Olympic Medalist Reappears in Continental Coaches Course

(ATR) Olympic weightlifting medalist Ubaldina Valoyes focuses attention on a new online course organized by the Pan American Weightlifting Federation (FPLP).

The Colombian Valoyes reappeared on the international scene as a coach and a London 2012 bronze medalist after the International Olympic Committee awarded her last November following the confirmed doping of the Romanian Roxana Cocos.

Valoyes had originally finished sixth in the 69kg. to obtain her third Olympic diploma, after those obtained in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Then the positive doping of the Belarusian Maryna Shkermankova and her compatriot Dzina Sazanavets were confirmed, which left her in fourth place. The Colombian was elevated to the podium after the additional positive from silver medalist Cocos was ratified.

Valoyes was one of the almost 100 coaches from the Americas who attended the Level II Improvement Course for coaches sponsored by the FPLP together with the South American Weightlifting Confederation and the Weightlifting Coaches Club of America headed by the Chilean Sammy Murillo.

The Pan American virtual programs that have marked a new era as virtual initiatives during the pandemic will continue on Saturday, April 3 with a Webinar featuring recommendations on how to return to training after the long break.

The registration link is: https://cutt.ly/mxDabls

The Seminar, which will have simultaneous translation in Spanish and English, will begin at 3pm Lima time and will be broadcast on Facebook Live and YouTube.

For athletes and coaches, this conference comes at an ideal time with the Pan American Championship expected to be held in person in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from April 18 to 25. This tournament, which was postponed from 2020 due to the pandemic, will be a Gold Level qualifying event for the Olympic Games. The United States more than two weeks ago announced that its team could be defined after the Caribbean event.

USA Weightlifting is also advancing its plans to host National Championships Week in various categories in person from June 25 to July 4 in Detroit, Michigan.

The end of the Level II Course of the FPLP took place two days after of the II Webinar successfully organized by the IWF Women's Commission.

Valoyes, champion of the 2010 Mayaguez Central American and Caribbean Games and the Pan American Games in four consecutive editions since the 2003 edition, spoke on behalf of the student-coaches and thanked the regional federations for their concern for the future of the athletes.

She revealed her desire that, with the help of these courses, she could one day join the coaching staff of the national team of her country.

Valoyes is also a candidate for the FPLP Hall of Fame in the near future.

The president of the FPLP and the CSLP, the Peruvian José Quiñones González, remarked that the online programs developed in the continent, including virtual competitions, have been internationally recognized and assured that this effort will continue in a post-pandemic world to continue " globalizing knowledge".

The South American director, the Chilean Italo Barattini, of the IWF Technical Commission revealed the creation of a Complete Training Portal "as a great center of knowledge" based on the experience of these courses.

The president of the Colombian Federation, William Peña, highlighted the presence in the course of coaches of Olympic and world medalists. "It is the desire to improve, every day".

The Ecuadorian pedagogue Carlos Mora, at the head of the panelists, received an award.

Written and reported by Miguel Hernandez

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