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Everything was towards Letícia Oro Melo. Training removed from ultimate at Joinville (SC), left knee harm in November final yr, 7 months absence, absence of private coach for Oregon World Cup (USA) as a result of lack of visa, getting the finest outcomes in the lengthy leap and what the opponent normally does There is a distinction of virtually half a meter between them.
It can be a lie if João Carlos dos Santos, a veteran coach who turned 70 this yr, believed in medals. On Sunday, the final day of the World Cup, he completed 6.89 m. Having been coaching Letícia since 2017, he knew what good outcomes might be achieved with these tiny legs which are uncommon in the lengthy leap and the tiny toes of measurement 34 sneakers.
“I’m not betting on the medal, however I’ll guess on the end result. I used to be certain she can be over 6.80m if she match her physique. More than a month in the past I instructed her 6.87m was in my head. If you concentrate on it, think about I can not do it, she’s small [tem 1,58 m], depends closely on explosions. I requested her how she was doing on her telephone and she mentioned she did not know. She mentioned she solely knew she would go to her podium. You can see in the competitors that she’s centered, keen and decided.”
Leticia coach Joao Carlos dos Santos
In track and discipline since the days of João do Pulo, João Carlos didn’t rely the variety of athletes he educated. One of them, Dirce, grew to become a instructor and recognized college students with potential to change into sprinters. It was Leticia Oromelo who turned down her invitation a number of occasions till she accepted to take her exams on the track at Joinville University. He grew to become an athlete, and whereas climbing to take part in the lengthy leap occasion at an area occasion, he received a gold medal and modified his specialty.
Success. At base, he received two South American titles, one beneath 18 and one beneath 20 at the Pan-American Under-23 Championship. But he should not be an grownup. He was joyful to make it to the last of the Brazil Trophy,” he mentioned, “however he did not prepare a lot. In that competitors, he burned his first two jumps and took too many toes off the board. She failed in the third. She did not arrive between 8 o’clock and needed to go away halfway by the race. It was humiliating, I wished to surrender, and I did not need it anymore. Then she stopped and mentioned. ‘I’ll prepare critically,’ mentioned João. In the last of a discipline occasion, all athletes carry out three jumps (or throw and throw), however solely the first eight proceed three extra occasions. The relaxation actually go away halfway by the examination.
When the competitors resumed after a pandemic break, Leticia took residence a bronze medal at the 2020 Brazil Trophy, leaping over four-time Olympic veteran Kayla Costa. The Santa Catarina native has confirmed that she will battle at the high and together with her excessive spirits she has had an incredible season in 2021, the place she received a silver medal at the Brazil Trophy and a gold medal at the South American Championship. This assured her qualification to compete in 2022 by World Athletics Standards. World Cup over a yr in the past.
Then, in November, he suffered a serious harm. At the finish of the coaching session, the Corville gamers had a small celebration and began “Três Corta,” a combination of volleyball (passing, lifting, attacking) and dodgeball (hitter leaving the circle). Leticia, who had by no means participated in this competitors, participated. He jumped so excessive to chop the ball that he tripped over the boy and fell and fell.
This prank has resulted in an anterior cruciate ligament harm, a well-known ACL harm in soccer that retains gamers out of the discipline for six to eight months. Leticia jumped again in May. He solely had every week of coaching earlier than profitable the Brazil Trophy with a leap of 6.59 m. Not in the Joinville she is used to, however in Jaraguá, one other metropolis in Santa Catarina.
Coal Track at Joinville University the place Leticia trains
Image: Personal Archives
This is as a result of there’s a drawback with the construction of Univille Stadium, which has loaned tracks to Coville since the Nineteen Eighties. According to João, the racetrack is fabricated from coal (it is an issue when it rains, and it rains lots in Joinville), however the racetrack is “nice”, however the two divisions of horizontal jumps go away one thing to be desired. And the strategy of operating on these tracks is completely different from operating on artificial tracks.
“You can see that she had a variety of heels in the World Cup qualifiers. When the heels go up, she loses velocity till she comes again,” explains João. As another, he made the leap hyperlinks from items of rubber soles discarded by the metropolis’s futsal workforce. Although the video is a bit scary (see under), the coach says it is higher than a charcoal flooring.
At Eugene, Leticia needed to adapt to the world’s finest tracks and overcome a scarcity of aggressive velocity. She solely took half in the Brazil Trophy as a result of she did not have a qualifier, so she solely made six of her jumps that yr, and about two of these hits. In World Cup qualifiers, he missed his first two and went on to hit his third to advance to the qualifiers. And in the last, he hit the first one worthy of a bronze medal and burned the relaxation.
Joao watched every thing on TV with out fainting as Leticia thought. Attending her U-20 World Cup solely as her coach, he paid her cash to go to her USA and information her together with her fan tickets, however solely managed to schedule her utility for her visa in March 2023. . Tânia Moura (technician do Brasil) guided Letícia to the finals with the unofficial assist of China nationwide workforce coach Nélio Moura (bronze in the males’s occasion).
Things should change as Letícia, a diet pupil, is about to change into an athletics star after dropping out of two completely different faculty programs. CBAt has already promised to put in a number of artificial leap tracks in Joinville, and will in all probability begin an abroad camp in Chula Vista, California, at US Olympic Committee CT, ready by Thiago Braz and Piu. World Cup for instance. So as quickly as she returns to Brazil, she is going to attempt to get a coach visa that may all the time accompany Joao.
The coach avoids predictions, however believes that the future shall be superb for his pupils. “I do not wish to say she’s going to do that or that. Our battle is to get to 7 meters. She’s already confirmed that she will. She has in her head that the aim is to get by 7 meters.” .can’ predict.”
It is value remembering. Maurren Maggi was the 2008 Beijing Olympic champion at 7.04 m.
(Letícia’s scrumptious bronze medal and her want for a profile modified the plan of the e-newsletter. An evaluation textual content on Brazil’s efficiency at the World Cup shall be posted right here in the similar column between as we speak and tomorrow. Spoiler: It was a marketing campaign. History It’s nice, but it surely might be improved lots.)
Archery achieves unprecedented outcomes in World Cup
Archery got here from one other nice results of the weekend. In the males’s particular person occasion, Marcus Vinicius D’Almeida, who didn’t carry out nicely at the Paris World Cup, took the bronze medal this time in the Cup Medellin Stage Mixed Doubles.
He and Ana Luiza Caetano received the bronze medal in the last, beating present Olympic champions Ansan and Kim Je-deok of Korea. In the marketing campaign, they misplaced solely to Taiwan.
Ana Luiza is barely 19 years outdated and seems to be like a very good guess for Brazil on biking. At Medellín, she was fifteenth in her private classification stage and dropped out of the spherical of 16 match. Brazil are beginning to see combined doubles matches as a medal risk in Paris.
Without Russia, girls’s rugby stays the sport’s elite
The Brazilian girls’s seven-piece rugby workforce continues in the first division of the World Series, a type of world circuit. The workforce completed eleventh for the 2021/2022 season, initially shedding the captive place of the elite, which consisted of 11 everlasting groups and one visitor per stage. However, Russia, which was suspended, was faraway from the circuit and Brazil was re-qualified. That’s good as a result of regardless of the relegation, ‘Yarath’ has confirmed nearer to the world’s elite than ever earlier than.
More Brazilians at the World Cup this week
This week the world championships for canoe slalom, BMX biking and trendy pentathlon are going down. Brazil’s greatest alternative is canoeing in Augsburg, Germany, Thursday by Sunday. Pedro Gonçalves, also called Pepê, is one among the better of Extreme, a brand new Olympic occasion with three athletes down the channel collectively. However, he has examined optimistic for COVID-19 and might not be capable to compete. He have to be unfavourable by Wednesday to position fifth in the qualifiers.
Brazil has a small workforce in Augsburg. In addition to Pepê, solely Ana Sátila and Mathieu Desnos (her French-born companion, naturalized and at the moment chosen for the Brazilian nationwide workforce) have been known as up.
World Nantes (France) at BMX begins tomorrow (twenty sixth) and runs by Sunday. CBC considerably renewed the workforce with Maitê Barreto, Paôla Reis and Priscilla Stevaux in the girls’s division and Bruno Cogo, Guilherme Ribeiro and Pedro Vinicius Queiroz in the males’s division.
