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Caterine Ibargüen does not stay still. Despite the fact that this year has not been easy for her and for athletics due to the suspension of the events, she has been thinking about what her life will be like for a long time, after retiring after the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.
Ibargüen He returned to the country last Thursday, like some Colombian athletes who were abroad. He had a meeting that day and there he expressed the option of aspiring to go to Congress of the republic.
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It is an idea that is around twice Olympic medalist for years, but now with his retirement close, he has put it to work.
Once he said it he spoke to Alexander Char, former mayor of Barranquilla and who sounds like a candidate for Presidency of Colombia, who expressed his support for Ibargüen to be part of his political party’s list for Congress.
In recent years, the country’s political parties have targeted celebrities and athletes to attract voters, such as the cases of Wllington Ortiz and María Isabel Urrutia. In that case, Ibargüen could be head of the list to the Senate to attract people.
The friendship between the Colombian athlete and Char is known and was consolidated in the Central American and Caribbean Games of 2018 and in the realization of the Grand Prix Caterine Ibargüen that was based in 2019 in the capital of Atlántico and that could be held in November 2020.
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Catalina Ibargüen was going to retire from the sport after the Tokyo Olympics 2020, but the jousts were postponed to 2021 and she decided to continue to take part in the jousts, but she already plans what her future will be.
While it is true that this aspiration to launch into politics is valid, in the sports fields it has not looked good, since they consider that she must, first, be focused and seek her best form with a view to the Olympics.
It is estimated that Ibargüen has serious aspirations to obtain good results, either in the triple jump or in the long jump., so that the start with your political idea could deviate it from its objectives, it is noted in the sports circle.
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