Paris (from our correspondent) – Of course, he didn’t shine as much as he did after the qualification, in which he showed the second best performance of all shot putters of 21.61m. they fell again,” described the 33-year-old bowler.
After qualifying, he recovered, called home to his wife Nele and one-year-old son Filip. “The little one is said to have slept through the qualification. But in the morning, when he found out, he was certainly happy,” Staněk smiled.
But trouble came in the final, he didn’t hit a single shot perfectly, and it rained in the third series. “I hid the ball under a towel because I didn’t know how much it would spray. But it certainly didn’t affect the performance,” he made no excuses.
Except for the next course of the race, which Staněk was already watching on the seat in the sector, the downpour had already taken its toll on the Stade de France. “Especially the fifth attempts were for nothing, it would have been a competition to see who gets injured the most. We can be happy that everyone survived,” he quipped. Including his.
“My elbow hurts a little, but if I throw technically well, it doesn’t hurt. I’m rather angry with myself that I could have turned it into a better one,” he reproached himself. “Although I am the third best European, compared to what I came here with, I have improved, but I was thinking of slightly different meters,” he acknowledged.
His season is not over, he still has about four races to go, where he would like to push this year’s maximum. And the next Olympics, when he will be 37 years old? Understandably, it depends on his health, which also troubled him this year when he entered the season later due to a groin injury.
“And also for luck, so that it doesn’t get bought. I wasn’t injured two years ago either. And Ryan Crouser is two years younger and was injured, on the other hand, he has a slightly different potential,” he said with a smile to the world record holder, who completed a golden Olympic hat trick in Paris.
“He has a completely different physical fund than most guys. He can afford to qualify from a half pitch or perhaps even from the spot. He is unique, like a Martian,” he says admiringly of the best bowler in history.
