The athlete Julio Rey announces his retirement because of back injury
* A vertebra is scrolled to oppress the sciatic nerve.
* Played his last marathon this weekend in Amsterdam.
* Finally, the discomfort forced him to abandon the race.
Julio Rey
The national marathon record holder, the Toledo Julio Rey, announced Wednesday his retirement from top flight but to porpósito a back injury that afflicts European since 2006 and has ensured that since then, it has “been very badly”.
King said in a press conference that the lumbar injury “was over” and when “was about to throw in the towel this spring,” two doctors Talavera (Albir and Nunez) gave the key: one vertebra had moved to press the sciatic nerve and no solution. Only he was ‘calm’ an epidural which helped him prepare his last marathon in Amsterdam on Sunday.
The athlete said that the decision has been very thoughtful. “He had very high expectations, but the final competition and sentencing, as he was eight miles, started the trouble and I was forced to retire,” said.
The athlete said that the decision has been very thoughtful. “If I had gone right, I had intended to hold out until next summer (European Championships in Barcelona) but could not be, unfortunately.”
At the end of his long career, King said he did not go “sad” that has achieved “great success” and expressed pride in being the current national record holder (2.6:52, Hamburgo’06), with a brand that is trusted overcome soon, “hopefully for the good of Spanish athletics.