when my brother and I were
little girls we had that pink pool that
we recommend you read us every weekend
loved to play the one that holds the
breathing as we are doing in
that photo and now I do not remember who
he held his breath more but for
effects of this story that I was the
what wins if you at that time
they asked what I wanted to do with my life
and I know that if I wanted to be an Assemblyman
the rest of it
the answer was going to be no longer in that
I wanted to be a veterinarian but
later I realized that I went to the
cows was not going to let it go
veterinary
the time passed and at 10 to nine
years I had contact with the
water contact SMEs a
friends invited us to the pools
Olympic girls I thought and I already girls
they did synchronized swimming and today to the house
after that pool day with my
friends and I told my mom that I wanted
do nothing synchronized all that year the
2000 the 2000 and the 2001
I practiced synchronized swimming and at the end
of the year
I went to my first swim competition
synchronized
but the competition here in Medellín and
that was my first in my last
synchronized swimming competition
when I got to pereira again my
sister who was swimming with fins and
all her friends from the team
swimming with fins
they told me to stop doing anything if
I thought I was very boring and that
it will be better for me to swim with fins
then in 2002 that dream began
and that big race that has not taken me
of the water
rather, this is the time I spend
more out of the water when I’m here
in March he can recover that photo
no problem
that was my first national competition
my first cream competition
with fins is March 2002 and had
three months swimming with fins
obviously my times were not the
better because other tables of
vote with fins
but there was born that desire to do the
better in that sport
a year later I went to my first
national competence in that competition
national that national champion of my
category winning all the tests that
there was where you had to compete there and
from that moment and I always wanted to
be the best swimmer canaletes
the time followed and in 2008
my life changed for good in 2008
classify for the first time
national team was selection
national for the world championship of
swimming fins championship young and
I was very excited because it was a
world championship and europe I will
know how to do the most in neiva but
something very good and very rewarding happened
we won a bronze medal a measure
that was not budgeted in the relay
4 x 200 since then many
coaches from other departments that
they made me compete for those
departments because they believed that
it was a good decision to the team and
because they wanted me to be the best
listen a lot to listen to the coach of
antioquia al del valle to bogota
and I said that my best option in that
moment was to go to Bogota
I felt that I could already find the
best universities and what is
coach from bogotá will take me to
be the best swimmer with fins
world that was what I wanted
I came to Bogota things did not come out
as molasses had been painted as tonito
it was all or better and the ideal world
I cried every day the first semester
call my mom I told her I love me
back to pereira I do not want to be
more here my mom told me that I was still
working and yes
I was fighting for what I wanted in May
of that year he received a call that another
my life changed once
the coach of antioquia knew about me
condition in bogotá
all the unfulfilled promises and told me
I want you to come by train
antioquia
I said look, I can not take that
decision because because they call they want
once and I do not want to go again
full of dreams and expectations and that
then they came out with a drip to mexico
who see more bravo his mom his dad and
my mom the next Monday is my mom
received a call of indeports
antioquia they told him that they wanted
that we came here already
we clarified and to make the victory more
short since July 2009 competed and
trained for antioquia
I stayed another six months in Bogota
because he had already paid tuition
the university and in practice it does not
could lose in January 2010 from yao to
medellín a city that welcomed me with
the open arms and that I love
deeply 2010 snowy came back to
change not only because I changed again
of university team city but
because that year I knew apnea and how
listened right now you know and for
things by mistake by things in life
I knew apnea because in a
swimming training with fins we
they taught some exercises
breathing and in the end they asked us to
we would win a maximum of 100
meters with violets my coach was left
fascinated with what he had done and
I started to compete and train apnea in
pool in pool consists of walking
the greatest horizontal distance without
breathe but I kept doing swimming
finned
if you had at that time
asked what I wanted to close a
list that I would have told you not to
the black one a hobby and that I wanted to continue
being nothing with fins and I wanted to continue
working to be the best
Colombia and in the world in swimming with
fins in 2013 all day change
that photo that you see there is one of my
first dives in the sea
A friend invited me to Santa Marta because
I knew that I was good at swimming and
I wanted to know if I was going to like the
depth this first weekend
I managed to do more than 25 meters in the uned
a normal person who has never done
raids in shallow depth more or
minus 10 or 15 meters
I knew that I could stand the
breath then he had no
fear no fear
I just wanted to get to the bottom and
grab a little bit of sand and I did it
two months after that first
investment of that first weekend
I went to my first competition
international depth
my investments were not very deep
obviously it was my first competition not
they were so deep that photographers
they could come down with me to the plate and
take me pictures there those investments to 35
meters without end eta but from there it followed
growing that desire to remain
good idea and redefining my limits
coming deeper in 2014
I made a decision that has been I believe
that one of the best decisions of my
day I told my swimming coach
with fins I did not want to keep doing
swimming with fins is that I wanted to
leave 100 percent to close nea because
I felt and I knew that I had very very good
potential and I wanted to do the best
tennis player of the world
my coach told me that if I did not follow
doing swimming with fins
he was not going to train me I will speak I took
that’s a challenge because it ‘s very stubborn and
Alice I asked a friend who is also
shareholder who will help me prepare
Pan American competition for kiva
want
I made my first Pan-American record in
2014 in distance 195 meters below
of the water in a pool they are almost
four Olympic swimming pools is very
close the next two the four
pools but it did not reach me I knew
that I had to stop for and I did it
in 2015 or not if there is that is now my
boyfriend and my coach and was able to
keep doing many nea and follow
improving every day more 2015 pass of
make 60 meters deep make 82
meters deep and in 2016
something that was very important happened
like everything that has happened in 2016 I
I graduated engineering and then my troops
They started asking me are not going to
nothing when it works my dad is
worried because he had paid a
expensive career
obviously and I wanted to see its fruits already
I wanted to give him to have to be sending
plan
I told my parents that I wanted
give an opportunity to depor and I think
that my dad said why he has
what to do is one the sport I did not see but
I decided to follow my passion
I had to decide between choosing life
comfortable to get a job of 85 a
fixed salary everything much more comfortable than
to be doing what I’m passionate about what
I like it and that was the question that
I did I want to live as I want to be
happy and do what I love not
forgive and a difficult decision for that
I’m here I decided to give him the opportunity
sport
last year I was able to dedicate 100 for
hundred of my time what I’m
doing now
that’s my passion my sport
that was the Pan-American medal the
Pan-American record and start
discover a world that very few know
this afternoon for the water is like being in
the space but the most beautiful thing that feels
much peace much tranquility much
freedom and that’s what lifts me
every day to follow my dreams to
to work for what I want is to want to be
the best
the world is also that you take a picture
very cool this year action to the
best years of my life
everything started with a dream of making a
world record
and we started working for that record
you will say nothing good if you bring trained and
he succeeded
I want to tell you that two weeks
before the record I had a crisis
nervous
I called him I’m not going to make the record
I can not do it, we had many
logistical and financial problems
because there is a lot of money and he
he said you can not leave things so small
you away from your dreams and your
objectives and I do not want to do and in itself
what are you going to achieve we did it and in July
this year reach two world records
the first 83 meters with violets and the
second a few days later and knowing that
already had a world record but that already
had paid all the judges the
doping tests all the logistics then
I had another day to try and I’m going to
try another meter more was already
quiet had a record but towards
another did not matter but I did it and here
we are going to see the closing video and
is going to explain a little bit to you
that we can understand what it is that is
happening in these moments before and more
are the last moments before
starting the investment does not have to be
totally
[Music]
calm and prepared and concentrate
five minutes before doing that
investment is making a sun
splendid and began to extract a
awesome storm
I did not let you sumes concentrated before
that gave me peace of mind
they the first meters of the
investment in those meters 1 is still
floating and has lungs full of
air and that makes it rebounded more or less
between 10 and 20 meters of
depth
one stops being positive and starts to be
negative negative means that you no longer
we float more but we’re going to scream
towards the funk
there just loaded my mouth with air
because after a few meters it is
impossible to make valsalva which is what
we all know what it is to click on
nose and release the pressure because
we have to release the pressure because if
We can not trace the eardrums
eardrums are not flexible and can
rent is what you see there is
keep falling is called free fall and it’s
the cutest moment of investment
because it was simply you have to
relax and go down to the deepest
there is the plate 84 meters away from there
we can go through security we have to
denounce how deep we are going to
do and what they just grabbed is a
witness that a witness and a bit of
velcro we have to win and go up
put if we saw that witness
our investment is not valid anymore
that already reaches 84 meters but not
means that they have already reached my network
I have to go back up on my own
means and without anything happening to me I do not
I can faint I have to do my five
senses fasting has thinking first in
the legs that I want to go out to
breathe but I was already going extremely
happy are the last 30 meters of the
investment
n 230 meters accompany us to administer
of safety because it’s where we go most
tired and where there can be accidents
where the body because just me
want to pay and good
maya does have very high levels of co2 and
low levels of oxy is not that always
pass is when it’s not too bad when it’s not
be prepared enough when
we come to the surface
we breathe we do not have to do a
protocol to show the judge that
we are in our five senses in
this case involves removing is not what
that we have in the face
the judge counts ten seconds and then
count five seconds I have to touch him
the head is a very silly protocol but
after 15 more points is bad key that
means that the record is valid that
moment was the happiest moment of my
existing
[Applause]
if they are done at this moment they ask me
what I want to do for the rest of me
lifetime
surely I will tell you what I want
be realistic and I want to do it until
I’m already old and I can not do
nothing else
but I also have things clear and it is
that if life shows me that there
other things that make me happy and I
they are passionate
I’m open to change and that’s what
You have to do for life
thank you very much
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