“I am not at all happy with what I did, I think I deserved it and I could have done more.” This Friday, Diogo Ribeiro admitted that he was disappointed with his performance at the Olympic Games in Paris. While his freestyle results (16th place in the 50m and 28th place in the 100m) were up to expectations, the same cannot be said about the 20th place he got this Friday in the 100m butterfly qualifying heats. The Portuguese swimmer did not even make it to the semi-finals of the event in which he was world champion on February 17 this year.
“I came here to say that as long as I leave everything in the pool, I will be happy, but I have the feeling that I have left not everything, but almost everything. There is room for improvement,” said Diogo Ribeiro, admitting his own mistakes in preparing for the Games and organizing the event itself: “I arrived as a world champion and did not even reach the semi-finals. We must look at what did not allow me to reach the peak of my form. It is difficult to accept that these are the Olympic Games, which are the biggest competition in sport, and I am not in the best shape, but I would not trade the Olympic final for the world title. The holiday after the World Championships probably hindered me a little. A mistake during the holiday that shaped me during the first two months of training. In any case, the Olympic Games are very different from the World and European Games.”
In addition to the negative self-assessment, Diogo Ribeiro criticized on several fronts: “I feel that this is a competition that is not going well overall, not just my swimming. Otherwise, it is not a joyful experience. The only good thing is that there are always buses. The food is bad. The building is far from the food, it is not good, the fact that we have to walk a lot to eat is not good. The trap usually catches the moth first, and when I work on the moth, the moth crawls. [livres] They come out well… The pool itself is not in the best condition. For me, it’s not so much the height, but the water itself. Space for the waves, when you come, turn around and catch the waves.”
In the future, the swimmer hopes to return to some Games and already knows what he will do differently: “Maybe I’ll stay in a hotel. Everything goes well when I stay in hotels and eat.” [em que] “Just take the stairs or the elevator.”
Source: CM Jornal
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