Of kung-fu al box. The life of Esmeralda Falcon has not followed canons or stereotypes for being woman. Today, at 25 years old, she is a promise that can become the first athlete to represent Mexico in some Olympic Games in boxing, a sport that has given the country Olympic glories, but all won by men.
And it is that if there is someone who knows how to break schemes, it is precisely the native of Xochimilco, who in 2018 won the first Gold medal for Mexico in the Central American and Caribbean Games Barranquilla 2018 in the women’s branch. Later, at the Pan American Games in Lima 2019, the Bronze. In addition, in 2020 he won his battle against covid-19 that reduced his training for a couple of months.
“I have not noticed it (the story he has written), I I was commenting on it when I won the Gold in Central America. I didn’t know why everyone was making such a fuss until the teacher told me (Francisco) Bonilla, it was the first time that he had won a gold medal in women’s boxing and I kind of couldn’t see the magnitude that had been achieved, “he said in an interview with Mediotiempo.
A PODIUM IN ARGENTINA WILL GIVE YOU THE OLYMPIC TICKET
From May 6 to 13 in Argentina, Falcon will compete in the Pre-Olympic of Box within the category minus 60 kg., where you need to get on the podium to make history.
“It motivates me too much, it is one of my goals. I would like to be the first woman to qualify for the Olympics. I want to go up to the ring and go down satisfied for what it shows above him. Not nothing else will be the merit for me ”, he mentioned.
“Every step we take is going to benefit the next generation. To be recognized as feminine, not as Esmeralda or personally, but as gender. “
The brazilian Beatriz Ferreira (listed as the best in America in the category minus 60 kg), the American Rashida Ellis and Argentina Dayana Sanchez They will participate in the Pre-Olympic. Falcon He knows that he can run into them and that he needs to defeat them to achieve his goal, but he trusts that his preparation will be adequate to fight them.
“The preparation has been different for many things. I had not been with my local coach for a long time and this time I was with him and I feel very well prepared. As soon as we were integrated into the National Team, we are fine-tuning details because we don’t have much time“.
Unlike the preparation she had to attend the Pan-American Games, in which she did not manage to have international blanks, the fighter took the positive side of the coronavirus pandemic, since the national selected had work individually until this month of March in the who have already entered the bubble of National Center for High Performance (CNAR).
“I was very pleased with this preparation because, not being in the national team, our coaches were able and had the facility to do a more individualized and specific training for each one of us. I feel better prepared and perhaps with this time that served to adjust some things, errors were worked on. I feel very good physically, emotionally and psychologically. “