Friday, January 7, 2005

Paquillo racing way out East for the Russian Christmas sportsya.com/ (Mexico) [^] via Marchadores.com 06-01|15:28 hs. [^] the Spanish Olympic silver medallist in the 20 km walk, Francisco Fernandez, will dispute his first race of 2005 on Friday in eastern Russia. After training over Christmas in Poland with new technician, the Olympic champion Robert Korzeniowski, the Granadino athlete travelled the Russian city of Ekaterimburg to race indoors over kilometers against several Russian athletes, including Sevillá 99 world champion Ilya Markov. Paquillo said it is going to mainly work on [base "]speed and technique[per thou]. [base "]The training in Poland have gone very well. The Russians usually are strong at this point of season, and I am not used to competing in fast tests in these dates, I see difficult to be able to reach the podium positions[per thou]. The athlete will return to Spain on 10 of January after a period of concentration of two weeks in Warsaw with Korzeniowski during which he said that he has worried much about him in questions of technique and yield. His next appearance in Spain will be in the race that he himself has organized in Almeria, in the middle of February. 1:09:35 PM     comment []

	Saturday, December 18, 2004

Fernandez - Spain's Favourite athlete Via Andi Drake - 14 Dec 2004 - AP - Granada-born walker Francisco Fernandez has been named Spanish Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive year. 7:50:24 PM     comment []

	Friday, November 19, 2004

Paquillo puts his future into the hands of Korzeniowski XOSÉ I CASTRATE - La Voz dee Galicia - Robert Korzeniowski, the best walker of all the timeis the new trainer of Paquillo Fernandez, the Olympic and IAAF World Championship runner-up in the 20km kilometers walk. It is the culmination of one long friendship. Paquillo always talks about "my great friend" when speeking of Korzeniowski. The article goes on t osuggest that Paquillo may move up to 50km. 1:27:16 PM     comment []

Paquillo update..... Robert Korzeniowski to coach Francisco Fernandez according to Spanish reports. 1:13:53 AM     comment []

Paquillo 'the daily sacrifice of the high performace race walker is much like the discipline of the life in prison ... but the sport educates being to you a great person' Paquillo.com - Paquillo shared thoughts last week with the inmates of Albolote Penitentiary in which they debated about the importance of the education in the sport and life, part of a campaign of sport promotion of the penitentiary centers of Andalusia, organized under the motto 'Education through sport'. The Olympic runner-up spoke of the discipline of the daily sacrifice of the high performance sportsman, as being similar to the daily sacrifice that marks the discipline of life in prison. Paquillo described the importance of education in sport, for which it is fundamental to have a great teacher, in reference to its former coach Manuel Alcade, 'now I am a good student and perhaps soon he is a good professor'. The power of the sport practice is that it helps escape from problems was a question very shared by all the prisoners who reached the conclusion that 'the sport educates being to you a great person'. Paqillo.com has been updated, including some great shots of the Athens Olympic Games 20km. 1:09:21 AM     comment []

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