“Next year there are Indoor and Outdoor World Championships, there are European Outdoor Championships and I will have to work because the rivals will continue to do the same. Let’s see what the year 2022 brings… Not having been one of the four Portuguese medalists in the last Games, the ones that have had more times national athletes on the podium in history, auriol dongmo She was one of the representatives who received the most attention and affection from the fans at the end after a visit to the mixed zone of the Tokyo Olympic Stadium where she could not hold back her tears and admitted feeling “the most horrible thing in life” for fourth place.
“Everything that happens in life is God willing, if God doesn’t want something, it doesn’t happen. If he wants something, it always happens because he is God. Am I angry with him? How can I be upset with him if he is God? I can’t… A little sad but I won’t be mad at him. And yes, now he will continue to give me strength for the future. Promise? No, I hadn’t made any promises because I don’t make promises, I don’t because my relationship with God is not one of promises, it is one of sanctification from day to day. With God it is not like that, you give me this, I give you that, then it is not worth it, ”said the Cameroon-born athlete who moved to Portugal also because she was devoted to Our Lady of Fatima.
As she mentioned almost a year ago, everything happens for a reason. As she herself mentioned almost a year ago, there was more to conquer in the short term because “there is still time for one day to win a medal at the Olympic Games.” And if the first objective had already been achieved, with the gold medal at the Indoor World Championships held in Belgrade after smashing the absolute national record with a fantastic 20.43, the latter had good initial signs by qualifying for the shot put final at the World Championships Outdoors on the first try.
Although he was still far from the best maximum of the season in the open air (19.68 made in March at the Leiria Launch Center), Auriol Dongmo managed a launch of 19.38 in the initial test, ensuring with a comfortable margin of 48 centimeters minimum slack for specialty decision. The Portuguese-Cameroonian was also the best mark of the opening round between groups A and B, having finished with the best mark of her group A and only being surpassed later by the Chinese Lijiao Gong, current Olympic champion (19.51) . Canadian Sarah Mitton would also reach 19.38.
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Source: Observadora
