“The season has been physically complicated. I started with a Christmas knee injury that prevented me from competing from the start. Then I recovered and began to take care of myself a little more, “he says Dennis Gonzalez. It is at the gates of a new World Cup, that of Singapore, which will begin for artistic swimming in the early morning from Thursday to Friday. But it is not an equal World Cup: For the first time it will be part of team routines, with prominent paper in the free and acrobaticin addition to being the leader at the mixed and solo male duos level, with prominence shared with Jordi Cáceres.
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But the way to that evolution has not been much less easy for him due to his injury. About this speaks to the Spanish media in the 'media day' of the national team. “It is a problem in the right shoulder, with a fissure in the Labrum. There is no specific treatment”regrets a Dennis that has focused the way to Singapore with an added difficulty.
“It is a problem in the right shoulder, with a fissure in the Labrum. There is no specific treatment. You have to measure because it also runs the risk of not competing, but I have all the help.”
“It's about taking care of myself with the minimum of repetitions, but I want to prepare well for the World Cup. You have to measure because you also run the risk of not competing“, warns.” But I have all the help of doctors, fisios and coaches to get as much as possible, “he says. In recent days, Dennis has noticed more physical problems, different from his injury, but he hopes that they do not influence the final path to the championship.
Spain, prepared very strongly for the Singapore World Cup
Dennis has had to measure his physical preparation with a greater demand this season due to the notable changes in his program. “It has been a complicated year, with many new things. But I have entered the team for the first time, that it was one of the dreams I had, “he celebrates.” All the competitions last year were to look for what we were training. Now it's not less, but there is a little more pressure for what we have prepared this year, ”he admits.
Because work has been greater than ever for Dennis, whose prominence has increased more than ever in the national team. In addition, within a group consolidated in the elite and with increasingly ambitious objectives, which makes increasing challenges be sought. “We are very happy with all the work. We have tried to upload one more point with respect to what we have done in other competitions.”Name Dennis. “It's about defending all that work as much as we can and being satisfied with him. If the medals then fall, but the job comes out,” he reflects.
New challenges for Dennis
An exhaustive work because the season has been full of changes for the Spanish team. The arrival of Andrea Fuentes as a coach has led to these variations. One of the main ones is Dennis's entry into the free team, in which he will first swim in the World Cup to return Russia. “We have not seen them in action for many years and we have no idea how they will come and what they will do.”he explains. “We do know that China is a great power and we stayed close to it in the last competition,” he says.
“We have not seen Russia in action for many years and we have no idea how they will come and what they will do,”
This has caused Spain to risk something else in Singapore. It is the way to try to hunt the Asian giant, but this will also reduce the margin of error. The performance of both countries in the recent superfinal of the World Cup has led to this strategy. “We did not start from the maximum difficulty we know we could do and now we will bet on everything we can to go to look for the highest medals”Avisa Dennis.
Dennis González and Iris Tió, European Mixed Duo Champions and with great growth during the season, make a partner in one of Spain's great bets for the World Cup
But it is not the only challenge for him. One of the evidence in which Spain has the most in the face of Singapore is Mixed free duo in which Dennis It combines with Iris tió At the rhythm of ‘Babe I’m Gonna Leave You’ de Led Zeppelin. “This has been valued as one of the best mixed duos in history,” Andrea Fuentes has come to value.
“I am very happy to work with Iris. It has made me improve a lot, because for me it is one of the best in the team“, explains Dennis.” Being training next day helps me improve technically and personally within this sport. In addition, I have incredible feeling with her that has not been transmitted with almost any couple. We are a good duo, we defend it well and bet a lot for this part of artistic printing, which has a lot of weight“, The newspaper.
“I am very happy to work with Iris. It has made me improve a lot, because for me it is one of the best of the team.”
Another of the great challenges for Dennis has come with its role in the acrobatic team, another modality in which it also carries a lot of weight because of its importance when executing acrobatics. “I am very happy. Since I started I already knew that, although maybe it would not end up jumping, the fact of learning different things is something that enriches me. For a lot I had dreamed of it,” Dennis explains. He is able to jump and push his companions. “I have the opportunity to do things that people didn't even think they could do”says. “Victor has always opted for me and I am very happy about it to try to demonstrate what I can do,” he closes.
It is a lot. It is something Dennis, his classmates as the coaching staff are clear. Therefore, its role within the bosom of the National Team has lived this season, perhaps, the greatest growth since it is in the national team. The Singapore World Cup is the great stop for him, after a year with physical problems and more prominence. Dennis González arrives becoming a leader who faces his greatest challenge.
