second is what lasts a dive and is
in that second that my body is filled with
adrenaline I feel free as I fly in
that second I have to do four
turns and a half
I have to arrive with the necessary strength
to make me jump ball to
those four and a half turns and in each
turn boiling the water stretch the
legs the arms and feel like with the
hands you break the water and it’s at that moment
you know what you did well
imagine is on the edge on the edge
of a building three stories high
of vertigo is not the approximate height
which measures the 10-meter platform for
continue we have to go back to
2012 when I was in the cup of
world in search of my Olympic pass
standing in that three-story building that
the 10-meter platform about to
do those four and a half turns to
front
knowing that all my dreams
the work of many years if you are going to see
reflected in that second at the time that
came to the platform bounce group two
laps and only he said are lights not
I know where I am and a draw
It was the water, because I fell from the belly in
the water with enormous pain but more than
the physical pain was an emotional pain
because all my dreams
the illusion of being able to represent
Mexico to Yucatan in that
london olympics games stayed
there in the bottom of that ditch
the press to the media
many people were withdrawing me that already
better to leave the dives than a
loser that second cost me all that
what they think if I went months
consecutive but I did not go as a diver
Chinese was like commentator thinking to
that Father
the vacation was not enough
complicated to be sitting there in the
steps
watching the competition watching the
other divers what I wanted to be
where I wanted to be but it was still
worse when I was with all my
friends of divers from different countries
china russia germany in the area of
athletes who leads as a journalist and in that
a security guard arrived
they tell me you can not be here
you do not belong
you are not a diver and I with all the
shame the shame was a month has
because at that time there was no
won my place
it was then not to do so is so
tragic is history did not end there and
did not start there either started here in
Mérida at six and a half years of age
when he started nailing for game by
pleasure for fun and that game is
turned into dreams and those dreams into
goals and I meta
my dream was to go to some games
olympics be a champion
that’s why at 11 years old being a
11-year- old boy I’m selected
to go to the city of mexico to form
part of a group of talented children
in a boarding school but I had to go
alone
what without my parents leave my family my
daughter my two brothers leave school
let everything be responsible for each
decision to stand on my own and what
stranger because they wake me up every
tomorrow with a smoothie and in the camera
more will raise your hand to get up to
the 5 minutes came back like that
they woke up there there was no or I
I raised I saw things for me
but all that effort of sacrifice
it paid off
I started winning was world champion
Pan American and Central American Junior
everything is based on work effort
dedication
things are not free
nobody gives you anything in this life if you
you want to get something you have to
get up to fight work and repeat it
again and again until you find that
perfection until there is that margin
of error but it was there in london in the
2012 with the microphone in front of me
I realized how lucky I was from
to be able to do what I like what I
passionate that the power is nailed
represent yucatan the power
represent mexico but I watching
the other divers with their face
suffering from competition ice
I’m going to put a little bit in context
they tell you enjoy the competition but
so they feel what it is like to be there
imagine yourself for two solitos with
thousands of people in the stands with the
judges one side of the diving pit
qualifying each detail every error every
what you do to my family watching me
sometimes there sometimes on TV many
Mexicans watching me on TV and what
I do there, it will define my career and
I’m a champion
I am a loser who am
all of that is what it feels like to be
competing
all that weight and all that pressure but
also seeing it from outside that you
realize that the people and myself
being there
I admired those divers who were
there in many occasions
I had won them and I saw them as
10 is because they were standing there
holding all that pressure and
showing what you’re made of because
at that time it is when you defined
what are you done when you grab everything
that and he does his nailing as it should
that’s why that day I told myself that in
four years
I would never be sitting watching
the competition and I was going to be in the
following olympic games doing
the dives doing what to me
liked completely changed what was
making a new strategy that was
leave the platform 10 meters by the
three meter trampoline
I talk to my coach I was not
all convinced because my whole career
as it had been on platform
the methodological sports authorities
they said a resounding no
I certainly had a little bit of doubt
Logically, any change generated is
uncertainty and that fear but what
I was sure that I was passionate about
nailed
that I was born to do the jobs and
that he will not give up on that dream without
fight
the results arrived a year
following
I’m third place in the world but still
I wanted more
I wanted to be the best
I wanted to be the best in the world
thanks to my family my parents
I am infinitely grateful that you have
supported the decision to go to Mexico
that have supported me in the good and in
the evil ones
just like my brothers is that I could
get the results
I could be the person that I am the day
today that helps me overcome
everything and I have been taught that there is
share and we come to help the
neighbor do and think about others and
they do not usually or not
that’s why every invitation I can work
social lake and in one of them that was in
the children’s oncology hospital that
they invite to go talk to the children
to let them have a happy day and
glad that I am happy
to be able to talk to them and say the trips
competitions that fight but also
afraid to see a child
sick and not knowing how I was going to
react took out how not to feel sad
and at the same time make it happy at the time
in which I arrived at the hospital
The first thing I see is a girl
the gaditano is a little hair with
his little leaves symptoms of cancer and
chemotherapy but with a smile
that they will not believe from ear to ear
happy happy and fvm impact for me
because I was going to cheer up those children
it takes to cheer up that girl was going to cheer
jackie is here and she called me
Glad me and she taught me that you have to
face all the problems with that
smile because we all have problems
all have obstacles difficulties
but we decided how to face
all that she did not decide is
sick but what if you decide each
day is smiling and always being
cheerful
now he is in treatment of
spinal cord
I know it will be very good I know
that is going to improve and I appreciate that
great message that sees me because
when I was in the world cup of
river 2016 in the final without me
wear the uniform of mexico supporting
that pressure
I already told him it’s the competition and that he was going
to be those four and a half turns to
front that four years ago there was
left out of the Olympics in
10 meters now he has to do it in the
three meter trampoline
those same four and a half in front and
that same situation because no
face it with that smile
and thanks to that the competition won and
I become world champion
thanks thanks
[Applause]
they do not put the national anthem and now it’s
receiving the medal and without thinking what
He sang with all his heart because
mexico had won came to say
the formula to be the best in the world
the formula is that there is no formula
to work, you have to work
tirelessly until you can no longer
more until the muscle hurts
until your body and you galliano
you looked like one more because that one is the
second is the one that is going to give you the medal
of gold so I work but
enjoy it because you enjoy the
clear medal yes but you have to
enjoy all the way for when you
is imposing the medal is not only
those five minutes and it’s not all the
path plus the ‘medal never lose the
smile thank you as well as I
I thank the people who have helped me
my beautiful family that without them
I would be here today says an
said that things do not last for the
time they last but by the footprints
that leaves thanks to the results state
in different media and magazines that I
I think the main thing is not only to be
the best in the world but being a good
Being a champion does not make you good
person but good person a good
person
if it makes you a field
and because today
my challenge is not only to be the best
world but do the best for the world
thank you very much
[Applause]
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