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Daniel Frankel in an interview: "After giving birth everything is easier" | Israel today

2023-02-13T07:46:08.906Z


The difficulty in attracting women to the industry, the pressure brought by the combination of law and professional sports, new parenthood and the ambition to participate in the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 • Daniel Frankel (35) recently returned to compete in the high jump after a year and a half, with insights about herself in particular and women in general


High jumper Daniel Frankel has already been through everything in her career.

From severe injuries, surgeries that disabled her for a long period of time and the replacement of her left leg - to unforgettable moments, performances on the biggest stages of the industry, breaking records and collecting titles.

Last week, who was the first woman in Israel to jump to a height of more than 1.90 meters, returned to compete again, after a year and a half outside the world of athletics - this time for a particularly happy reason, when she became a mother for the first time and gave birth to her eldest daughter Ariel.

Now, when she is 35 years old, running a family and working as a full-time lawyer, Frankel is not so quick to give up the sport she loves so much, and is also trying to fulfill the dream of every athlete, and reach the Olympic Games for the first time.

"It was difficult, strange and exciting to come back," Frankel said in an interview with Israel Hayom, after the first competition in Hadar Yosef in which she returned and won.

"I came to have more fun this time. It's true, it's still a competition and there's excitement, which makes it difficult for you to be too loose, but I came this time with the attitude of: 'How fun that I can jump again, that I'm where I'm comfortable.'"

In the previous cases you came back after an injury, and this time it was for a happy reason, what differences do you see?

"It's similar because of the length of time, the long period of not being in the stadium, training and competing, but it's different because of the circumstances, when this time I arrive much more liberated, because I know I'm doing it not only for me, but also for my daughter who came to watch the competition."

How is it to combine sports with motherhood?

"It's not just that, you have to remember that I'm also a full-time lawyer.

I have help, and I also start from the point of assumption that I will not arrive perfectly at training or the competition, and there is something liberating in that as well.

It's impossible to arrange everything to be as it should be, for example: even now, the night before the competition, Ariel got up at a quarter to 3 in the morning and I didn't sleep the best.

I know it's okay and that's how it will be from now on."

with the family.

They will also come to competitions, photo: private album

Did you come back mainly because of the pan or did you set yourself a goal?

"We'll see how everything progresses, how my body will accept the load. It's true that I continued to train during pregnancy, but I didn't jump. I'm now at a stage where I'm training hard to improve, and want to see how I react and where I'll end up."

We recently saw that the wrestler Ilana Kartish returned after another birth, what do you say about athletes who take time off to give birth?

"Perhaps this is also the reason why I came back, because just at the last Olympics in Tokyo there were three jumpers who are mothers, and it is known that many female athletes do their best after giving birth. My coach, Anatoly Shafran, also said that female athletes after giving birth are stronger, also mentally - because as a mother You deal with other things, physically too. After everything the body goes through during pregnancy, everything seems easier."

Paris is preparing for the Olympic Games.

Will Frankel be there?, Photo: AFP

It seems that the high jump for women in Israel has gone a little backwards in recent times, do you think so too?

"Of course we went backwards. In 2018 we had five jumpers who cleared 1.80 meters. It's a shame, it's a product of sports in Israel. The bodies that should have leveraged it didn't leverage it, because the results I did then, with the Israeli record and the competition with Maayan Furman, brought jumpers. But it's not enough just to bring them, but also to make them stay. I was drawn to it, but young jumpers realize that it's not worth it to them."

So what are the chances of seeing you at the Paris 2024 Olympics?

"It's a city where I reached my peak and I'm dying to go back there, and I'm working on it. You can wish me to reach the Olympics and also to have a happy and healthy family."

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Source: israelhayom

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