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Close to 12 Tuesday has come to Murcia Del Carmen Station from Madrid Talgo.
Within it, Miguel Angel Lopez and his shiny silver medal won on Sunday in the European Cup Race Walking Cup in Dudince (Slovakia).
The Llano de Brujas athlete has been enjoying the warm welcome from family and friends, after a new sample of potential treasures and whose limit is still far from reaching its 24 years.
"This goes for all of them: family, friends, people who follow athletics and running in Murcia," the walker, after a career that has been described as "hard, difficult, because was quite warm.
The test began at 15:15, so much the sun beat The raised so quiet in the first kilometers.
I wanted to let others do something similar to what I did in London, and appear at the end.
I felt good, and I finally had the strength to fight for the medal. "
Not only did the silver, but he had just eight seconds the gold won by Denis Strelkov: "The Russian distanced enough, we arrived to take up to 25 seconds.
However, in the last part, when I changed, I recortarle.
He missed very little, but I was also very very poor ".
After success in Dudince, the view of Michelangelo Lopez begin to focus on the World Championships Moscow 10 to August 18, for which already has a direct place to be the best Spanish test classified 20 kms.
This is why relaxation is going to be rather scarce these weeks: "Rest little because then you have to start preparing the World Championship.
Two months of intensive preparation for this event, which is the most important because I want to reach 100%.
Hopefully everything goes well, "he says, more than prudent with the possibility of repeating podium in Moscow:" They are big words because obviously there have more rivals.
Chinese, Russian ...
They will be the favorites, and will be there with them, fight and see what happens. "
Source: FAMU
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