CAMAGÜEY.- The prominent Camagüey diver Jeinkler Aguirre has been training for a few months at the Baraguá swimming pool complex in Havana, with a double eye on Japan. It turns out that the bronze medalist of the World Championship in Rome 2009 is preparing to seek the Olympic ticket in the qualifying contest that will host the Japanese capital itself. Jeinkler focuses on the individual event, since the main national pair on the synchronized platform at ten meters does not have the level of yesteryear, when his partner was the best Cuban diver of all time, José Antonio Guerra.

“We are working hard on the physical part because, although we maintained a good exercise routine during isolation, we must reinforce the most important planes. So far the schedule is going well and the only problem we have had is the cold water in the pool ”, he commented via WhatsApp.
In the last five years, the successes in Aguirre's sports career have diminished, mainly due to health problems.

“The last days of my career have not been very good to say, because I was stopped about a year and a half ago due to a herniated disc, and after a process of strengthening my back, I started again, but it is somewhat slow, well diving is very traumatic, due to the turns, turns and entering the water, which is aggressive for the back ”.

Despite the difficulties, he tries to be reborn armed with the perseverance and technical quality that have kept him among the region's elite for 15 years. Going to Tokyo and for winning in Tokyo is his priority.

“My technical team and I agreed to present the same jumping routine that we took to the previous Pan American Games in the pre-Olympic. They are not dives of a high degree of difficulty, but we will try to perfect them as much as possible to achieve the result we expect. We calculated that by receiving an average of eight points per attempt, he would be among the top 18 in the competition and thus receive the Olympic ticket.

“If we qualify, then we have to work on some details to get to Tokyo in good sporting shape, do a good job and achieve the dream of every athlete: an Olympic medal.

However, with preparation and discipline there is no obstacle that opposes Jeinkler's goal, and with respect to the trends in the world today, he commented that “they are getting more difficult dives, in which we have to enter, and in that much can contribute the younger boys that are incorporated

”The greatest exponent of the ornamental jumps of all time in Camagüey returns to the world platform to demonstrate talent in a sport that today is not experiencing its best moment in Cuba, but that trajectories like his show that you can climb 10 meters , and burst into the water, aiming for success.

• Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez