition. However, Padilla told him that the decision was in the hands of the Swimming Federation.
“Already within the CNAR, they wanted me to sign a letter of commitment in which you wrote your achievements of that year so that they would continue to maintain your support and they sent it to me but in the last paragraph it said that you cannot hold any public or political office and in April of this year I had already signed to be a multi-member deputy with the Green Party, ”Espinosa clarified, as well as declaring that it was the first time that she had signed that letter and that clause existed.
After not knowing the selection protocols to be applied and an injury to his partner’s shoulder, it prevented the couple from continuing with the preparation for the tournament.
“When speaking with Luz María Chávez (a Guevara worker) she told me: is that you watered it, Ana is angry with you because you went to the COM to ask ”.
This fact was attributed by Espinoza as a revenge by Guevara against her and that was why she was not selected.
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