Queralt Castellet has made history this morning in the ‘halfpipe’ of the Olympic Games in Beijing by getting the first silver medal of a Spanish athlete in a Winter Games. The Catalan ‘rider’ made a impressive second round where he reached a sensational score of 90.95 that earned him the Olympic runner-up behind the unattainable American representative, the best of today, Chloé Kim, who practically left the gold sentenced in the first of his three performances. The happiness of the Vallesan ‘rider’ was maximum, she even looked happy covered with her mask when she exploded with joy on the Olympic podium.
Castellet He made a discreet first performance that only assured him what would have been the tenth diploma in a Winter Games. But the diploma, at 32 years old and in his fifth participation in the Games, was not the goal for Sabadell. She had become aware and had said over and over again that she was going to Beijing for a medal. “I have many dreams yet to come true and one of them is a medal at the Games.” And that dream has come true this Thursday morning on the artificial snow, which always deceives more than the natural one, of the Beijing winter scene.
SILVER MEDAL FOR QUERALT!! MEDAL FOR QUERALT CASTELLET! 👏👏👏
Five JJOO and 16 years after his debut… @q_castellet achieve the long-awaited Olympic metal 🙏
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“After having made the first round all the nerves, all the pressure, all the thoughts of how important this is for me have come to me. But, at the same time, I think it has also caused me a strength from I don’t know where to get that second round so good for which I have been working for so long, and it has come out, and with this they have given me the silver medal & rdquor ;, he assured Castellet in the mixed zone after the delivery of the medalists.
✨ The creeps. Emotions on the surface with our Olympic runner-up 🥈
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– Spanish Olympic Committee (@COE_es) February 10, 2022
“The second position behind Chloéwho is an incredible rider and athlete, is a great honor for me and I am very proud,” she added with the silver medal hanging around her neck.
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Before, happy, biting the table, transmitting the logical nerves from China, he waited patiently for the judges’ score at the end of his already historic second round. As is traditional, she took off the best and the worst score. But upon reaching the sum of 90 points, this athlete who has been going around the world since she was 16 years old, the same one who has managed to overcome very hard blows, the one who continues to live day to day far from millionaire contracts, already knew that none of his 10 rivals (excluding the American Chloe, who was ahead) were going to take the Olympic medal from him.
Spain, in the entire history of the Winter Games, has only achieved gold in Paquito Fernandez Ochoa in Sapporo 1972. After his sister Blanca Fernandez Ochoa got the bronze in Albertville 1992, and four years ago in Korea the bronzes of Javier Fernandezin figure skating, and identical metal for Regino Hernandez in snowboard cross. Never, until this morning, had anyone dressed in the silver that emerged from the snow and ice. Queralt has been the first.