Swimmer Kristýna Horská from Prague swam an ideal race on the European Championships. She received gold within the 200m breaststroke and likewise met the restrict for the Olympic Video games in Paris and improved her personal Czech document.
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Kristýna Horská swam for the title of European champion and likewise certified for the Olympic Video games Picture: Novak Djurovic | Supply: Reuters
Horská is the European champion. The Czech breaststroker received the 200 meters title in Belgrade in a time that secured her participation within the Olympic Video games on the final minute.
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Hear the story of Kristýna Horská, who managed to get to the Olympics regardless of coronary heart and imaginative and prescient issues
With that, Horská fortunately concluded a narrative that didn’t develop effectively for her in any respect. In previous years, she needed to bear coronary heart surgical procedure and final yr turned quickly partially blind.
Critical difficulties had been related to the truth that she is extraordinarily hardworking. She educated far past her limits and her physique responded with severe problems. Although she misplaced her sight in a single eye, Horská nonetheless needed to go to the World Championships final yr, her coach Petra Škábová talked about it.
“It wasn’t straightforward along with her as a result of she’s a horrible fighter. Each message and each telephone name mentioned, ‘I wish to combat, I wish to attempt, I need, I need’. However this time I did a number of stomping. I feel she should not have gone to the World Cup final yr after coronary heart surgical procedure, however she caught it out as a result of she does not wish to give something up. This yr, I feel we made an impression,” coach Horská mentioned.
Much less coaching, extra relaxation
Within the fall, they sat down collectively and agreed that the Czech swimmer needed to change her coaching. They need to work much less, relaxation extra and hope will probably be sufficient. This recipe started to work, final winter she swam for her first profession medal, a bronze on the European Brief Course Championships.
“After I was within the name room, I believed to myself, go for it, you are able to do it, you deserve it for the whole lot you have been by way of. I entered with the thought that it could be very good if I succeeded,” Horská rejoiced.
Success within the winter motivated her. She needed to go to the Olympics another time. On the age of twenty-six, he suspects that it could be his final. However the restrict, which is extraordinarily laborious on her primary observe of the 200 breaststroke, she resisted for a very long time.
He fell solely on the final alternative, specifically throughout Friday’s ultimate of the European Championships, the place Horská swam for her first gold.
The gaze of her coach and union president Jakub Tesárek was the primary to take a look at the board, on which appeared the time, which marked development to the Olympics.
“My primary aim was to swim the restrict for the Olympics. Gold is only a bonus. By being bounced again, which I felt already on the flip, I believed in myself extra, kicked more durable and began to run away from them. And clearly I distributed my forces effectively and actually did not escape. All of the twists and turns labored out the way in which they had been presupposed to. It glided superbly. One of the best race in my life,” mentioned the European champion, who will go to the second Olympic Video games. She reached the semi-finals in Tokyo.
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