The Galician Carlos Arévalo today won the last two selectives of K1 200 with which the process of the K4 500 selectable for the JJOO ends. In the two parliamentary tests this day in the regatta field of Trasona (Asturias), the order of arrival was repeated: Arévalo (1i), Craviotto (3i), Walz (2d) and Germade (2i), which appear in the image after reaching the goal, with the selector, Miguel García, at the bottom (Photo Jonah Pravia)

The national selective to define the K4 500 that will fight for the gold medal in the Games has concluded today with the two K1 200 tests, with victory in both of Carlos Arévalo and the absence of Cristian Toro and Carlos Garrote; after the completion of the tests, the Spanish Federation of Piragüismo will prepare a report that will determine the palists that will make up the crew.

The Galician Carlos Arévalo was imposed on the four K1 200 tests held these days in the field of regatta of Trasona, located in the Asturian municipality of Corvera... in the two spins today, held in private, to which Toro and Garrote did not present themselves, by medical discharge, Arévalo achieved the victory, followed in both by Saul Craviotto, Marcus Cooper Walz and Rodrigo Germade.

Miguel García: "After almost 14 days of controls, starting with the K-1 selectives and continuing with the K4 tests, the process has finally been completed, and now only the relevant report remains, with all the data that can be provided to this process. We hope that the decision on the selected crew will soon be made, and that we can start working at once for the JJOO, which is the target. There is very little time left and the rival countries are already working calmly and preparing that quote which is our obsession in 2021."

2021 / 03 / 13: Spanish announces the tests for Sunday... in private on the Trasona track

The tests will be held in private at the facilities of the Trasona regatta field in the Asturian municipality of Corvera

The national selective to define the K4 500 that will compete in the JJOO ends tomorrow Sunday in the regatta field of Trasona (Asturias) with the celebration of the K1 200 tests, in which Carlos Garrote will not participate, for medical leave.

The other five sticks that choose the four squares of the K4 500 selected for Tokyo - Saul Craviotto, Marcus Cooper Walz, Carlos Arévalo, Rodrigo Germade and Cristian Tor- have confirmed to the Spanish Federation of Piragüismo their presence in the tests in two spins among them, which will take place tomorrow, at 9 hours for the first test and at 10: 45 hours for the second; in the afternoon there will be a new run if in the morning session there are two different winners.

After the controls scheduled for tomorrow, the Spanish Piragüismo Federation will produce a report, and then report the ownership of the K4, one of the medal options in Tokyo.

2021 / 03 / 13: Next chapter of the Trasona... Garcia and Craviotto get their lawyers through

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The Royal Spanish Federation of Piragüismo convokes for Sunday, the 14th, a selective of K1 200 meters aimed at the six palists who choose the four squares of the K4 500 that will compete in the JJOO, thus continuing with the selection process. The athletes - Saúl Craviotto, Marcus Cooper Walz, Carlos Arévalo, Rodrigo Germade, Cristian Toro and Carlos Garrotto - are quoted in the race field of Trasona (Asturias) on Sunday, at 9: 00, for the first test in a run between them, and at 10: 45 hours for the second; in the afternoon there will be a new test if there are two different winners. After holding the controls scheduled for Sunday, the Spanish Piragüismo Federation will produce a report, and then report the ownership of the K4, one of the medal options in Tokyo. In addition to the collection of data collected throughout the season, the selection process to cover the squares included this week the holding of the tests in K1 200, with Arévalo's victory in both, and in K4 500, with two counter-clock for each of the three possible combinations, of which two tests remained undisputed due to the medical loss of Toro and Garrote.

The selector Miguel García and the four-fold Olympic medalist Saul Craviotto have sent a letter to the palist Carlos Garrote, through his lawyers, the Ius + Aequitas Office, in which they reject for "strict falsehood" the "serious accusations" made by him, accusing both of alleged manipulation of the selective's tests to determine the K4 500 that will compete in the JOO. In addition, they warn him of the "serious violation" that would involve the "alleged recording" of a conversation between the technician and the palist.

Coach Miguel García, who is responsible for the preparation of the winning palists of four Olympic medals in Rio, London and Beijing, reiterates his "absolute tranquillity" about any claim of his that could be part of the content of the alleged recording, and points out that "the removal of cuts that can decontextualize the conversation will not change reality."

In the request sent to Garrote - one of the six palists who aspire to the 4 places for Tokyo, along with Craviotto, Walz, Arévalo, Germade and Toro - the lawyers point out that the demonstrations are "manifestly contrary to reality and seriously harmful" to the right to honour of the technician and the palist.

Also, he has informed Garrote that it has been reported that he allegedly made a recording and later transcript of a conversation
private telephone held between Miguel García and Saul Craviotto on the internal selection tests.

"If true, it would entail a serious violation of the right to privacy of our clients and specifically to the inviolability and secrecy of their communications," the jurists abound, who warn Garrote that "the alleged recording in question and its transcription would have, if there were, a manifestly unlawful origin by involving an illegitimate interference in communications and a typically criminal discovery and disclosure of secret."

Finally, on behalf of its representatives, they require Garrote to refrain from revealing or disseminating to third parties by any means of social communication the content of the alleged illegal recording, including its transcription and from any public demonstration in this regard that may violate the fundamental rights of Miguel García and Saul Craviotto.

2021 / 03 / 11: El Culebrón de Trasona... the president of Spanish is trying to cover up the disaster of the selective

The explanations of Pedro Pablo Barrios, not only are not clarifying anything, but they are generating more tension in the already vicious environment that is breathing in Trasona...

The president of the Spanish Federation of Piragüismo, Pedro Pablo Barrios, today reaffirmed the "unconditional support" the selector Miguel García and the palists of the K4 500 selectable for the JJOO, and has added that the federal entity works for "resolve as soon as possible" who are the palists who come to Tokyo:"Our support is total to each and every one of our athletes, as well as to the technical team"the leader, who refuses to enter into controversy.

Barrios ratifies the back "unequivocal" a Saul Craviotto, Marcus Cooper Walz, Carlos Arévalo, Rodrigo Germade, Cristian Toro and Carlos Garrote, the six athletes who fight for the four squares to compete in Tokyo on the boat that will fight for the gold medal.

Today, in the Trasona (Asturias) race field, the second of the three scheduled counter-watch tests should have been held, at the end of which the crew of the three participating combinations would be won to perform the best time... the tests planned for today and tomorrow were suspended yesterday after the palists Cristian Toro and Carlos Garrote will present the medical discharge.

2021 / 03 / 10: The Skull of Trasona: Low Bull and Garrote... Craviotto, Walz, Arévalo and Germade follow

The current K4 world subchampion, made up of Craviotto, Walz, Arévalo and Germade, this morning made his counter-watch for the K4 that will compete in JJOO, on a day of time that presented as a novelty the medical leave presented by Carlos Garrote and Cristian Toro, following the tension accumulated these days.

The president of the Spanish Federation of Piragüismo, Pedro Pablo Barrios, sends a message of "tranquillity" and claims "absolute confidence" in the selector Miguel García, for whom he demands "respect" for being a technician of "impressive prestige," and of which he emphasizes that he is one of the "most laureated" coaches, as the four Olympic medals won by his athletes in Rio 2016, London 2012 and Beijing 2008 show.

The technical picture of the Spanish team will continue to work to find the best result in Tokyo... by the part of the K4 500 selector, Miguel García, has refused to "feed any controversy," and has recognized that the situation generated by instability is "affecting" the team, so he argues that "the less he gets into that better dynamic, we have to think about the JJOO and we can't lose the goal... it's a complicated process, there are 6 athletes who are Olympic or global medalists, and only 4 can go to the Games."

2021 / 03 / 10: Selective K4 for the Games... without proof today the Spanish guarantees the decision this week

The six pre-selected palists for K1 200 and K4 500, which are concentrated on the Asturian track, are medallists in the three years prior to the initial date of the JJOO on the two distances and ships

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The Spanish Federation of Piragüismo has decided today that the crew of the K4 500 will be decided this week, after agreeing that tomorrow the selection process will continue... the three combinations, composed of the six palists looking for a place in the Spanish K4, are Craviotto, Walz, Arévalo and Germade; Craviotto, Walz, Arévalo and Toro, and Craviotto, Garrote, Arévalo and Toro. The combination that credits the best time will compete in the World Cup, which will be held in the Hungarian city of Szeged from 14 to 16 May, and if you get a podium post, the four athletes that make it will have their presence in the Tokyo JJOO.

The selection of the crew of the Spanish K4 500 who will seek the gold medal in the JJOO will adjust the process, after the counter-clock test that Craviotto, Walz, Arévalo and Toro planned to be held today in the regatta field of Trasona, in Asturias.

Miguel García, the K4 coach, has decided to modify the road map of the internal selective following the tests held last week between the combinations integrated by Craviotto, Walz, Arévalo and Germade; Craviotto, Garrote, Arévalo and Toro, and Craviotto, Walz, Arévalo and Toro.

The technician, responsible for the preparation of four of the medal-winning vessels in the JJOO of Rio 2016, London 2012 and Beijing 2008, stresses that the difference of times may not respond to a single reason, as there are variables such as that the second day made it colder, that the output is made manual with pontoner and not automated, and the very activation of the athletes.

2021-03-08: Selective of Trasona... Craviotto, Walz, Arévalo and Germade mark the best time of the K4

The crew formed by Saul Craviotto, Marcus Cooper Walz, Carlos Arévalo and Rodrigo Germade, the current world subchampion, today achieved the best time (1m20s842), pending the next week of the second round, of the three combinations that take part in the selective that will determine the Spanish K4 500 that will fight for the Olympic gold in Tokyo.

The boat that will compete on the Nipona date will only have four of the six palists looking for a square, three Olympic champions - Craviotto, Toro and Walz-, a finalist in Games - Germad- and two world medalists - Arévalo and Garrot-.
The time marked today in the regatta field of Trasona (Asturias) by Craviotto, Walz, Arévalo and Germade is the best record (1m.20s.842) of those achieved by the three combinations raised, followed by the Friday accredited by Craviotto, Garrote, Arévalo and Toro (1m.24s.067) and of the Saturday made by Craviotto, Cooper, Arévalo and Toro (1m.24s.664).

The counter-clock tests with these three combinations will resume next Tuesday, and will continue on Wednesday and Thursday, when the K4 winner of the national selective will be known, which will be evaluated at the Szeged World Cup, from May 14 to 16, before competing in the Games.

The three K4 combinations put forward respond to parameters of performance, coupling value and confidence, and take into account the times accredited by each of the palists in the individual K1 controls... to the tests on the distance of 200 meters, add the results over 400 meters, in which the order of classification was as follows: Arévalo (1m16s59), Germade (1m17s41), Craviotto (1m17s51), Toro (1m18s68), Walz (1m20s10) and Garrote (121s36).

2021-03-06: Cooper already participated today in the K4 Selective for the Olympic Games

Cooper is already in the K4 selective for the Games, which is being held on the Asturian track of Trasona

The Olympic champion Marcus Cooper Walz, who today has integrated the K4 500 selectable for Tokyo, has shown his conviction that of the six candidates, the four who go to the quote "sure they will be to fight for the gold medal," and has emphasized: "it will be unfair for the two palists who are left or are out because we all deserve to go and win a medal."

The shooting has been the second of the six spins that the three established combinations take place in Trasona, from yesterday to Thursday next week, to define the Spanish K4 crew that will seek the podium in the JJOO.

Three Olympic champions - Craviotto, Walz and Toro - along with Arévalo - who won the K1 200 in Toki have formed the combination that this morning has contested their counter-watch. Yesterday they did Craviotto, Garrote, Arévalo and Toro. Tomorrow Sunday plays the turn to Craviotto, Walz, Arévalo and Germade... after the day of rest on Monday a second test will arrive each of the three combinations that will be distributed on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

2021-03-05: In Trasona first test for the K4 of Spain with Craviotto, Garrote, Arévalo and Toro

The Federation craves gold for the K4 in Tokyo