Milton Wynants and his medal at the Olympic Games: “Time passes and it seems that it was yesterday”

The times changed. Milton no longer runs or has the trade that attended in Paysandú. But his old companion, the bicycle, continues to accompany him. Today from another place. Transfering knowledge and trying that, that led him to sports glory, he does not die.

When a new anniversary of obtaining the silver medal achieved in the Sidney 2000 Olympic Gamesthe exciclist Milton Wynants He was honored in the Uruguayan Parliament.

And while the deputies spoke and reviewed their history, Milton’s memory stuck a return for the past, remembering their exploits.

“The truth is incredible, 25 years went from the medal and it seems that it was yesterday, because every year people remember me and make me revive. Time passes but that seems that it was yesterday and the truth is that it is very exciting,” The excicist said in the Radio Uruguay Radio Rights program.

Wynansts no longer has its bicycle workshop. He closed it to devote himself to teaching in the velodrome that bears his name in Paysandú. There he works as an instructor with his lady, Marlene, with boys who go from 6 to 16.

“Five years that I am working with a departmental cycling school and is done in a good way, wanting to get smaller boys who were the ones who gave life to the velodrome,” expressed in the note.

The former medallist added: “The velodrome that was in a state of total abandonment was conditioned. Five years ago it was anyone’s land and today we have a much better velodrome than it was. Now we have to continue growing, that they come smaller, and improve the facilities because the reality at the level of South America is that we are far away. We have to be realistic, we cannot lie, it is an improved velodrome, but being the newest of Uruguay does not serve the most of Uruguay. The current ones are 250 ”.

Wynants continued talking about his concern to foster cycling saying: “It is not easy to hook the boys, but at the national level we are the ones who have more between 6 and 16 years. But it costs yes, because cycling has its cost, it is not like a football court where with a couple of champions you can practice. We dressed as a cyclist. ”

The medalist in Sidney said that: “After that medal I continued competing and looking for other results, for example, in 2001 in a World Cup in Belgium, 2002 to win a World Cup, 2003 Los Panamericanos, 2004 The World Cup in Greece where we achieved a participation with Margalef in the Madison test that is another historical achievement, such as being tenth. Then I have that thorn of the reason why, after winning the medal, the medal was not continued.

Wynants expressed: “Now that’s it, repenting is late, but it would be good to foster, seek support and scholarships, to encourage cyclists who have not dedicated themselves to track cycling.”

For now, Wynants’s legacy is latent since his daughter Luciana, 23, will participate in the next World Cup.