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Interview with Paris GOICO DE LARA (DOM)
Santo Domingo, 2 April 2008
We met with the young local star Paris GOICO DE LARA to ask him a few questions. Paris is Cadet World Champion, title that he won in Merida (MEX) in 2006. A few months before the supreme title, he participated in the Central American Games in Colombia where he won a Gold Medal at 30m, beating Jorge Jimenez (ESA), with an almost perfect score of 359 pts. He will be fighting hard in his home country to win a medal.
What does it feel to shoot a World Cup Stage in your home country?
It is great, but I have a lot of pressure, it is not the stress of the competition, but more the role I have to play here. I really cannot afford a wrong step or being ridiculous. I have to be careful because people count on me, and that is the big weight on my shoulders, even more than the competition itself. I have to show I’ve grown up and I can do it.
What good results have you had since 2006? In the last World Championships in 2007 in Leipzig (GER) I finished 89, but in the Continental Qualifying Tournament in El Salvador last year, I finished 4th. I am shooting an average of 690-691 pts in 70m Round, which is quite good to me. I hope I will be shooting about the same here.
This year, I will be going to Guatemala where a World Ranking Event will be shot, I hope to earn points for the World Ranking List (ndrl currently ranked 52). I will pass on my title in Turkey for the Youth World Championships to the next Cadet World Champion, but I hope to take the Junior title now that I am not Cadet anymore. We’ll see what future has got in the closet for me!
What are your expectations here then? I really hope I will be in the top 20 of qualifications, and go as far as I can in the matches; with all the good preparation I have had I really count on it. Then on the Team side I just hope to beat the American continent opponents.
What are your expectations for future? Actually, I will enter in the university this summer, but I will have the possibility to study in the morning and have free afternoons to train. I will of course train a little less than before, but not so much. Anyways, I don’t need to go to the Archery Field everyday to train, I can also do it at home some days, so I don’t believe there will be many changes. And I always say you have to give more of yourself than your time.
Anything else you would like to tell the world? Just that I feel very well prepared, I am confident in myself and that I hope to see the Archery Community again here for the next three years! We’ll be more than happy to welcome them all again.
Thank you Paris, and good luck!
Chantal Steiner FITA Communication
We met with the young local star Paris GOICO DE LARA to ask him a few questions. Paris is Cadet World Champion, title that he won in Merida (MEX) in 2006. A few months before the supreme title, he participated in the Central American Games in Colombia where he won a Gold Medal at 30m, beating Jorge Jimenez (ESA), with an almost perfect score of 359 pts. He will be fighting hard in his home country to win a medal.
What does it feel to shoot a World Cup Stage in your home country?
It is great, but I have a lot of pressure, it is not the stress of the competition, but more the role I have to play here. I really cannot afford a wrong step or being ridiculous. I have to be careful because people count on me, and that is the big weight on my shoulders, even more than the competition itself. I have to show I’ve grown up and I can do it.What good results have you had since 2006? In the last World Championships in 2007 in Leipzig (GER) I finished 89, but in the Continental Qualifying Tournament in El Salvador last year, I finished 4th. I am shooting an average of 690-691 pts in 70m Round, which is quite good to me. I hope I will be shooting about the same here.
This year, I will be going to Guatemala where a World Ranking Event will be shot, I hope to earn points for the World Ranking List (ndrl currently ranked 52). I will pass on my title in Turkey for the Youth World Championships to the next Cadet World Champion, but I hope to take the Junior title now that I am not Cadet anymore. We’ll see what future has got in the closet for me!
What are your expectations here then? I really hope I will be in the top 20 of qualifications, and go as far as I can in the matches; with all the good preparation I have had I really count on it. Then on the Team side I just hope to beat the American continent opponents.
What are your expectations for future? Actually, I will enter in the university this summer, but I will have the possibility to study in the morning and have free afternoons to train. I will of course train a little less than before, but not so much. Anyways, I don’t need to go to the Archery Field everyday to train, I can also do it at home some days, so I don’t believe there will be many changes. And I always say you have to give more of yourself than your time.
Anything else you would like to tell the world? Just that I feel very well prepared, I am confident in myself and that I hope to see the Archery Community again here for the next three years! We’ll be more than happy to welcome them all again.
Thank you Paris, and good luck!
Chantal Steiner FITA Communication
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