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Liliána Szilágyi, a Ferencváros European Championship silver medal swimmer and a two-time junior Olympic champion, announced on her club’s website on Monday that “He decided not to start a race until the summer of 2021. The 24-year-old swimmer agreed with the decision with the FTC, which helped Liliana not to swim competitively until the summer of 2021. The competitor also has the support of his coach, the swimming association and his club, Ferencváros, and they all wait back at the edge of the pool ”.
So far the announcement, which pretty much means the 24-year-old athlete will skip the Tokyo Olympics. That would have been the third of his career after 2012 (London) and 2016 (Rio de Janeiro). We can only guess what’s behind the decision, the above statement states that
I did not retreat, I did not stop swimming, I just have to stop and take care of myself, my body and my soul, fix it. I am young, I can be a champion again, I can achieve great results. And I also want to achieve …
Also that
They don’t know what I went through, I’m going through Maybe it’s better to put it this way, I need time. They say we are human. A machine has no feelings, I have one. I asked for and got Fradi time for not being able to be grateful enough.
Szilágyi said that he would not speak to anyone for a long time, but Andrea Orosz.
Csaba Sós The federal captain salutes the floating decision of the member of the national team, remarked that it would have been good for him if Liliana had at least called her, but this has not happened in recent months. The specialist told us a week ago that they hadn’t seen Liliana in the pool for a long time, but then we didn’t give it much importance. “I don’t resent it, the poor have enough problems”, he added, testifying to Salt’s deep empathy.
Szilágyi’s coach is Shane Tusup. Volt? When we approached the American coach, we only got to his spokesperson, who said that Fradi didn’t want them to comment on Szilágyi’s Temporary Retirement (?), And they would stick with that.
We are here now
Huge but unstable talent
Liliána Szilágyi’s career, few remember, began in the workshop of the legendary coach Sándor Széles, who died three years ago, at The Future SC Veolia. “It came to me specifically at the request of Uncle Dezső,” Széles said at the time, referring to Liliána’s grandfather, Dezső Gyarmati. (He learned to swim in Széchy SE, but as of 2009, when Széles and his wings Balázs Virth – now the master of the world champion Boglárka Kapás – “treated”, then Lilu’s career began.) In 2011, with a time of 2: 12.97 minutes, he took first place in the European youth ranking in a 200-meter butterfly, in 2012, in Antwerp 2: 10.53 minutes later he became European Junior Champion in the same number.
He started at the London Olympics in a 100-meter butterfly, and here he suffered the first serious failure of his life: more than a second behind his best level, in 1: 00.34 minutes he finished sixth in his career and was eliminated. Then he cried in one of the secluded corners of the pool, and only one person went there to comfort him: Shane Tusup. (All of this was revealed by the swimmer in an interview last year when she spoke about why American coach Long Katinka entered her ex-husband’s “barn.”)
The year 2013 already found Liliana in Kőbánya SC, and György turi under his hands, it develops further as a result of the killer trainings. He won a silver medal in the 200 meter butterfly championship in Dubai (2: 09.46) but he is not happy with this result. For safety, it is also second to 100 m Butterfly (58.73).
2014 is Liliana’s best year yet. At the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, he wins butterflies of 100 (57.67 seconds) and 200 meters (2: 06.59 minutes), the latter with a youth world record, and has not been able to improve on this result since.
At the 2015 Kazan World Cup, he will start seventh with a 200-meter butterfly, not even a hundred. He broke up with George Turi, who later declared to the author of these lines that
Liliána Szilágyi no longer did the training that everyone required, and at 58 years old I cannot and do not want to change.
The next stop in September 2015 was Bp. Honvéd, where her father, the four-time Olympian Zoltán Szilágyi and László Kovács took over Liliána’s professional direction.
We want to change for professional reasons, we want to do something different. Turi’s uncompromising maximalism in the training sessions was already difficult for Liliana to follow, towards the end she was already suffering from these training sessions, and since she went to a very strong high school, we asked for relief. This was given by Turi, but after a while there was no more commitment, the father told me then.
A new coach every year
Liliana until 2012 Széles Sándor He was a student of Gyurtá, and the emphasis was not on quantity but on quality; It is unprecedented that Szilágyi trained even in the afternoons, five or six times a week, even at fifteen. This had obviously changed in Turin, that is, it would have changed, but the forced engagements did not allow Liliana to complete the training doses of the other Turi disciples.
I want my daughter to enjoy swimming, and even if she gets tired at night, she goes back down to the pool the next day with a smile. My friend László Kovács, my former competitor, Vasas’s coach, will help me with this – said the father with a degree in vocational training.
Liliana went back under the hands of Kovács “Kokó”, in May she swam 57.54 seconds in vain in the final of the 100-meter butterfly at the European Championships in London, she was only 2 hundredths of a second from the podium, and then two days later in the final of the 200 meters butterfly 2: 07.24 seconds, she came second to the finish line, a century behind the German winner Franziska Hentke. Everyone thought that the Beijing Olympics would bring Lilu’s triumph.
The 19-year-old super talent from Bp. Honvéd found his statement somewhat frenzied, then nationally striking, which was followed within a few months by one or two more unspecified genres of live broadcasts:
Now I am the second in Europe […], but all this is not interesting, it should happen now and not at the Olympics. Then I will be the best.
Lilu said, and then 50 days before the Olympics, she fired her coach, Kovács, and with him, not mistakenly, her father, with whom she has not had a conversation since. Now we know that at the Olympics he failed to reach the final in his final success in London in the tenth fastest time, it is true that instead of László Kovács József Szabó, Zsolt Csende, Gábor Ramocsa a triumvirate led Lilu where, to find the answer in the Rio protocol.
In September 2016, it was announced on the American professional portal Swimswam.com that the two-time junior Olympic champion will be a student at the University of Florida in Gainesville starting in January 2017 as a fellow, training Gregg troy, the legendary Ryan lochte run by his former coach. Until then, János Egressy, the head of TFSE, embraced him.
There is no reason for me to say yes, but, what I deny, I felt sorry for Lilu. I know there is no point in training someone for three months, but I could still do it. If nobody needs to be poor anymore.
And he agreed.
A brief adventure in Florida
The adventure in Florida didn’t last long either, and after Liliana finished ninth and two hundred and seventh at the 2017 World Cup in Budapest, she announced on her Instagram profile on September 25 that the Brazilian Arilson Silva He will be his coach, but not anywhere, but in Ukraine. Liliana was actually disqualified from Gainesville University in September 2017 when it was revealed that in the meantime she was being paid at her club, Honvéd, and was also competing in cash prizes, which is not compatible with the strict fan rules of the American universities, right? (Kovács claims that it was agreed that he would receive thirty percent of the money for his competitions, Szilágyi has not shared his income with him at the time, according to the technician, he owes him more than one million florins).
So the next stop in the winding race was Ukraine. In the fall of 2017, after the failed World Cup in Budapest, Szilágyi fell under the wings of Arilson Silva, a Brazilian “star coach” who greeted the main competitors of the Ukrainian team. Silva used to be the world’s top 100 meter fast holder, Olympic champion, Cesar Sky Filhót trained, and Joao Gomes Junior. A small beauty flaw is that the latter was banned in 2015 for half a year for doping.
Then it turned out that the Brazilian, who was considered a miracle worker, was not, and after the European Championships in Glasgow in 2018, Lilu appeared in Népliget after the also not very successful (sixth place in 200 butterflies with weak weather) Ákos Molnár became her coach, although he was not officially certified by Ferencváros until 2019. Meanwhile, the American sports channel ESPN filmed a high-profile portrait film about the almost sickly outgoing Szilágyi, who revealed on his blog on a website of women who had suffered bulimia for years.
The 2019 Kwangju World Cup didn’t really work out either, he finished sixth with 100 butterflies in 100, 200, and then changed coaches again after the World Cup, and now Shane tusuppal I’m still working. As he put it in an interview with National Sports, “We have dismantled my technique and are putting it back together now.” However, the assembly did not go too well, because Federal Captain Csaba Sós did not take Lilu to the European Short Track Championships in Glasgow in December 2019, and not because of what the competitor claimed, that is, that Tusup was. pecking but
At the moment, Lilu is not fit to start a continental tournament. He swam a time of 2:18 in 200 butterflies at the World Cup, which is clearly an indication of a lack of training.
Meanwhile, Tusup’s You Tube channel continued to operate. Olympic dark horse video stream, which was intended to demonstrate the readiness of Szilágyi and the other competitors from the Tusup stable in Tokyo, but eventually By David Földházi in Bujdosó, Zsombor and italian Ilaria Cusinatón through polish Wojciech Wojdakig and brazil Nana Almeidáig they all dropped out but joined in the fall Peter Holoda! Tusup became more and more involved in football: With Balázs Dzsudzsák, Ádám Bogdán, János Hahn and especially With Dominic Szoboszlaibut the tennis player Babos Tímea he also appeared with him, in fact, the American handyman in III. The district football team NB III has also hired their physical coach.
But at that time, the news about Liliana was no longer very strong, as we mentioned, little had been known about it by the leaders of our swimming sports since September. Until Monday came the shocking announcement of a temporary retirement (?).
We can only deduce what the figure is now. Ferencváros – as indicated in our newspaper Andrea Orosz, head of the department – pays Liliana’s salary, the Gerevich scholarship is also awarded to the swimmer, and even her coach, Shane Tusup, is entitled to receive the 800,000 florins per month.
And Liliana, apart from the interview with Fradi-hu, is shrouded in silence. Obviously it is not easy for him, 24 years of his life until now, presumably, he has spent fighting against the burden imposed by the almost unrepeatable successes of his ancestors. This fight has crushed his physical and mental strength.
But he is only 24 years old. Perhaps there is a new beginning.
Not necessarily in the pool. There is life beyond that.
Definitely less stressful.
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