There is a new article about Sara in La Sexta TV Channel (in the web)
El Sacrificio económico de ser campeona. I guess the link is geoblocked (I'm in Spain, I really don´t know) but the piece is available in two parts:
There's a 3 min. video, that you can also find in YT:
The economic sacrifice of being a champion. It's in Spanish with no subs, you can see Sara and Sara's family and former coach taking about her.
There's also an article in Spanish but, here, you can see what google translate (and a bit of help) can do with it. But if you, after all the effort, still prefer the original spanish versión
, you can find it in the next post.
The economic sacrifice of being a champion
Sara Hurtado is historic. She was part of the first ice dance couple that represented Spain in the Olympic Games, is seven times spanish champion and last year was silver in the Grand Prix of Rostelecom with his partner, Kirill Jalyavin. Sara has achieved her dream, but she can not live on it. Discover her story in the following video.
Sara Campos Román Madrid 04/11/2019
Sara Hurtado dances on ice since she was seven years old. When you see her sliding on the skates you know she was born for it. He slips, turns, slips between his partner's arms and turns again. Smile. She is happy, training on the track that saw her born as a skater.
When Sara arrives at La Nevera de Majadahonda, she arrives at home. Everyone greets her with affection: "From the first day she entered with the rented skates, she has not taken them off again," recalls her mother, Pilar.
Sara dominates the track. She flows quickly, with open arms. The cold air moves her hair as she makes a small jump. And suddenly, she falls. She barely brushes the ice for a few seconds. She rises agile and continues to slide. As if nothing has happened. Its normal.
"I've never been afraid to fall, I know it's something necessary in order to learn." And ice skating is like that. Like life: "You have to be brave and surpass yourself, if you do not take risks, you will not know how far you can go." And Sara has gone very far.
"If you do not take a chance, you will not know how far you can go"
"I'm delighted I have her closer," says Pilar. In Moscow. Ninety days away. Sara can only be in the Russian capital for three months. "Tourist visa", explains. So he goes home often. The situation is not easy. No minority sport is. Sara has always had to train outside Spain because here there are no coaches for her modality.
"Going away from my family has been what has cost me the most and the hardest part now." Sacrifice is a constant in Sara's life. Also in his family's. With 26 years and many titles behind her back, the skater confesses that she can not be independent: "I am always at the expense of whether I have to ask my parents for money or not." But they are always prepared so that they do not lack anything. And her brother. And her grandmother too.
Sara's family counts the time from one Olympics to the next: "We know when four years have passed because the letter of 'you have finished paying the loan' arrives," says Pilar. They ask for a loan to go and watch Sara skate live. The Olympic loan, they call it: "Olympic for the time and for the amount of money that has to be paid back". And she laughs. For not crying. Although she does also: "The most heartfelt tears are those of frustration for not being able to give a little more". But pride always brings back the smile: "A lot of what Sara is, we have not taught her, she has learned it in life".
Sara's passion has permeated all the elements of skating, also the artistic part. Since competing in individual, she has made her own costumes. Create the design, look for the fabrics, find the right dressmaker ... "Sometimes I have seen myself in difficult times because I did not know who to turn to or did not know how to put an idea on my body". Trial and error. Until this year. For the first time, a professional designer has contacted her. Juan Vidal "It was a light," she admits.
"Sara has arrived where she is by tenacity and by soul"
Sara would not be Sara Hurtado without the unconditional support of her family, but neither without her tenacity and her discipline: "She has come where she is for determination and for soul, because she skates with her heart," says Iván Sáez, her first coach. And to think that she was about to leave it.
After winning five Spanish championships, competing in several Europeans, a World Cup and an Olympic Games, Sara decided to stop skating with her previous partner. The magic was lost and I was no longer motivated. So she was consistent and very brave: "It was the hardest decision of my life, but now I feel it was the best I could do."
She was lucky. Finding a dance partner is complicated. But not impossible. When she was ready to retire, Kirill Jalyavin appeared. And she decided to try: "I had nothing to lose," she says. Indeed, she had a lot to gain. Sara and Kirill won a historic silver medal at the Grand Prix of Rostelecom last year, and were twelfth in the last World Cup. Now the challenge is Beijing 2022. Although Sara is clear: "Everyone dreams of an Olympic medal, but in reality what matters is what is happening now, that I can live skating and that is a dream".
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Production: Javier Torrijos | Realization: Juan Gutiérrez | Drafting: Sara Campos and Bea Lozano | Image: Carlos Matarranz, Alberto Bravo and Juan Gutiérrez | Sound: Giani Álvarez | Graphics: Nacho Félez and Nacho Sanz | Text: Sara Campos
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Acknowledgments: Ice rink La Nevera de Majadahonda, Kirill Jalyavin, Pilar Martín, Pili González, Iván Sáenz and Juan Vidal.
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I've gone through all of them and only left the links to the ones that are still available.
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