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“I remember my family and I have remembered my grandfather, he called me ‘number one’, so I am finally ‘number one’. It goes to my grandfather, who will be watching me from heaven.” This phrase by Audrey Pascual will go down in the history of Spanish Paralympic sport as the one that opens a stage that is and will be golden.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old skier from Madrid has been one of the stars of these Milano Cortina Paralympic Games<\/strong> and he is, without a doubt, the great figure of Spanish Paralympism. In his debut at an Olympic event, he has achieved the feat of taking home four medals in the five events in which he has participated: two gold, one silver and one bronze<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Without a doubt, Audrey has earned being ‘number one’, as her grandfather said. You have to go back to Nagano in the 1998 Winter Games to see another Spanish athlete win four medals, it was Magda Amo, with her four golds in alpine skiing – downhill, slalom, giant slalom and super-giant.<\/p>\n The Spanish woman’s love story with the Games began last Saturday, in her first Olympic performance in alpine downhill. An impeccable first test that ended with the achievement of his first medal in Milano Cortina, which was silver and with which he ended an eight-year drought without metals in the Spanish delegation.<\/p>\n Only five hundredths separated him from the precious gold, but his great rival in this event, German veteran Anna Lenna-Forster <\/strong>It was taken away from him for that small fraction of time. Far from being discouraged, Audrey strengthened herself to shine in the next event, the supergiant.<\/p>\n “One goal has already been achieved, but since I was going for the gold, this makes me feel even more angry to give everything in the super-G, because I know I can do it and go for the gold.” No sooner said than done. The athlete He went out onto the track again <\/strong>Tofane Olympics<\/em><\/strong> on Monday, where she shone with her own light to become ‘number one’.<\/p>\n It was Audrey’s turn to make the descent the second and managed to stop the clock at 1:17.82<\/strong>the reference time at that time and which could only be beaten by Anna-Lena. The German started in fourth place, knowing that she would have to go very fast to be able to take the gold from the Spanish again, but that pressure took its toll on her and she was unable to finish her descent after going off the track.<\/p>\n Audrey Pascual had achieved her great goal, she had already won her first gold medal in Milano Cortina and became, like she herself said after the race, in “the ‘number one'”<\/strong>. The skier from Madrid achieved gold for Spain 12 years after the last one achieved by Jon Santacana and Miguel\u00edn Galindo in Sochi 2014, precisely on the anniversary day that they achieved it in the downhill.<\/p>\n And with almost no time to celebrate, the second arrived. On Tuesday, Audrey Pascual jumped into the snow in the alpine combined, where He won the gold again (2:11.22) <\/strong>and she returned the coin to her great rival in these Games, Anna-Lena Forster, who was only 46 hundredths behind the Spaniard, who made the difference in the first heat in the super-G. <\/p>\n The “twice ‘number one'” was able to rest on Wednesday before facing her fourth test on Thursday, where a new opportunity arrived in the giant slalom, where she once again aspired for everything in her duel, head to head, with the German. But things don’t always go the way you want and sport has these things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Audrey suffered a spectacular fall in the first round that left her out of the fight for gold, which Anna-Lena Forster won. The Madrid native suffered a blow to the head and was taken to the hospital as a precaution, where it was confirmed shortly after that she would be in top shape to take revenge in the slalom on Saturday.<\/p>\n The double Olympic champion wanted to say goodbye to the mountains Tofane Olympics <\/em>with what could have been his third gold medal and he almost achieved it. Audrey set the best time in a very tight first race, stopping the clock at 43.02, just one hundredth ahead of the Chinese Wenjing Zhang and 16th ahead of the Finnish Nette Kiviranta. The medals were going to be decided in the second round<\/strong>.<\/p>\n With the watch so adjusted, Audrey descended knowing the times of her direct rivals and a small mistake in one of the doors, where it was a little long, deprived her of the gold that the Chinese won and also the silver, which went to the Finn. Even so, the Madrid native won a bronze to continue expanding what is already a brilliant career.<\/p>\n The four medals achieved by Audrey in Milano Cortina significantly raise the historical medal table in the Winter Games for Spain, which already has 48 metals, 17 of them gold, thanks to the two Paralympic victories of the Madrid native<\/strong> in the super-G and the alpine combined. The Spanish delegation finishes the Milano Cortina Paralympic Games in fifteenth position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The double Paralympic champion was born without tibias due to bilateral agenesis, a rare congenital malformation<\/strong>. At six months he entered the pool on medical recommendation to strengthen his back and muscles for when he began to walk with a prosthesis.<\/p>\n The young athlete tried skiing for the first time at the age of eleven in La Pinilla<\/strong>. The Also Foundation, which provided him with material and instructor, was essential for him to develop a career on skis.<\/p>\n In In 2015 and 2016 she was chosen Promise of the Year in the Santiveri Trophy<\/strong> of adapted skiing, in 2017 he won gold in slalom and silver in giant in the Spanish Championship and in 2019 he began competing at 15 years old, the minimum required age, in international competitions, winning the European Cup the first time.<\/p>\n Since then she has accumulated numerous podiums on the snow, including at the 2025 World Championships in Maribor (Slovenia), where she was runner-up in slalom, and in the World Cup, in which she has climbed more than a dozen times in this excellent season and which has now culminated with her two golds, a silver and a bronze in her first Paralympic Games, the beginning of an era for ‘the number one’.<\/p>\n In addition to Audrey Pascual, the Spanish delegation can boast of the rest of the athletes who have participated in the Milano Cortina Games, all of them with a bright future in upcoming Paralympic events: Mar\u00eda Mart\u00edn-Granizo, the couple formed by Alejandra Requesen and Victoria Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, Iraide Rodr\u00edguez, Higinio Rivero, Emilio Redondo and Javier Marco Arteaga.<\/p>\n Mar\u00eda Granizo achieved a more than well-deserved Olympic diploma in her last event with the slalom, after having a great first run and being lucky in the second with the great favorite, the Swedish Ebba Aarsjoe, leaving the track. The Leonese, who competed in the standing category, was able to get rid of Thursday’s thorn in the giant, when she went off the track in the second heat.<\/p>\n They have also had a good first contact with the Paralympic Games Alejandra Requesens and her guide, Victoria Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, who managed to complete the two tests in which they participated in alpine skiing – the giant slalom and the slalom – with great merit. Both joined the Spanish delegation thanks to a last-minute nominal invitation.<\/p>\n In the same situation was Iraide Rodr\u00edguez, the youngest of the team, only 17 years old. Like Audrey, she competed in the sit-up event and has participated in the giant slalom and slalom. At her young age, she can boast of having placed ninth in this last test, just one place away from the diploma.<\/p>\n Another who has made history has been Higinio Rivero, the team’s 43-year-old veteran. The Biscayan can now boast of being the first Spanish Paralympian to have participated in three different disciplines between the Summer and Winter Games: rowing, biathlon and cross-country skiing.<\/p>\n Milano Cortina has also been a first contact for the rider Emilio Redondo, who has participated in the cross and the banked, where he was on the verge of the diploma. And finally, Javier Marcos Arteaga, who closed the Spanish participation with his descent in the slalom in the sitting category.<\/p>\n The eight members of the delegation have a great future in upcoming Paralympic events and are already looking askance at the French Alps.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I remember my family and I have remembered my grandfather, he called me ‘number one’,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}“Twice ‘number one'”<\/h2>\n
Audrey recovers from adversity with a bronze<\/h2>\n
A story of improvement<\/h2>\n
\n A very promising Spanish team<\/strong>
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