Ivana Vuleta announces retirement from athletics: "Health has always been my priority"

The Olympic Games in Paris will most likely be the last competition for the queen of Serbian athletics

Ivana Vuleta announced today that she will most likely retire after the Olympic Games in Paris. She stressed that her ambition is to win gold in Paris, that she will do everything to get the only medal missing in her career, but that her priority is health and that she wants to live a normal life even after her career is over and not jeopardize her health.

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"Health has always been my priority and I have dedicated my whole life to sports and athletics, but storming another medal, another success, would be too great a sacrifice, because I want to be healthy even after my career, to be able to move normally, I was lucky that I only had one serious injury during my career. I think about this period, to be healthy, I have no difficulties in training and in the competition itself. The question remains, if I were to continue, what can I pursue after the Olympic Games, it will be my fifth, I am only interested in the gold medal, because if that happens, then I will have made history," Ivana said.

"In principle... Even when we started working, we set long-term goals, there was no point in achieving a result and getting lost, he and I are big fans of sports and athletics, we gave it our all, invested a lot of time and effort to bored of it too fast, winning that one medal was not our priority and that's it. We had that assistance from the city where we lived and the Athletics Federation, where they allowed us to concentrate on training and to focus on the competition and our work, without thinking about whether we can do everything, that's it...

It's important that everyone knows their part of the job and that pressure is not created, but I am someone who knows how to compete under pressure perfectly, when everything's just right, I can't function, I like when they offend me, underestimate me. My career has been going on since I was 15, I've experienced a lot, more ugly things than beautiful, but in the end everything that doesn't concern me, my team and the people around me is irrelevant. In the end I have a reason to be happy.

Last year I finished both competitions with 7.06 (meters, long jump), this time 7.14, that promises a medal, 99%. But I can't say that I'm announcing gold, I'm announcing something that I want, the Olympic year is something that everyone prepares for in every possible way, it's important that when I enter the cycle, I enter 100% ready and prepare for it and that's that," concluded Ivana Vuleta.

(Telegraf.rs)