Elena Congost was disqualified from the T12 marathon event of Paris Paralympic Games for helping their guide, Mia Carol, so that he would not fall to the ground. This caused the Spanish athlete to let go of the rope that was supposed to connect them by regulation. The organization took away the bronze she had obtained and she showed “destroyed” and he remembered that it was not “to cheat but to be a person.”
“I’m devastated, honestly, because I had the medal.. “I’m super proud of everything I did and in the end they disqualified me because 10 meters from the finish line I let go of the rope for a second because a person next to me falls face down and I grab the rope again and we enter the finish line,” she lamented. Congost after knowing the decision.
The Catalan stressed that the fourth ranked reached the finish line “three minutes” and the fact that he did it was “a reflex on the part of every human being to support a person who is next to you and who falls.” “When there is no kind of help, no kind of benefit and when it is clearly seen that I stop dead,” he warned.
Congost He criticized the regulations. “They only say that I let go of the rope for a second and since I let go of it, that’s it, there’s no going back and I don’t understand why no one can reason or understand the situation, that it’s not cheating and that it’s not about dragging an athlete like he was on the track,” he recalled.
“Mine is used to hold a person who falls. I have nothing left, it’s just that I can’t find any explanation and it seems so unfair and so surreal. It’s sad because I had also just been without a scholarship and was wrong and that was one of my goals, to get a scholarship again and be in the plan and they still left me out of everything when I think I have shown what I could do , he condemned.
SO, Elena Congost She made it clear that she wanted “everyone to know” that she had not been disqualified. “to cheat, but to be a person and for an instinct that manifests itself when someone falls and which is to help or support them.”
