With music for other games

neighborhoods this Friday in the final free programthey assured Iris Tio And Alisa Ozhogina their ticket as a duo to Olympic Games in Parisin combination with his bronze V technique. These will be the seconds during which they float together, after Tokyo 2020expecting in the next few hours to also confirm your team classification. The Spanish artistic swimming couple has a lot in common (“we are two years apart, I am from October 31st, and she is from November 2nd,” emphasizes the Andalusian), as special musical sensitivity who sweats through his pores in a sport closely related to notes. But they alsovery different in character in many ways; “That’s why we complement each other so well.”

“Despite the new rules, Mayu (Mayuko Fujiko, coach) and team We didn’t want to lose the artistic and special essence. what we have. That people see the choreography and they like it and they get hooked, and that at the end of the day, not everyone is doing the same moves to achieve maximum difficulty,” Tio, who Budapest 2022 He even danced a solo to a song arranged by his mother, in family of musicians. Just like her partner. “My father was a violinist, my grandmother was a pianist, my great-grandfather played the viola… They were all in the symphony orchestra.“- says Ozhogina ACE. “Me too I started playing the violin with my father, but it didn’t fill me up as much as the sync did. I regret it a little now, but when I was little I didn’t like it,” she admits. Can you guess it? Yes, the Catalan also played the violin.

“We, on the team, we like to create music, experiment“We had a great time looking for cool things,” says Tio, emphasizing that “this World Cup came very early in the calendar because we are used to competing in July or August, so Demand was very high during these months” “Since September we have trained so much that we almost we didn’t have Christmas“, says Ozhogina, proud of her role in the duet: “Our moment of greatest maturity? For now I think so, although we still have a lot to learn, and the best moment is yet to come“, he states.

“Aladdin” created for Doha

This Friday, as soon as the final of the free duet ended, with no time to rest or celebrate their Olympic standings, both headed to the training pool to work with their partners on the program that would take them to Paris this Saturday. as a team. “We chose Arabic music from Aladdin – which premiered seven months ago in Fukuoka– because we really like them and obviously thinking that the world championship will be in Doha. We watched a movie together to get inspiration for the choreography,” explains Tio, who loves “watch the competitionbefore diving in search of his target.

A similar liturgy is performed by Ozhogina, who lives with her “family” of artistic swimming, because He came to live in the Central African Republic of Sant Cugat at the age of 15, “in his fourth year at ESO.”, after appearing in Seville. And everything is random, as it happens: “When I was little, My parents always scolded me for putting my shoulders forward and walking with a slouch.. It was a bad habit. Before my grandmother suggested that I subscribe to synchronized. And then I took the plunge… Until today.”

Russian invasion of Ukraine

From Russian originOzhogina without taboos reflects on the invasion of Ukraine: “I feel sorry for the girls (the Russian artistic swimming team, suspended from the competition), because Not everyone supports the situation, and because of one person, everyone ends up losing.. I feel I’m sad that I couldn’t return to Russia, where I knew people. with swimmers Ukrainian I get along very well with the team and they the first one who told me that we are neither good nor bad here Because we come from one background or another, we are athletes,” he reflects.

They have a whole career ahead of them, and they are already equal in the number of world medals with duets. She is Carbonell-Marga Crespi And Carbonell-Andrea Fuentes (who also won Olympic silver in London 2012), does not exclude Tio that in Los Angeles 2028 some man joins the team. “The level is good. I see that the guys are motivated, so everything will depend on them.“, ditch.

And Ozhogina, in addition to the violin, is considering another musical future: “As a child, I did Seville as an extracurricular activity. Wow, me and everyone in Seville, because they dance in schools there, and in gyms you study instead of Zumba. When I retire from the sport I would like to register and learn more about flamenco“, he concludes. This will happen in many years. Previously, Paris and glory.

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