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Alexa Moreno has shown that with effort, perseverance and above all a lot of talent, you can realize your dreams and end up with your detractors.
The native of Mexicali became the first Mexican gymnast to climb on the podium of a World Cup, after winning the bronze medal in the jumping event.
At the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, at the age of 22, Moreno had to face many critics because of her physique, which would not match the profile of a world-class gymnast.
After his participation in the Olympic Games, Moreno confessed that the attacks have affected him. "I felt sad, it hurt, I'm not a robot that does not feel," he said at the time, after attacks due to his complexion.
Alexa decided to put aside gymnastics for two years to devote herself to her studies of architecture.
Over time, Baja California learned to ignore insults and prepared to come back stronger. "It was not what I was expecting, but the negative comments were not relevant," he told the International Gymnastics Federation.
The 2010 and 2014 Central American Games champion returned to competitions in September for the Pan American Championships in Lima in 2018, where she finished third.
Finally, yesterday, she made the two most important jumps of her career to be among the top three in the world in the discipline, behind the Canadian Shallon Olsen (14,516) and the American Simon Biles (15,366), winners there are some days. his fourth world title in the all around.
The French flag obtained 14,600 units in its first attempt and 14,416 in the second, which represents an average of 14,508 to obtain the historic bronze.
He won his first international medal in 2011 at the Pacific Rim in Melbourne, where he also won bronze.
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