Tears and heartbreak Luca Martin-Portuguese: “what a shame to lose to him in the first round!”

“What a shame!”, “What a shame!”I kept repeating over and over again Luca Martin-Portuguese lady nothing Falling into the hands of Sister Anna Marton at her debut at the Olympic Games in Paris. A whole life is dreaming about this day, years and years are preparing for this moment and in 10 minutes and 49 seconds everything is over. With the lost gaze and tearful eyes, madrilia seemed to be in shock. An open-minded woman, who handles her words almost as fluently as she uses a sword, today is hardly noticed at a gathering with Spanish journalists in the Grand Palace, the Majestic Theater hosting the Olympic fencing.

“What a shame! She falls in the first round and goes for a medal. It’s just that it’s not worth it,” he says and shakes his head as if in denial. And silence returns. There was no possible consolation for the athlete who, at the age of 33 , was reaching one of the best moments of her career After Successful Olympic Games With two gold medals at the World Cup of Algeria 2022 and the Grand Prix of Tenez 2024, silver at the World Cup of Athens 2022 and 2024 and the Grand Prix of Tenez 2023 and bronze at the World Cup in Istanbul in 2023. In addition, it is the bronze of the European team this year.

There is no scholarship despite being the fourth in the world

And make a thought: “maybe it was the last assault of my career for I’m running out of scholarship“. And there is a real drama, That an athlete who is in fourth place in the world ranking and who has climbed to the podium several times in the last three years is left without help because of a bad day. Work, sacrifices and efforts every day do not count, only as a result.

They had to pay my house rent, when we don’t have a scholarship , we have to work because besides being athletes we are human and we need to eat

Luca Martin-Portuguese, world number four in Sabre

Because Luka knows very well what it’s like to travel across the desert river from day to day without economic assistance. Two years ago she remembered on the brand how her family and boyfriend had to help her On more than one occasion. “I had to pay my house rent. When we don’t have a scholarship, we work , because besides being athletes we are human beings and we need to eat”, He said then.

To be able to continue working as a waitress, she also started her career and developed her plan B: to study dentistry, Although even at the university they did not make it easy for him sometimes even asking for plane tickets to prove that he would compete.

On more than one occasion, he has been asked if a lot of effort is worth it, if dedicating your whole life to Lite sports, with the resignations that it entails, is good for something. “I have often gone through the process of saying that I have come this far, but when you love what you do, you never stop,” she confessed to Marka a few months ago. The idea crossed his mind again today.

Luca was there to win a medal

“Luca Fina a for the medal. I was in a great moment , but Hungary is very good. The ranking is deceptive because it dropped due to cruciate injury but he has always been among the best“, Decca Joss Luis Alvarez, coach of Lucca and the entire Sable team at the Madrid High Performance Center, when crossing the tracks with Marca in one of the corridors of the Grand Palace.

“Luka is the shooter who comes on top when she feels that she is in control, that she is in charge, but today the sister did not let her feel comfortable at any time,”he admitted.