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Second, when some athletes were finishing their participation the interests of
them were varying and I could feel an obviates relaxation in their daily routines,
this I can understand it and share, but I don't accept that some others didn't show
respect towards the team partners that didn't still compete, that demonstrates
a clearly non professional attitude.
A long wait
As I mentioned it previously, my sport was programmed for the final days of
the Games. Fortunately, I could arrive to Sydney with the necessary advance to
carry out an ideal process of physiologic adaptation to face the competition, what
I could not supplement with the appropriate technical work that should be carried
out during two previous weeks before the competition, refers to the training that
ideally a Taekwondo player should make in this period, as the combats with
different partners of good level to simulate the situations that can be given in the
competition. It should also be mentioned that when not having a team varied in
quantity and quality takes place a natural waste of the relationships that many
times the daily routine generates among the members of it. Again I can conclude
that the economic restrictive it affected my state of spirit and consequently my
preparation.
Another situation that I could notice is that when the days were happening and
the competitions finished, little by little the people was living the village and the
atmosphere that there was in the beginning was no longer the same one, the daily
activities became monotonous and what was novel in a principle now was only
part of the daily routine.
Once many competed the journalist began to make the analyses and
conclusions of the Chilean participation in the Games, without considering that
they were still sportsmen without beginning its participation, on the other hand
those that had already made it tried to look for explanations for their performance.
The importance of a good planning
With the experience that I had the opportunity to live in the Olympic Games
I can reach very valuable conclusions that should serve for the planning of the
future competitions of this level.
I have reaffirmed my postures with regard to what should contemplate the
preparation of an Olympic cycle. It is always mentioned that an elite sportsman
should be advised by a team of professionals in this area that helps him and that
work together with each other to look for the best preparation considering and
respecting the athlete's individuality.
In this sense I find that one of the factors that cannot be left aside, given the
importance that you had the participation in an event of these characteristics, is
the psychological one. With this I don't mean that it is the most important thing,
but in my opinion, it cannot be absent under any circumstance, since it is part
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