{"id":931,"date":"2026-03-25T10:38:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=931"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:38:57","slug":"the-level-at-800-is-going-to-go-down-because-im-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The level at 800 is going to go down because I&#8217;m gone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He <strong>brand new world athletics champion<\/strong> on an indoor track, <strong>Mariano Garcia<\/strong>boasts of its success in the same way that it demonstrates its simplicity. And so, half jokingly, half seriously, with a mixture of pride and spontaneity, he said that he believes that now in Spain the level of the 1,500 m &#8211; the event in which he achieved his last gold &#8211; is going to rise and the 800 m level is going to go down without him.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on RTVE just a few hours after returning from <strong>Grandchild<\/strong> (Poland), the Murcian has explained the keys to his victory in this championship, which he did not arrive among the favorites. &#8220;I arrived with a mediocre record, but I knew I could improve it. And <strong>I didn&#8217;t want to go to several rallies to get covered up<\/strong>&#8221; to the World Cup, Mariano Garc\u00eda said.<\/p>\n<p>The one of <strong>Reyllo Caves<\/strong>already a veteran, emphasizes those two ideas of mischief and strength when he recounts the development of Sunday&#8217;s race, when he set the pace from very early on. &#8220;I was ready. I have been a <em>frontrunner<\/em> all my life and I took risks. Whoever goes first doesn&#8217;t usually win <strong>unless it is much higher<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Mariano <em>The Motorcycle<\/em> Garc\u00eda thus became the first athlete in history to win at the World Cups. <em>indoor<\/em> both in the 800 m &#8211; he was champion in Belgrade 2022 &#8211; and in the 1,500 m, <strong>distance passed last year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The one who was also European outdoor champion in the 800m has also reflected on that jump, typical of runners who are turning older: &#8220;The level in the 800 meters is going to go down in the coming years and the level in the 1,500 m is going to go up. Every time I change, it happens. Look, <strong>Before, there were six or seven Spaniards with minimum<\/strong> (for an international championship in the 800 m) and now (at the World Cup in Torun) there were only (Mohamed) Attaoui and (Elvin Josu\u00e9) Canales.&#8221; Why is this? the journalist asks. &#8220;Because I have left the event. (The other athletes) They know that when Mariano is there, a quick test comes out because I am <em>frontrunner<\/em> and they come out more minimal,&#8221; he explains.<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda makes this comment already thinking about the next objective, the big event of the season, the <strong>Birmingham European Outdoor <\/strong>in August. He still does not have the minimum and the competition in Spain will also be great to get a ticket in the considered queen event of the middle distance. <\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<h2 class=\"ladillo\">He sleeps with hypoxia and studies himself<\/h2>\n<p>Looking a little further ahead, the New Balance athlete, from <strong>28 years<\/strong>admits his desire to finally be able to participate in some <strong>Olympic Games in Los Angeles 2028<\/strong> since in the previous ones he did not achieve classification: &#8220;I hope to fight for a place in 2028 and close the circle, but we have to go season by season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To achieve these goals, Mariano trusts his coach Gabriel Lorente and the support he has in Murcia, particularly since he resides in the <strong>renovated high performance center in Los Alc\u00e1zares <\/strong>and sleep in a hypoxic room, where you achieve some of the benefits of altitude training, but without leaving your region.<\/p>\n<p>A method that he knows very well because it is precisely the object of his final degree project (<strong>TFG<\/strong>). And also the subject, since he is using his own clinical data for this academic work.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He brand new world athletics champion on an indoor track, Mariano Garciaboasts of its success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","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\/931","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=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}