Xargay announced his temporary retirement a year ago, however, he made it official in July 2021, coinciding with other important departures such as that of Anna Cruz o Laura Nicholls. I was passionate about playing and I wanted another medal,” says the one from Gerona. It was a: I’m bigger than you, I’ll be able to with you. “I don’t know where I got the strength from. In the eyes of others, Marta Xargay had faced a good European, but no one knew that she had had to be even stronger to put aside, or at least for a time, her problems with food that also affected her career. While suffering from this disease, she competed in the 2019 European Championship and won gold with Spain, was the top scorer in the final against France, the second that played the most minutes in the tournament, and was chosen in the championship’s ideal quintet. His obsession reached the point of spending two hours in the supermarket looking at the components of all the products, until he lost his sense of reality. “I felt bad for eating, even if it was a salad … I did not enjoy the food, I would eat with anxiety and then I would go to the bathroom,” he confesses. Specifically, the medical diagnosis was bulimia and orthorexia. However, Mondelo’s practices of controlling the weight of the players collided with the orders of his psychologist that forbade him to weigh himself due to the eating disorder Xargay was suffering at that time. The former player acknowledges having lived this situation in silence but with the help of her partner, Breanna Stewart, and psychological care. He has had many comments, public and private, attacking me and getting to value my life private and my relationships “ At no time has he respected me, neither as a player nor as a person. ” Xargay speaks of disrespect and lack of respect in his case: “He has not known how to control his authority. I was feeling fine physically, but that made me very insecure, on and off the track. At that time, I weighed 67 kilos, and I’m 1.82m tall. This comment and many others in relation to her weight made her lose her self-confidence: “It’s hard, I’ve had a lot of problems with food because of this person. Xargay, which coincided with Lucas Mondelo at Dynamo Kursk in the 2018-2019 season, recounts an episode from that year in which the coach banned her and her teammate Sonja Petrovic eat dessert because according to him “they were fat.” I could not continue to endure unacceptable things,” confesses the Girona woman. “The moment came when I had to put the person before the athlete. Jorge Garbajosa, president of the FEB, asked the former player to delay it so that it would not interfere in the performance of the women’s basketball team at the Olympic Games. The confessions of the former player, made two days after the Spanish delegation traveled to Tokyo, have not seen the light until now. Marta Xargay reveals in an interview for El Pas that he suffered from bulimia and orthorexia (obsession with healthy food).
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