One of the figures of Team Chile, a candidate to win a medal at the Paris Olympic Games, claimed to be experiencing the most difficult moment of his career and analyzes representing another country
Despite the leading role achieved at the international level, canoeing world champion and candidate to hang a medal at the Olympic Games in Paris, Maria Jose Mailliard not having a good time at all.
The outstanding national athlete going through a tough personal timeprincipally for ongoing problems with the Federation. Moreover, the canoeist He recounted the aggression on the part of a coach and is evaluating defending another country.
“Lately I have been having a couple of little problems with the Federation because they are making me control all the time. They are unnecessary controls, I already did the control that was required of me at the beginning and my results reaffirm the level that I have not at the national level, but at the international level, ”he indicated in dialogue with Deportes schedule by Emol TV.
When explaining the difficult relationship with the Federation, Mailliard believes that everything happens on a whim of its presidentAlvaro Torres.
“I don’t want to think that this is the reason, but the current president of the Federation (Álvaro Torres) is my ex-partner and we ended up on super bad terms. I don’t understand the things that are happening to me. She is in the public eye. Today I am one of the best athletes in Chile, with a medal projection in the next Olympic Games, and the best in the history of my country. I am going through a situation that should not be happening, I should have the full support of my Federation“, he pointed.
It’s more. Who comes from reaching a second place in the final C1 1000 meters and a third place in the C1 500 meters at the World Championships in Halifax, Canada, revealed an unpleasant situation that must have lived in the last Pan American.
“I am told the day before the test ‘We are going to remove you because the president of the Federation said that you were not going and that what he says is done’. I could not say anything, being that I won a control and that I am a world medalist in that distance, ”she recounted.
The ‘Cote’ Mailliard turned to the IND to find a solution to the mistreatment, unsuccessfullyand indicated that he works with Alemana Sport, since he does not receive “not even ten pesos” from the Federationwith which he is on trial.
The athlete admitted to be spending the most difficult moment of his career it is included told another hard episodewhich began in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics and continued after the prestigious multi-sport event.
“I denounced a physical assault from my coach. He hit me and the Federation turned a blind eye. I didn’t get any response from that. As an athlete I felt super helpless and without anyone’s support. I denounced and the Federation never answered my emails. With a copy to the president of the Olympic Committee, with a copy to the minister Cecilia Pérez, with a copy to the IND. They did nothing,” she assured.
“It was after the World Cup, when she had become world champion. I attached photos. He hit me on the knee that I lean on to row. A door slammed and I managed to back out and he hit me in the knee. Even before the World Cup, I came to Colombia to train with my partner because I couldn’t stand the mental stress of the coach, nor the physical and psychological attacks he used on me. Before going to the Games, the coach did not want to train me, ”he added.
Faced with all these problems, María José Mailliard analyzes stop competing for Chile and represent another nation. “When I went to New Zealandthey offered it to me, and I returned because I wanted to qualify for my country”, he said.
“Today I have many possibilities to leave again. I am waiting for this trial. I do this for personal satisfaction. You want to represent your flag when you are an athlete and you sacrifice yourself and fight against people who want to see you fall. It is a possibility that he stops competing for Chile, I have thought about it. Today I have French nationality. In Chile no one sacrifices himself for athletes, ”she sentenced.