Yuli Verdugo and Daniela Gaxiola, the cyclists who are ready for Tokyo 2020

Luz Daniela Gaxiola Gonzalez

Since she was 4 years old, Luz Daniela started doing gymnastics and athletics. He became interested in cycling at the age of eight when he heard about a competition organized by Grupo ACIR and told his mother that he wanted to participate.

The following year she returned to participate in the competition, when she wanted to participate for the third time, she was told that she could no longer be there because she was more advanced. He then joined an initiation training team led by his coach Victor Lozoya.

Your training. When he was a student, his practice consisted of having breakfast, training, going to school, doing his homework, taking time for his meals and carrying out his second training of the day. It lasted three and a half to 4 hours a day.

Throughout her life she has had complications that distanced her for some time from the sports arena; at the age of 20, exactly on the day of her birthday she had an accident together with her fellow cyclists collided with a car. Daniela fractured her finger and wrist, they put a plate and two screws on her, she stayed ten days in the hospital. Injuries caused him not to compete in the World Cup.

Since he was a teenager he had his goals in sport well defined, in an interview with CONADE, he stated that:

“In the short term my goal is to be in an Olympic Games, we also have the Pan American Games, the World Cups; to be ranked among the first ten in the world and be able to make a good performance and be able to qualify for the Olympic Games.”

The Sinaloense achieved her goal that she worked so hard for, she took her place in the Tokyo Olympic Games after competing in the track cycling team that took place at the Jalisco velodrome. Dani did it with the fastest time of 27,327 minutes.

Yuli Paola Verdugo Osuna

For the cyclist from Baja California Sur, her love, discipline, training, perseverance and passion for cycling led her to achieve great achievements in the discipline, at 23 years of age the sprinter has been a triple medalist in the National Olympiad, she made a new record in the Pan American Youth of Aguascalientes, she was also distinguished as the athlete of the year in her BCS State.

In the Keirin event of the Pan American Games in Lima 2019, he won the bronze medal after going 200 meters in 6 laps.

On May 30, 2021, the athlete played at the Guadalajara Velodrome for a place against the best cyclists in the world to go to the Olympic Games and achieved her dream of representing Mexico in Tokyo, with a time of 27,666 minutes in the 500-meter competition launched, the Mexican sprinter secured her place.

In a statement, the Mexican Olympic Committee made it official that cyclists Daniela Gaxiola González and Luz Paola Verdugo will compete in Japan in the karin and individual speed events, after the controversy because cyclist Jessica Salazar has been one of the best in the 500 meters time trial. This report caused controversy since the Mexican athlete is the runner-up in the world.

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