Argentine rowing team coach Pablo Susini confirmed today that the team is “doing very well” in training sessions in Potrrillos, Mendoza, ahead of the pre-Olympic continental tournament to be held in Rio de Janeiro in March, in which they set a goal of “pot classification.” Allowed by the classification system at the most. “
“The team that will participate in the continental Olympic Games to be held from 4 to 6 March in Rio de Janeiro, is preparing the final in Potrrillos, Mendoza. The focus will continue until January 30 and from there we will work,” Susini said in a statement to Telam, “on the path from Tigre to the tournament.” “.
“The team is working very well since we returned to training after quarantine. We have high expectations in being able to classify the two boats that the current classification system allows at the most,” he noted.
The rowers who will be working until January 30th in Mendoza with coaches Jorge Enriquez, Martin Bonini and Suzini are Sol Ordas (singles); Excel Hack (Solo); Alejandro Colomino and Carlo Lauro (a lightweight couple), Milka Kraljeff and Evelyn Silvestro (a lightweight couple).
Ordas won the first gold medal at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games after winning the final match of the women’s singles rowing category held at Deck3 in Puerto Madero (Urban Park), with a final time of 1 minute 43 seconds 81 hundredths.
At the recent Pan-American Games in Lima, Peru, 2019, Kraljeff – gold in Guadalajara, Mexico 2011 in a four-way pair – took silver in the Light and Bronze singles, along with Oriana Ruiz, in a double.
In turn, the duo of Alejandro Colomino and Carlo Lauro won the silver in a light double, while Huck took the gold in four without captain, eight with rudder and bronze, along with Agustin Diaz in two without captain. .
The Argentine team will compete in the Olympic qualifying regatta in Rio de Janeiro, in March, and also has a qualifying example for the Olympics in Lucerne, Switzerland, which will take place from May 16-18.
“In principle, no boat is preparing for the Lucerne event. Depending on the outcome of the Continental before the Olympics and if there are more than two boats winning, the probability can be assessed given the number of boats eligible in Rio is a maximum of two out of the four offered.”
The Rio de Janeiro competition awards an Olympic ticket for the first three boats in one and the top five double boats, but each country will have a maximum of two places.
“Here, the idea is to add a good number of kilometers and with the best quality,” said the coach. “The team is very enthusiastic and leaves the best in every training session. We are very optimistic about the result they can achieve.”
In another section of the interview with Telam, Sozini, 43, confirmed that the selection process will take place at Villa Constitucion, Santa Fe, in February.
“In February, we will do the assessment in the rowing machine. In March, the water will be in Villa Constitución. All rowers are alone. Both aspirants to join the national team as well as scholarship athletes who train with the national team team.”
In this sense, Susini, who has collaborated with the Argentine national team since 2009 and who has worked as a national coach since 2012 and DTN since March, explained that Brian Russo, from Chubut, who holds many American medals, has been sanctioned by the Argentine Association for Amateur Rowing ( AARA), you can enter selectivity.
According to DT, they will be able to join the team “for the end of the year in South America in Asunción, Paraguay, not just Brian; all seniors who have not committed to this closed group that is pre-Olympic, as long as they participate in all evaluations,”.
Brian Russo, 33, Olympic Actor in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and multiple American medalist, was punished on March 11 this year by AARA for six months for “indiscipline” acts during a concentration in Tafí del Valle.
In September, the nation’s sports minister, Ines Arundo, confirmed that the Brian Russo Sports Scholarship would return because the athlete’s status appeared “unfair”.
“We will return the scholarship to Brian Russo because we understand how unfair that an athlete who has devoted so many years to representing his country is left without any kind of support and without prior notice. We have already spoken to him,” Arundo said. .
Russo, in his first Olympic participation, finished 15th in the singles rowing event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016 and won bronze medals in singles and four medals at the Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, 2015.
At the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, in 2019 he won the bronze (individual) and silver four times, and at the 2014 Odesur Games he won the gold medal with a single paddle. (Telam)
