It sounds rare the expression in words of that has gained by three consecutive times the 20 kilometers of the World-wide Championship and that already raised the highest part of podio Olympic, but Jefferson Perez says it convinced: "I come like a laborer", to its arrival to this capital, with a view to participating to this Saturday in Encuentro Internacional de Marcha Chihuahua 2008.

 

The Ecuadorian arrived afternoon from yesterday, monopolizing the attention of the local press, before those who he hurried to clarify that its work will be here like support to its compatriot Rolando Sakipay, in the search of the ticket that allows him to attend the Olympic Games of Beijing, since Jefferson, has safe the card.

 

"I am thankful to those who consider that I can be the favorite; the favoritism does not gain because you fall to him well to an individual, winning a trajectory; nevertheless, I understood throughout 20 years of sport race that one must have a right respect to each one of the competitors who will take part in the sport joust. If somebody says to me: who you think that is going to win, all, all want to win, nobody enters to lose, then, it is necessary to maintain a respect ", indicated  Jefferson in interview.

 

-- world-wide Weight to be three times championl?

"To be world-wide three times champion, three times champion of Glass of the World, being Olympic champion, record of the world, three times champion of Pan-American Games uy, what lacks of modestia no? It is a trajectory, I believe that the one that you have darte counts is what is the one that you are doing now here, that teda experience, but when you stop yourself in the released line of (exit), no of the rivals says ` you hear, has the medals, déjalo pasar', all we want to also gain I, when it began I had the luck to compete with sportsmen of the stature of Joel Sanchez, Daniel Garci'a and I took years to want to win to them.

 

Jefferson denies to have some sport rivalry with the Spanish Francisco Javier "Paquillo" Fernandez. "the marks are different, the previous year seems to me that he did one hour 17 minutes and my better mark was 1:22:30, only that I gained the World-wide one. They are very different strategies and now, speaking in terms of Chess, I come like a laborer, to be able to collaborate with my companion Rolando Sakipay, so that it imposes the mark for Olympic Games and that surely we are going to obtain it".

 

To the people who will leave wings streets between Saturday and Sunday to observe the competition close by, the world-wide three times champion says: "That enjoys it because surely all the athletes we are going to enjoy it very many, as soon as I have arrived, for less than one hour and I see that people are very amiable, they have a very pretty city; that they go and they enjoy it. It is good that they include/understand that the Organizing Committee is not only bringing sport, but what they are bringing are individual, with an integral formation like citizens.

 

It finalizes: "It is important that the young people, that the children understand that is not question of being Olympic champion or the world, are question to transform itself into ícono of your nación".

 

 

 

March 6. 2008

I COME LIKE A LABORER, SAID JEFFERSON PEREZ

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