How Juan Manuel Celaya Conquered His Nerves and Won
Juan Manuel Celaya, a Mexican diver, finally won an Olympic medal in Paris after narrowly missing out in Tokyo. He credits his coach Ma Jin’s demanding training at the CNAR for his success.
The Mexican diver Juan Manuel Celaya Hernández managed to harvest his long-awaited medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games together with Osmar Olvera Ibarra, with whom he placed second in the 3-meter synchronized springboard, after three years ago he came close to the glory of getting on the podium in the Tokyo 2020 edition with a fourth place alongside Yahel Castillo in this same event.
“The Olympic Games are just another competition, they are a world championship but more people watch them, the only difference from how I was in Japan and what I learned from there, at that time Yahel (Castillo) told me how the summer competition was going to be with many people, cameras, noise, more excitement and adrenaline that fortunately helped me to solve this competition because I already knew what I was going to face and I had visualized it and it was more than I expected, but the work we did made it more manageable,” said the Nuevo León diver.
