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The Spanish skater, athlete of the Catholic University of Murcia, got the bronze medal by taking the Olympic podium, the only one he was missing by stepping
Pyeongchang 2018 will go down in history as the Olympic event in which Javier Fernández completed his record and closed the circle.
He was already in the legend of Spanish sport for his victories in the World and European Championship but he lacked the icing, the last mountain: the podium of an Olympic Games.
And this time he has not escaped.
With two solid and well-worked interventions as 'the Man of La Mancha', Javier Fernández hung the bronze medal only behind the Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu and Shoma Uno. "For me, it's like a gold medal," he said. Spanish skater after getting on the podium.
The key to his concentration was in the fact that he was raised as if it were the last train to achieve it: "I took it as if it were my last Olympic Games, as if it were the last chance".
Whether they are or not, you will have time to think about it in the coming weeks.
Now it's time to enjoy this Olympic medal that had resisted him so much.
Source: UCAM
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