![]() Many people say I underestimated Mutola a bit, but I don’t believe that’s true. I didn’t do what I had to do in the race, tactically, what my coach and the entire work team had planned for me, including the doctors, psychologists and others. The race became slow and the two Russians cut me off. ![]() I tried to overtake them in the last 120 meter stretch, open up a bit and get out to the third track, but I let them get ahead some, I ran more than I had to. Though I tried to finish off with that sprint that was my hallmark, I had to content myself with a silver medal, which was better than the bronze in Barcelona.ĭo you still suffer over that moment in the race? Ana Fidelia’s children, Alberto Alejandro, 14, and Carla Fidelia, 15. It’s something I carry with me – and will always carry – in my heart. What comes to mind when I mention the name of Svetlana Aleksandrovna Masterkova? So many years among the world’s best runners, and having been the best for a while, even, with distinctive traits, and I couldn’t manage to get a gold medal at the Olympics. She’d never beat me before, but she did it at that precise minute during the Olympics. I beat her twice after that, but she was better where she had to be. What was going through your mind when the broad strides of Masterkova got her ahead of you in the final stretch? Your speed and finishing sprint were some of your distinctive skills on the track. It was very sad for me, to think my sporting career was going to end there, for I wouldn’t get another chance to take part in a sporting event of that significance. That’s what I was thinking: “I lost my Olympic medal,” and I couldn’t wait another four years.
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