Daniel Dhers gives Venezuela the third silver medal at Tokyo 2020

Venezuelan Daniel Dhers after finishing his competition this Sunday at the Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo (Japan) .Kai Försterling / EFE

Venezuela finds joy in the Olympic Games.

Daniel Dhers (Caracas, 36 years old), the number one competitor in the

BMX

ranking

, won the silver medal this Sunday.

This is the third metal won by the Venezuelan delegation after the two silvers of the weightlifters Julio Mayora and Keydomar Giovan Vallenilla.

Dhers has boosted his career abroad.

Tokyo 2020 marked the debut of the BMX free trial.

Dhers won the gold medal at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games. Before, when the sport was off the Olympic program, he won the Dew Action Sports Tour twice in 2007 and 2008. At the X Games he won five times.

Venezuela, abroad, had another elite sport after Yulimar Rojas.

“I had never heard our national anthem in a competition and since the sport became Olympic I had my doubts that I would ever make it.

But here it is!

One of the most emotional moments of my life, ”Dhers wrote on his social networks in 2019. Two years later the athlete who lives in Holly Springs (North Carolina) would take silver in the Olympic Games.

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“We were going for the gold, it was not possible, I did everything I could.

I'm too happy, I can't believe it.

I am the oldest runner here for like 10 years.

I know what it means for Venezuela, "he said this Sunday in a video that he uploaded to his social networks within minutes of the end of the test.

The gold winner, Australian Logan Martin, is 27 years old and the one who took the bronze was Declan Brooks, 25.

“One of my godparents gave me a bike when I was four years old and I didn't like it at all.

I remember that I had the support wheels, I rolled down the street, I fell, and I told my mother that I did not want that.

And I never saw the bicycle again.

It was only when I was 12 years old that my friends on the block began to ride their bikes and I was left alone, so I dusted off the bicycle, I hid so that they would not see learning, and I learned, "he said in an interview for the Olympic Games.

Today, at 36 years old, he celebrates an Olympic medal.

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