• Submitted by: manso
• Editorial Articles
• 12 / 05 / 2010

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By Harold Iglesias. They are like father and daughter, since she arrived to the national team in 2002, with 19 years old, they have experienced a huge progression together, shared awards and today they think big. The results hardly leave them options.

“Yarelis is a very strong athlete, despite her youth she has a large technical experience, and she’s extremely focused and competitive, which inspires me great confidence”, explained her coach Raul Calderon Pozo.

-How would you qualify the 2010 season?

-Extremely successful, she stabilized her yield over the 65 meters. In the second macro-cycle of 15 competitions she threw that figure in eight competitions, and only lost twice. It’s true that the objective was to get close to the 67 meters, but to achieve this many factors must come together. This time a difficulty in the stage change in her training prevented us from attaining this. That affected her in Oslo and then in the Ibero-American Championship.
 
Next year our minimum aspiration is to surpass the 66,50, she must reach that mark easily.

-What are the main potentialities?

-It’s incredible how she is able to keep her speed in the turn and coordinate it with her strength. Those are her main weapons.

Her records clear all doubts: the Olympic and world runner-up this year added to her list of awards the gold medal in the Diamond League with 20 points accumulated. There she finished with the best fourth register of 2010, thanks to her throw of 65.96 in Brussels, attained on August 27. The athlete from Pinar del Rio with 27 years old stalked the German Nadine Müller (67.78), the Croatian Sandra Perkovic (66.93), and the North American Becky Breisch (66.52). Let’s just highlight that she possesses four of the 10 best throws: besides the one aforementioned 65.96, 65.92, 65.84, and 65.62.  

-What about the relief?

-The current pre-selection comprises seven girls, many of them close to the 60 meters and in the case of Yanisley Collado she already reached 64.10 last year in Fortaleza, Brazil. She is followed by Yusleimi Soto, Denia Caballero, Yaime Perez, Lisandra Rodriguez, and Johann Rodriguez, all of them with good potentialities and the youth in their favor. The technique must be perfected with time.

-Looking into the future…?

-Year 2011 is crucial. Yarelis knows her rivals down to perfection. They are only eight women who can really pose a fight in her path for the medals in the World Cup of Daegu, South Korea. There’s also the Pan-American Games of Guadalajara and the Diamond League. The closing of full cycle will be in London, all the more so now that the we have the support of the IOC, because Yarelis received an Olympic scholarship. She has everything to succeed there, let’s see what happens.

Yarelis herself admitted she has always liked strong challenges: “The acid test comes now. For me to be among the best three of the world is something special, but there’s nothing like the gold medal” she sentenced who defined the silver medal of Beijing as the climax of her sport career.

Looking back into her beginnings, when she was 13 years old in her native Pinar del Rio directed by Orlando Torres Mendez, we discovered that the shot put and the javelin were her first events in the area of throwing, but none has made her fly as far  as the disk. If anyone asks me I’d say she is the best Cuban female athlete in 2010, there are strong elements to support such statement.  


Source: Cubasi.com