"The racket is a part of me, it goes with me where I go," said Pablo Abián shortly before taking the plane to Tokyo."The rackets are much lighter and thinner than the tennis, very fragile, and if we invoice we run the risk of fracture," he explained.So in the place where one perhaps wears a more jacket inside a small backpack and three or four basic things to survive in case the suitcase does not arrive, he transports his way of life.And it is not strange that this athlete who has already played his fourth games takes that racket as if it were a treasure.Not only because it carries a dozen rackets at about 200 euros each, but because without them he would not be the best Spanish Badminton player.Well, neither better nor worse, it would simply not be.
Reaching an Olympic Games implies hours of effort, motivation and much support, also economic.All this is undeniable and also inherent in the athlete, but there is something else.Each sport entails its own element: the Badminton racket is the Badminton player what the jersey to the gymnasts, the bike to the cyclists, the athlete sneakers or the protections to the hockey door goalkeeper.
And they are about 2.000 euros in material what María Ángeles Ruiz has carried on top of these days under the sticks of the 'Red Sticks'.The Casco costs 200 and to the total all kinds of protectors enter: feet (220), arms (74), gloves (340), legs (74), of the pudenda parts (24)...The stick, that is all, is worth 115 euros.
This is a list of what the material or equipment costs with which some of the Spanish Olympics compete in Tokyo, but not directly from what they spend, because sometimes a part is provided by the federation on duty or also, if it is thecase, the sponsor or sponsors that support them.Also taking into account that in that material or equipment they cannot carry "any form of advertising or commercial or other propagand.Except for the brand itself, which can only appear once and without exceeding 10 cm.
"They are their own sticks," they say in the Spanish Golf Federation about the material that they have led to the Carlota Ciganda Games, Azahara Muñoz, Adri Arnaus and Jorge Campillo.Jon Rahm was on this list, head of the Spanish delegation that did not debut by positive for Coronavirus.The total, as in many cases, is not accurate because prices, brands and quantities may vary.Arnaus, for example, tells on his personal website what he wears in his bag.Taking the data provided by the Federation, the Drive would be around 600 euros, the woods, one or two, about 300, and the Irose game, about 1.500.The putter can leave for 400, three wedges can cost 750 euros, the shoes are about 150 or 200 and about three tens of balls come out for about 180 euros ... The bag for the games, with the colors of Spain, costs about 600 eurosAnd the Federation contributes it.
To bring several elements of each thing is common something.Abián carries a dozen rackets "because the lamb is usually broken".The Calatayud agrees well at that time he went to take one in full competition and realized that he was the penultimate in conditions.
So carrying several of whatever is fine.Judocas, for example, must necessarily count on a white and one blue judoki, about 200 euros each, but in a suitcase some more.
Tennists also carry several rackets, about eight to 200 euros each.In an approximate count of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation on what these athletes use in a large tournament, a couple of rope rolls (200 euros per unit), 3 or 4 rented per party (25 euros per unit), fiveOvergrip (15 euros) and five antivibrators (25 euros), 50 poles (50-90 euros each), 20 pants (40 euros) and 20 pairs of socks (10 euros), three shoes (120 euros)...They only include a racket (100 euros).And they do not wear rope the table tennis athletes, but during the competition days they often change the rubber (the color part).These can be found for about 70 euros while wood can exceed 300.
Another example is that of Jorge Ureña, the decatteleta who has been ninth in Tokyo and travels with a five -meter tube with six poles.That is not in case they break, but each one, according to their rigidity, serves for a height.The last one he bought came out for about 1.000 euros.The equipment runs on account of the Federation, but the nail shoes, "it depends on whether any offer pillas", range from 80 to 120 euros.It takes at least "seven or eight telling the warming".And to the games only carries the poles because by norm it is the organization in this case that puts the material with which the athletes compete in the rest of the different athletic tests, such as javelin, the hammer or the weight launch ball.
The same thing happens in hast farme, it is obvious.Can you imagine Lydia Valentín traveling with the own weight she has to raise?To fight for the medals the equipment of the Spanish halteras can add about 300 euros: 80 of the jersey, 160 of the footwear, 50 of the protective belt and about 20 of the bandage.
So the release of material in any test that is not one of those mentioned above is not recommended.Neither in games nor in any other competition."Cyclists have to run with the federation's clothes, but they will not experiment with new material," they explain from the sports entity itself.They refer to the shoes, the bike or the helmet.The latter, by the way, sometimes implies its own aerodynamic study, which swells the price.The mail and culote set comes to about 300 or 400 euros, which rises to about 1.000 in the aerodynamic monkeys they use for the time trial.But beyond what they are wearing, it matters a lot, there is the bicycle.Route, BTT and track are completely different modalities.In the velodrome, the brakes are not even used and the cushioning or other more recent technologies, such as telescopic beef is essential in the mountain.With this the mounts go 8.000 to 12.000 euros.
Of course, a bronze medal, in these terms, costs 9.245 euros.It is the approximate market value of the bicycle with which David Valero entered third position in the male mountain cycling test in Tokyo.The athlete Rocío García, with a different picture than that of his teammate at the BH Temple Cafés and different assembly, is worth 7.845 euros.
It also has wheels (and much less elements) the skate, whose price is around 100 euros.Of course, on mounts, the price fork is much higher when going to a sport like the equestrian.Only if you take into account the price of four -legged athlete, win by a win and with several zeros to the right.They also eat and need veterinary care.The IOC has seven Spanish horses in its data, of which it offers information as if they were athletes.And they also need material to compete: a high -level chair is around 3.500 or 4.500 euros (taking into account that it varies according to the modality), the head is 600 euros, the reins, about 150 and the other the iron, the piece that goes inside the mouth of the horse.If it is for doma, they put some bandages on the legs at about 200 euros and if it carries protectors, as in Salto, it is about 500.Ears can leave 60.And the rider of the rider also adds: a dVa fraction can cost 700 euros, the pants, 220, the boots, 700, a jump jacket goes to 450 and the helmet, from 500 to 1.000.
And perhaps it has been easy to visualize Abián by carrying his rachetero and Ureña's pools in a plane's winery, but how does a horse travel?Sources of the Equestrian Federation explain a special flight for them, where they travel attended.With fewer attention, but also with the maximum care they send vessels.In May those of Remo had already traveled to Tokyo and before they did the candle in a boat container.At that time, athletes train for games with 'alternate' vessels.
That is, it was not until these rowers and regatists arrived in Tokyo when they were able to use the vessels with which they were going to fight for the medals.It is a circumstance that, on a different scale, occurs in other sports in which a equipment for training is used and better galas are reserved for competition.It occurs for example in artistic gymnastics, where the jerseand 300 euros each.
It is not aesthetics, although it is also important, the main thing in the candle and the rowing, two sports that rise to the podium of the material that costs the most.They are about 21.000 euros what the two -to -helmsman vessel is worth it like the one that Aina Cid and Virginia Díaz have used in Tokyo, getting a sixth place.To which you have to add 1.200 euros of the oars and about 60 of Platanito, which is the equipment.
In the case of the candle, the Tquatistas Jordi Xammar and Nico Rodríguez got the bronze in the 470 with a double ship that costs 12.000 euros base.With the stick, the helm, the orza and the candles the price rises to about 20.000 or 22.000 euros.It is not the most expensive boat of the 10 classes in which the Spanish delegation competes, since the price in some of them reaches 45.000 euros.From the bottom, a Windsurf RS table: x like the one Blanca Manchón is around 12.000 euros with all the necessary equipment to compete at high level: table, stick, bootavara and candle;With their corresponding spare parts.
"It cannot be said that prices are orientative," they point out from the Federation.This is a maxim that is repeated in each of the answers given by the specialists or athletes consulted.For obvious reasons, such as everything changes according to qualities or brand, also because each one has more or less amount of this or that.So there would be as many budgets as athletes in games, Amazonas and riders, rowers and regatists to judocas, athletes or gymnasts.There would not be, at the other end, such athletes - perhaps not as we know them today - without assemblies, rowing vessels, candle, judokis, sneakers or jersees, training or competition.And that has a price.
