Mexico knows what it’s like to be on top of the world. Hand in hand with its athletes, all women, the country can rejoice in having the best representatives of cycling and archery in the world. The sporting joys fell first this Saturday when the Mexicans Daniela Gaxiola, Yuli Verdugo and Jessica Salazar triumphed in the World Championship of track cycling disputed in Canada. Thousands of miles away in Turkey on Sunday, Olympians Alejandra Valencia and Aída Román, along with Ángela Ruiz, shook up the archery world by being more perfect than Chinese archers.

Mexico has been criticized for not knowing how to win in team sports, but the media attention has focused solely on football. The only joint achievement of footballers was a commendable gold medal at the Olympics. The real triumphs have fallen on other sports battling to gain a foothold on television schedules. Gaxiola, Verdugo and Salazar won the track cycling final beating the locals. The Mexicans were faster than the Canadians, their main rivals, by a few thousandths of a second: 47,001 against 47,414. The result gives them income to climb the world rankings and play another international tournament in Glasgow. His triumph, however, reveals the fractures in the management of Mexican sport. The Mexicans traveled to Canada, but received a warning from the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sports (Conade) in which they warned them that they would not pay their travel expenses. Athletes, according to Process, they requested funds from their home states (Jalisco, Sinaloa and Baja California Sur) to cover expenses. La Conade, through its official broadcast channels, ignored the triumph of the Mexicans.

Mexican archers Alejandra Valencia, Aída Román and Ángela Ruiz won gold at the Archery World Cup in Antalya, Turkey. The trio beat China’s Zhang Mengyao, An Qixuan and Hai Ligan 6-0, with scores of 55-51, 55-54, 57-53. Valencia, 28, won the bronze medal two years ago with Luis Álvarez at the Tokyo Olympics, as well as three gold medals at the Pan American Games. Román, 34, is one of Mexico’s most successful archers, among her achievements are the silver she won at the London Olympics in 2012 and two gold medals at the world championships, individual and par. team, in 2014. While Ruiz, 16, just made his debut with the national team. The great feat of Mexican women was broadcast by Conade, chaired by former athlete Ana Gabriela Guevara.

Mexicans view football with suspicion after the resounding failure of the World Cup in Qatar. The eye is on other sports in which they see progress, such as baseball, where the Mexican team reached historic semi-finals in the World Classic or in motorsport with the best years of Checo Pérez in Formula 1 or Pato O’ Ward in IndyCar. . A year after the Olympics, Mexican athletes continue to do their best to try to qualify for Paris 2024 with or without reflectors.

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