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México
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Name
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Date and city of birth
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Oscar
Soto Carrillo
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09/06/83
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How long have you
been playing pentathlon?
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How
long have you been in the national team?
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9
years
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6
years
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How
did you start playing pentathlon?
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How
did the athletes in your country start playing pentathlon?
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My
swimming coach talked me about the option.
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Most
of us started in a swimming team
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When
was your first good result?
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When
was your best result?
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In
Junior World Championships Sydney 2002, 2nd place (team)
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Olympic
Games Beijing 2008, 8th place.
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Where do you train?
Have you ever changed cities for training pentathlon?
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Where, in your country, is it possible to play high level
pentathlon?
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I have been training all my sports life at Mexican
Olympic Center
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Mexico city, Guadalajara and Monterrey.
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Who do you train with?
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Who do the other athletes of your national team train with?
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With
the junior and senior national team.
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All
of us train in the same team, coaches and schedule.
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How
many hours do you train a day?
And how many days a week?
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How
many hours do the others athletes of your national team train a day?
And how many days a week?
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6-7 hours per day, 6 days.
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6-7 hours per day, 6
days.
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What’s your job?
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What are the jobs of the other athletes of your national team?
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Pentathlon
and my master degree.
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Most
of them are students, because they are young.
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Are
you payed for playing pentathlon?
If
yes, who pays you?
Do
you earn enough to live on?
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Are
the other athletes of your national team payed? If yes, who
pays them?
Do
they earn enough to live on?
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2500 dlls per month, the government pay this amount and its enough
to pay my studies.
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Few of us are payed and the amount is according to the results.
800-2500 dlls per month.
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What’s the biggest difficulty in playing pentathlon in your
country?
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What do you think about combined event?
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The ridding training is the most difficult, because we don’t have
enough support by the authorities to practice this expensive event.
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It's hard to accept the change, lm adapting. l was happier with the
past format, but nobody asked me.
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What
do you think about www.pentathlonmoderno.it
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Do
you have some advice to give us?
Thanks from México!!
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