Emilio Falla , atleta glorioso en BMX de Ecuador con muchas aventuras para compartir.

Emilio Falla un atleta glorioso del deporte Ecuatoriano compartió su tiempo con Alejo Vargas para hablar con profundidad sobre BMX y su laureada trayectoria en el deporte.

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Name: Emilio Falla
Age: 35
Hometown: Quito, Ecuador
Plate number: 50
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Ministerio del Deporte, Avent Bombshell, Tangent, Tioga, Box, Troy Lee Ecuador, Riders365, Odi, Onyx---The FAT favorite list----Track to race on: Bogota, SX

-Favourite Race: Berlin SX
-Food: Sushi
-Gym: Rockwell Gym
-Person on Instagram: Connor McGregor
-Travel destination: California
-People to ride with: Zack Vankeman
-Trainer/Coach: Tony Hoffman
-Pump track: Temecula
-Car: Range Rover Sentinel


-Elite Men racer: Sam Willoughby
-Elite Woman racer: Mariana Pajon
-Most skilled rider: Renaud Blanc
-Former racer: Christophe Leveque

-Drink: Old Parr, Monster
-Gate pick: 4
-Website: fatbmx
-BMX race announcer/speaker: Mike Redman
-Video game: Fight night
-Podcast:  El show de Alejo Vargas BMX . 

-Photographer: Felix Checa
-Filmer: Gaven Ayala
-Girl/Boy: Ester Esposito( Movie star)
-Sport besides BMX: UFC
-Party: Adelaide 2009

Credits:  https://www.fatbmx.com/bmx-racing/item/53849-fat-favourites-list-with-emilio-falla-ecu
Pic Credits:  https://www.fatbmx.com/bmx-racing/item/53849-fat-favourites-list-with-emilio-falla-ecu

Episode Transcript

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Or Ridenshrady, Das Graves and BSS. Thank you, hello. How you

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are welcome to the first BMX podcastin Spanish, the Alejo Vargas Show BMX
Podcast. This episode recorded today fromsomewhere in California in the United States.
Thank the sponsors, our sponsors,Platinum Gol and Silver in Platinum wo bm

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X Club Silver, Paldway Podcast Networkand also Capital BMX, which makes it
impossible for this episode of podcast toreach many ears in Colombia and Latiname.
Today I have a very special guest, also because it is from a brother

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country of Colombia. He' sa top- level runner. He has
always been at the best events inthe world of BMX, many years dedicated
to this sport. It is fromthe brotherly country of Ecuador, where today
Ecuador has great talents that come indevelopment, adding, training clues. Let

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us remember that a while ago itwas the Pan- American in Rio Bamba
in Ecuador and Bueno cinema much preamble. Don' t forget to share on
your social networks. Every time wehave a new episode of the first BMX
podcast in Spanish, five consecutive yearsmore than seventy episodes published. I am
Alejo Vargas and welcome Emilio. Miss, hello, Emilio, how are you?

(01:49):
Hello, Alejo. Thank you somuch for the opportunity, great to
have you here in California and nothappy to be able to chat with you
and all the listeners who are alwayslistening to you for a while. Thank
you very much, thank you,Emilio, well let' s start talking.
Time is gold, but there aremany things to talk to Emilio miss
emilio. Let' s say thatin a summary aside, how good it

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has been, how was your beginningsin the bm wantera we will talk about
everything that you achieved and everything thatyou are today, how were those good
beginnings. I started vicycling it's very small. My dad worked at
the head of the PICE and visicusat the time. From what he says.
I' m the third of all. I' m my daddy'

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s last son, a kid whosaid I was super creative, very active.
So one day my mom took himto say that she was already tired
of how she was where she was. That day, my dad closed the
office and took me to see howthey trained in front and nothing. I
fell in love with sport. Itold him I want to have a bike.
I bought a bike for Christmas andI told him I wanted to start
being bicycle X when I was big. So I told him I wanted to

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be big at the time, andthat' s what I started getting involved
in the BMX from the beginning very, very, very recently what I remember.
When we started from Ecuador I didn' t have very big expolements,
but so far I remember that myfirst international event that my dad took me

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to Caracas at that time, SantiagoSilva was already world champion and they had
Santiago Duque as well. If I' m not mistaken, and they'
re the ones who approached my dadyour son. It is very good and
you should buy a better bike,because it has a chrome bike that made
me Ecuador, drilled with a lotof holes to relieve it and there they
bought me my first bike light alltitanium, because I think they also ran

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with something. So they gave himthe idea and then, step forward,
I arrived and won the world chapter. And that' s where I think
that little bug always stayed to goto the world championships and I always say
that having been a world champion soearly was what kept me very active always
because that was my goal. Everyyear I was growing online, seven eight
years, and so on. Howmany times Emilio world champion, in what

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years, where he went, whereyou were world champion, in which countries,
in which worlds. Before talking alittle bit about the elite category,
the professional category, well, theonly version of the world. It was
my first World Cup and then itwas my goal. All the times I
stayed now I am six times eighthin the world of fifty passed right now

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in this world all five times Ifell in the world and was one of
the most frustrating things than twice,sixth, one fourth. So yes,
it was an era, an era, an era, a Let' s
say an athlete who almost always cameto the finals, but I was never
given the world contract again, becauseI almost always was or wanted to win
or wanted to be last. AndI almost always fell because I wasn'
t a kid who was going tolook for the doublew at the time,

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but I was just going to tryto win again. So I think that
was the subject of my head alwayshow it worked and I was going super
sad at that one moment, whatI tell everyone was the hate that the
sport would tell him. As soonas he was tied up that he was
adopted in the world and he wasthrown out of it, my dad'
s anger, who was the closestperson he was traveling with, came in.
I was telling him that because Ihate this sport, because I'

(05:14):
m doing about 20 minutes of thatday, you' re abels that I
mean to come back worldwide. SoI think that part when people tell me
what' s done for a longtime and I say yes, because one
had a very, very, verysuccessful dad in how to handle a child
who was very good, he's small and as he never impressed me
in things it was always me,but also the fact that things were not

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always given to me as I alwayswanted being that I had to go and
fight them and it was always likethe next, next time back And now
that I see him, at thattime he said I didn' t win
the World Cup and I ran withpeople like Team Castro who won five times.
Not my category and I saw andsaid but in the Pan American I
won. But, well, that' s how I won then, but
I always did. Now, asI see, all the boys come looking
for a double time. It isa very big goal and for some it

(05:57):
is very difficult to sing. Butat that time, when I was going
to run, it was like somethingI felt assured that I was going to
grab a double w And if itwasn' t the one, it was
like it wasn' t serving meno, but as time has changed and
as I see it now, it' s a successful sports career in what
was the whole amateur stage. Forme person apart, he won a lot
of pan- Americans. It wasI think I won seven consecutive American champions

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in total that I have like nineor ten Pan American championships in the junior
category. Also on the medaller Ialso have two pan- American medals of
one of bronze platidos in elite.Then not the truth. I' ve
run a lot of time, butmore than anything, as I say,

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it always keeps me involved because Ihad a great guide, which was my
dad, that there was never apressure, but it was always more than
everything, because I wanted to stayin this sport that was what passionate me
from Chiquita Wow. We could talkhours and hours about the career of Emilio
Falla, brother of Ecuador, brotherof the Colombians and who now sees the

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BMX from a position. I thinkmore interesting with all the experience, with
all the knowledge acquired during so manyyears of racing. Today we went to
lunch, because it is precisely hisbirthday that makes it more special even I
didn' t know I heard aboutthis morning when we were having lunch.

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Emilio was telling me about his latestcoach experience. He was telling me that
he is passionate about being a coachand that he had a nice experience a
while ago in the Pan- Americans, in Ecuador, in Rio Bamba.
How was that experience now, asthey say, to see the bulls from
the barrier and to see a triumphof a boy, of a student with

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whom he follows sports. Well,as I was telling you, it was
super special because when I started workingwith the two thousand and twenty, it
was a boy, he' schubby. No, so he taught her
how to feed her and change alot of things and he decided to trust
me, obviously, and stay herein California. So it' s someone

(08:11):
we say is my first pupil thatI' ve been molding into that we
tried a lot of things and thatfor a whole year we were given.
We weren' t given anything.Not sometimes for lack of result, sometimes
also for injuries, sometimes for alittle lack of race that I think is
indisputably something very important to put inthe categories Championship you have to be in
the play, but it is verydifficult to get to an event and not

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be but he, he I askedhim just the year before the pueroamerican,
I told him to stay here untilthe preseason. Pass Christmas, pass New
Year. I did that when Ileft for my first Olympic Games, decided
to take everything away and stay inSwitzerland. He' ll be there.
I don' t remember the twenty- five di was always making picks on
the velodrome that I never did inEcuador, but I said I have to
do this in order to reach thisgoal that Kerrange and I told him to

(08:54):
give me that opportunity, stay herethat Christmas happens to you with me,
passes New Year and he rose incredibly. Then I remember. When the year
began, I had told him mydad and my son how to do it.
Dad always called me and I tellhim if you all give it to
him, everyone' s gonna winporpoamerican, but you know how MX'
s BMX is. It' sa sport that you need some luck on
that day and sometimes, because he' s faster and they give you things,
he came out and everything' slined up he doesn' t think

(09:16):
there' s anyone who beats him. So that we went around in February
a race and it ends up fallingand the cross ligament is damaged. So
for me it was a bullet,a cold one, because I said it
was over all year when they saidmaybe she had to have surgery. I
had a lot of expectation of himin that year and at the end he
was already going to go when againI tell him not to wait here let

(09:37):
' s talk with tospician and seeif there is how to rehabilitate you here
Robella we find of physiotherapist and theywere able to rehabilitate him in an incredible
way of raplio and came back andthen, well to see if I wouldn
' t say, I traveled rightfor this event and I many times more
than I trained them sometimes for importantevents and I stay here this time.
They all organized with the athletes thatI train, that go, that accompany

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them and that is that week inEcuador. So having lived that experience is,
as I say, one much morenervousness. He gets more nervous than
when you' re going to run, that' s more than anything.
Also when they' re running ina super game I think you know everything
that can happen in blows, injuries, falls and you see everything much tighter
when you' re there running.You' re in control, but when

(10:24):
you see everything far away, you' re all a lot tighter. The
cías sounds the tires. So thatday, just that week, he even
got sick. Then I remember theysaid it couldn' t be that base.
I mean, she was sick.We were in the hospital, they
had to give him a lot ofmedicine. He hit migdalitis. But,
well, he had what' simportant to the vision he had. He
had a long time visualized what camelwas going to win you in training.

(10:48):
He had bought a shirt with thenumber one basketball and I remember that you
had shoes in it, with thisboxer. He had very, very recorded
this then I think what the mindsees at the end of everything general and
makes it reality. Not then hehad this and I, as a coach,
had a lot, a lot offaith in that. But at the
end of that, I also saidagain that many things can change on that

(11:09):
day. One of those was whatgot sick. I didn' t know
if I was gonna be able tolast a whole day in a high-
altitude race, since he had preparedhimself in California, that we weren'
t in height. So when theday began I saw it progressed and each
time it advanced and already when itwon the semifinal, I said well,
I lack only finale and I hadnever been so I had never seen it.
Also not so focused. He cameout when he doubled the first cure.

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First, that' s me,the first thing I think about is
how it comes out, that's like it' s going away,
it' s not going back,it' s not going back, it
didn' t go wrong, itmade a perfect turn. Just think that
in the last corner jelse Andrade ofColombia almost gets into it and gives it
a nudge and could not do anythingand then it was when wake happened that
I ran out to make the bottle. It was the first one to give
a hug, because I think,as an athlete, it was a lot

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of defeats and the most amazing thingabout this guy, above all, was
that he never let himself be defeated. It was always like at the time
I said how much more than everythingI' m teasing with injuries, because
one thing is bad results than otherthings, some injuries of the athlete.
I say it very much because yousay again, you confess me again not
to find this one by then hehad many repetitive things and I said at
some point more to say it nomore and I would not have expected myself,

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but I had many all my follow. Then the fact that in that
year, when he passed the orody, has come to win with American.
So there' s the only thingthat didn' t summon him from the
selection. He did it in frontof his dad, who had to have
been sick last year. Then hewent in front of his whole family,
His mom, there was his grandmother, his brothers, my parents came to

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see me as a new role,let' s say, not sports,
but as a coach. It wassomething incredible I, as I mean,
it came out to tears because theywere saying, it' s seeing him
realize a boy, a dream thatI tell him I don' t know
how many more of those moments he' ll have, but that' s
what I' m saying is oneof the most important I' ve ever

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seen and I' m telling youessential price. Not there because I have
other hits. Great achievements have beenmade, but I couldn' t be
there because I see it from afar, so I' m all far from
there. I mean, I guessit happens to all the jobs that are
there all the time in all theircareers. Not the pride you feel and
happiness. So it' s beensomething I think that' s what I
told you that many times for usathletes, when we' re so involved

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in the sport and when we turnthe page, we don' t have
this adrenaline or this thing that wedon' t know what' s going
to happen. And what I feltthat day, let' s say,
is that, like, it keepsyou alive still being a coach for one
of these guys who are in highperformance and everything keeps you as yet because
I have an indescribable experience, becausebesides it' s a lot of work

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and things that you might not doand you want to correct so that they
don' t get it wrong,like maybe you were wrong at some point
in your sports career. Then guidethem from the topic of how to get
sponsorships, what to do where totrain, and not only with training,
but many times how to guide themin the mental part and how the challenges
they will encounter day by day intheir sports career. Emmy, you just

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touched on a theme, because thisis learning. Every time a person comes
to share their experience on podcast,you learn new things and this is a
question that arises and I am surethat many Elite riders will do it or
will continue to do it. Butwhat you' re counting on, you

(14:26):
' ve already moved on. Nowyou' re still competing, you'
re teaching how to make an eliteunderstand when it' s time to look
for another future in the BMX race. I feel that some like it was

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over and there ended the relationship withthe BMX, but in this case Emilio
fails from Ecuador. Now keep competing, now it' s in bet pro
How it' s done to assimilateis or, how it' s done
to find that americ answers. Ithink it' s hard. I think
first of all, when we talkabout it, when I was at the

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MIMAX, I would never have thoughtI would have participated in a cleanup.
I didn' t then when westarted at the BMX, the BMX wasn
' t Olympic. Here. Iremember one day my mommy gave me a
gift when I raised the most Olympicsfrom a job I had done in English
at school, saying that I wantedto be a very young man and win
the car and that we were alreadydiverted. I didn' t do this
and I have it in my house, okay, but I don' t

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know if I would have wanted togo back to the state I had of
meaning, to think so I wassaying in the BMX or some other sport,
because the BMX wasn' t evenclose to being Olympic at the time.
So I think that when you classifiedthe Olympic Games, you get to
such a high stage of LACSPI let' s say you' re Olympic that
sometimes you say what else there is, what more day obviously, there are
the medalists that, obviously, likeMaris and Mariana, who also seems to

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say that more, what more thereis after this, but for me I
think I' ve always been,I' ve always been very believer and
I' ve always said that aslong as they give an open door,
that it hasn' t been closed. Not all of it, because I
' m not going to tell youthat many times my sports career could have
been closed. And it happens toso many who may already see that things
get difficult and if not, I' m going to put these other things

(16:18):
on. But maybe not. Idid say there' s always one thing,
if it was an open door.And I' m still going to
continue in this sport because I feelthat each person is born with a gift
and I believe faithfully that my giftwas this that I was born, since
I was very good at this,in the sport, yes, but in
what I got involved in this andas I started closing my sports career,

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I started training guys, so Isaid, how is that not going to
be one of my something that Ican teach and maybe create or generate a
lot more talent than the idea isthat they are ten times better than I
did and that they can win alot more things. But why. Because
I was the pioneer, I feellike I could have done a lot better,

(17:02):
but since I was the first one, you' re wrong, you
' re broken, so it comesin the part of me. How can
I help them so that that doesn' t happen to them? Many times
I tell them. I would havewanted my dad to tell me at the
age of twenty- one in theUnited States, after the Olympics, don
' t stay here in Ecuador,because there was nothing in Ecuador. Or
that I tell them I tell themnow, that is, to be here
in the United States. A lotof people do. Here' s the
kill, which is a very highlevel. Here are the brands of BMX

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that can continue to support them.I didn' t see that, but
I don' t think maybe itwasn' t because someone had to tell
me what he was like first.I didn' t have it. So
here' s the thing about whatyou' re talking about about the sports
thing, too. I never startedrunning in bet pro but I spent my
last career, my last years ofcareer in it and from here I come
here America and I see the racethat is what it was like to watch

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the b proks run in that yearand people expect that they were more popular
than the elites. And there itis, as I say I did say
I was never going to be probut if I become prollo or here in
America, because the category is verypopular and because I enter, more people
enter and now you see. Ireally think that in this World Cup,
unfortunately they were cancelled in all threehands, but this World Cup, the

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level of category that was on Masterswas incredible. Everyone who came back and
I think all the people were leftwanting to see who was coming to the
final and in that final, whowas going to win. Actually, if
we were all going to fall intothe first cure, what was going to
happen until I was left with morethan 8th in the world and I say
wow was that to be octaed theworld, at least falling into the first
clearing and seeing where it was.Not then. That' s the part

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where I, when I decided togo to America and I said if I
do it, I do it hereand I fell in love with the sport
a lot more. And that Ican do to UI of BMX, because
the way they still make us feltprofessional and especially people enjoy much more of
our career by how we give ourselves. I know a time, elbows the
falls, everything there are, becausethey are ex exponents of the category pro
that was very good and we stillwalk very well. I mean, I

(18:56):
' m not saying that we canstill do things very well, but that
' s the part of what's sporty and good, talking about still
being involved in the industry, havinghad the opportunity to get into a company
and keep working and generate a littlemore learning from something. Maybe again let
' s say it like that,because it was my first job. Let
' s say what I' msaying here now. So I' m

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not gonna tell you that I wasnervous the first day that this office thing
and I said good I' mgonna work for the first time in my
life. I already had them,no, but in my entire life I
dedicated myself to Luis y gross Butthat' s a very good job,
totally. But if it' sa job, a full- time job,
it' s more full- time, more difficult than another. Why,
because I tell everyone you' rethinking how many hours, you sleep,
what you' re eating, howmuch you hydrate, if you'

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re getting tired, if you gaveit, it' s full time.
It' s seven days a week. It' s not like an office
of eight or five after five o' clock in the afternoon. You can
and he can throw you on acouch if he wants to. It'
s not all the time, butsometimes you have the doubt that if there
was, because of course I knowso and I' ve gone very well,
I went very well learned a lot. I am in a position that
I like and above all, whatI say is that I am still very

(20:03):
blessed, thankful is that I amstill involved in the industry of what I
think I know not when I saysomething that, for example, someone can
see good enemy. What he's still doing is still in this.
Well, obviously he runs people andhe' s also in this, in
the company, in this position,in what' s BMX. At some
point I think I have to takesome of that off, because time is
super short for me. Having threekids is crazy. Sometimes I don'

(20:29):
t have the time is minimal forme. Then I' ve been full
since sometimes the boys are here.I have to go train with them.
Then I' ll move you tothe office. After we' re done
with this. I' m goingto go to the track and BC and
Cross, so I' ll beback late. Right now, my family
isn' t here, but ifI get there, take nine and something
tonight and I have to get todo something, then I think at some
point, but if you would tellme to take it off, I think
at some point. My career,for Uncle has to end, not because

(20:52):
the abed pro la Marster has tobe competitive and you have to train.
It' s not a category thatyou say is not going to train for
two weeks and I' m goingto remember is all the coaches clear,
maybe that would be one of thefirst things that would eliminate it. But
being a coach is something that I, if I wanted to stay still ok
two questions. Emilio, well,you say, suddenly I wouldn' t

(21:14):
run anymore. Then bet pro wouldbe the first thing I' d remove.
But what if that category begins toget one that ends and begins to
get what I know a Doud,start to arrive some characters that suddenly you
are. Well, or the mosquitothat ran it. Well, and all

(21:36):
this, all those runners who wereglories in their country, just like you.
What happens suddenly you say no,I can' t get out of
there. I have to keep fighting, keep running good. I' ll
tell you what I thought this was. I wanted it to be my last
world, like last year, thatthird and last year I went and had
prepared to go win it. Yeah, I felt great, I was leading

(21:56):
almost every turn. If I hadwon it, I don' t know,
but at least I feel like inthe final there was so much in
the first three places of the firstprovity and I say or go out first
again I fell. But now,obviously, what you tell me does fit
me and everyone tells me you haveto go next year. You have to
finish the garrantis that in the finaland I have started to think that I

(22:18):
have seen to that what I haveabout the BIS and I have started to
think that he knows that. Hewould be much more cool because, for
example, this World Cup, allthe people who climbed up I remember.
My first sleeve I was seeing hadnot made an exit with Killin I was
in a good time was there.A few more there fell Kimilani, who
ran on it and he won thecruise. We were in a super hard
sleeve at times. I made itthrough. Then he said good. I
' m fine, the follower wascoming back to the front too, and

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the last one, which was Barry, was warming up and also coming out.
Then I felt like I was readyand I felt. I feel what
I think if I do the WorldCup next year would be the last,
the last on the subject of whatis the bet pro or the master'
s degree. Let' s sayby the subject that I think what I

(23:04):
was saying is, I' mtouching you with my OPAs transition in this
race to this category. I saidI' m not going to train anymore
and I got to the first racealmost continues to train and I wasn'
t, I mean, I wasthird but I wasn' t trained.
Yes, of course, then Isay I train enough to beat the winner,
Ahorita, and it has touched me, that is, and I see
every time that the theory here ofsweat, Ahorita, is not getting easier
than thirty or thirty- one.It gets harder and harder. So it

(23:29):
' s cool, obviously, butyou have a pretty good idea if you
could give yourself a little more timein your life. This is something that
maybe would be the first thing you' ve been doing that you had to
get out of your routine to havetime to maybe train them to go to
work and have time with my family. I lost with everything, but it
' s something I' m goingto bring a lot, that is you

(23:51):
tell my mingo, I' mgoing to spit, I' m going
to miss. I hope that ifI go to the World Cup next year,
or when I end this year thatI have a few meters established that
I know that, like everything,it is difficult to have spent the third
in the United States capato, mygoal is to earn me a rap and
give some damage that children had had. I' d like to have in
my house ok and after that,next year, see how it all goes.

(24:15):
But maybe he' ll point alot at the World Cup and end
up running around the United States andthen maybe close the sports leg. I
think I do, yes, thatwould be ok wow, a lot of
learning, boys learn, learn fromVMEX, which is a profession, it

(24:36):
' s a life style. Well, what' s up? Yes,
tomorrow they pick up the phone andcall Emilio from Ecuador or from some Latin
American country and tell him we arelooking for a coach, a coach.
What feelings there are, Emilio,what would happen. How you see it,

(24:57):
because you say you' re passionateabout teaching them now. What would
happen? And well, when wetalk and he calls me, if he
calls me cortixe, he has tobe with the right managers. I don
' t think I mean let mework on what the kids need and,
above all, change their whole wayof work. One hundred and always say

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that the selection needs a leader.I was talking to you. I think
Colombia is successful, because I havea leader a lot of time ago.
The kids have to have someone theybelieve in, who they respect, who
they believe in, in all theirknowledge, so they would, they would.
I don' t think they hadany problems with the IRA. I
don' t think I' llgive myself to Ecuador again. I think

(25:41):
my family, my children, Ilike the theme of being here in the
United States, but it would accompanyus at the events and have to go
down for certain selectives or for someconcentrates. I wouldn' t have any
problem and any selection would also bethe same, because I' m passionate
and I think that everything we've done in that of all the great

(26:03):
legends that if you get to seewhen right now I was in the World
Cup or in the world antero ander was recording with iPad. It'
s a lot of people that happenedall my life. What they' re
leading every selection is ex- runnersof my cam. And everything that'
s on top of that, they' re runners because it gives ged Group,
Baby Graph or more to read thebranded clous that, even though it
hasn' t been so well known, was selected elite. The rs of

(26:26):
Holland. They' re all inHolland there. There' s Jaspers,
there' s the one who wasWinnerberg' s first band, which was
the first Olympics. There' sTuan with the Uzi Lean Phillips. Well,
there' s Mat Cameron, whichis from New Zealand. He'
s raised a lot of new Zealand. Yeah, yeah, yeah, new
do chitan new zelantes have the girlqualified right now. The women' s

(26:48):
cleaners have the rich Bieiman and theyhave the one that still doesn' t
define whether it' s rich orgoing to go makbias, but they'
ve defined it. But I thinkit' s hill humi tending between the
two So yes, it' slike seeing people that I competed with and
not me, as I say tothem, I don' t know if
it' s all, because whatyou' re going to give them a

(27:08):
sports part in training, but it' s more than everyone in those moments
of how to guide them in whatthey, who else is going to feel
what you feel like doing in thatsuper cross party, the uncertainty, the
preparation, the way of thinking,the way of leading a triumph, a
defeat. I always tell them.They will learn much more from defeats than
triumphs. This will always signal muchmore life, logistics. He also manages

(27:29):
the language. Also understand that iftomorrow open the climate that I sometimes tell
you, you have to open clinand they were going if it' s
going to rain, if it's going to rain, go buy things
for the rain, to dry thetires, because there are times that tell
me that they didn' t bringanything in a glass of the world and
arrive I didn' t see andthey were like this. I mean,
they have all that preparation like anathlete thinks and says he doesn' t
hear what it' s like tobe something to be, to be ready.

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So I think that' s somethingthat' s why the other legion
are doing great and I think Iwould. I would do it as I
told you, but it has tobe under the right concepts, with the
right directive that, as I letyou work so that we don' t
only have one selected, not beingenough. The thing is, at first
it' s a team. That' s for more than the individual BMX,

(28:14):
but it qualified as a team atthe end of the day emilio.
As it is the experience of someOlympics, as it was participating in the
Olympics, Well, the first Olympics, I was a dream actually made like
or chass, but I was tellingyou that I was twenty- one years

(28:34):
old and everything I think mentally orif collegiately, I wasn' t prepared
for I mean. I was impressedby the fact of the food courtyard,
the size of the Olympic village,the first time I had touched the track,
which crossed as how many people werewatching me run hordía, I mean,
very mature, very mature, psychologicallyI shouted it, I enjoyed it,
but I also knew that when Iwent to that first Olympic Games,

(28:55):
even though I ran very well,that I was going to be in the
next one for something in my lifeI said, that is, it doesn
' t matter, it' sfour years in the most and for top
for London, I classified much moremature. Psychologically I was going to go
I was going to work and Ialready knew what I was going to introduce
myself to. He knew how theprogram had or contained an Ion NBD.
He can' t sleep much ofhow nervous he was that day for the

(29:17):
first time in my life. Ithink I almost didn' t get breakfast
because I had so much. Imean, I' ve never gotten over
that, but it' s likeI' ve been in your instance,
like I got big on this topicMaybe I didn' t work with a
psychologist at the time when I'm busy or not. He couldn'
t guide me then, but hetaught me a lot of learning to know
what I was going to introduce myselfto after four years. Then, the
next time I was very quiet,I knew how it worked, everything slept

(29:41):
well with my good and everything wasstanding, but unfortunately I hurt myself in
the second hit that in the firsthit third, in the second or in
the second recess he got in,he stopped his shoulder and I was blamed
and I broke leaguely crossed and practicallythere ended everything. And that was the
time, that was a moment withmore than one wait four years. I
tell him everyone you' ll giveit to yourself an incredible classification since they

(30:02):
summon you and it' s likeyou' re watching, ha that you
' re in friends or that you' re training like you don' t
care how much you train, youtrain like a demon, that is,
you don' t care, thatis, you do everything the day of
the race comes and the day ofthe wagon. I' m not going
to shut you up if you haveto die that day, because you'
ve been preparing for so long.As a matter of fact, there are
so many streets, because no onegives an inch because it' s that
day. There' s no tomorrow, that' s what I always thought,

(30:25):
that is, there' s notomorrow, there' s tomorrow,
there' s no tomorrow, that' s what I expected then when it
' s over and you don't go as you want, because you
have to be honest to those whoare the medalists are the ones who are
the ones who are the ones whoare the more than being the sixth seventh
taban in the cleaned up. Ifyou' re a finalist, but it
' s not the same thing thathe psychologged the medal and went and stayed

(30:45):
before it' s even more difficultand I think that after the first of
nondes, in the darkest moments ofmy uncle' s career, because literally
at that time I didn' teven know if I wanted to keep doing
bikes, apart from being injured,I said four more years. Sorting is
quite stress on the whole, thesituation, your pointwood, two events,
etcetera. That one, if itwent well, others didn' t work
out for you how they' removing out of all positions. So I

(31:08):
think it' s just as muchas it is at that moment you see
it at that moment as a personand it says ah already well, I
came and participated and it didn't go as I wanted and you go
with a feeling of sadness to beable to judge as I see that stage,
I say you have to be realistic. One percent of the people who
talk about this puerte are going tobe Olympic and the rest of the ninety

(31:29):
- nine percent are never going torun into a cleanup or have been able
to perform two Olympics. Let's say three as alternate. Not much
they can say that, but asI was telling you as a little boy,
he was super hard on me.No. But now, as I
see it, because that was mewith me and I would have wanted to
be able to tell that child notto be so hard on him. And
that' s what I' mtrying to help them now is to tell
them look, don' t getthat way, there' s gonna be
another race. I' ll catchup with this thing that' s gonna

(31:52):
be another year, there' sgonna be another weekend. You can'
t, like, explain to memy dad, don' t run out
before now,' cause it wasover and it wasn' t over,
I mean, literally for the race. And if I didn' t do
well, I was very, very, very helpless or anything, but I
was very peossimistic about myself. Ithink that' s the part where I
come in and sometimes I try totalk to them. It' s hard

(32:13):
to find the right words to takeaway someone. But if something that well
and tells you someone has lived bador difficult moments or strong, because where
it will hear easier it is differentthat it comes to someone who has never
experienced it. So that' simportant. Emilio, how to get out
of a moment of darkness, howdo you know of a moment of darkness

(32:37):
in the sport, of an injury, of a race where you had many
expectations and did not pass what youwanted to pass, because there are so
many variables that are at stake.How can you get out of the dark?
When not a child, a bigone, an oll school, a
novi is an expert, an elite, darkness is the same for everyone.

(32:57):
Like how, how you can getout of that. It is what your
management is from the heart and basedon your professional career, because you are
a professional of bmax in all thesense of the word to do. I
believe that what I always did firstCouncil never take a decision at that time

(33:20):
of carature or image, not thatit is how better advice. It gives
me my dad tells me anything yousaid tell me in two weeks, when
you' re calmer, when you' re calmer, because it' s
hard to finish the race until yougot on that plane you leave, on
the plane still thinking about what wouldhave happened, otherwise I did this,
what had happened until I got there. That you go with that the good
thing sometimes that I say to everyonedon' t stay, because a lot

(33:43):
of people pick up and say I' m going to give the TIMOF and
the timemoba Sometimes it' s goodfor some people, but the time OF
also takes away a lot of theirgoals. I say, like, give
them a week' s time,two weeks. And if there' s
a race that' s important,then run again, because that' s
what' s cool about this sport, that the time you come and you
know that to see another race formore than you' re still a little

(34:05):
sad about what happened. He's gonna do you that week, prescribe
you and start over and say good. I have to focus on this thing
some things that I think helped mewhen we had talked about the world chapter,
which now I had almost all theguys I had went wrong and it
was difficult for them. I gotone that doesn' t want to hit
bicy for two months. No,and that' s where another one came

(34:27):
from, like Christian, who's here and everything, no matter how
hard it is. Everything came andsaid I have to have it. They
' re young, they' reyoung. They have and then when I
catch them I tell them to lookat me I can tell you how many
times they don' t teach methings and my mom and I think I
' m wrong. No, I' m not bad. Life goes on.
I have a beautiful family. Iwas involved in the sport, I
enjoyed it, I enjoyed it andin that time you think and say already
that I don' t mean ifyou see sometimes you think that all the

(34:51):
great ones that you see and sayah if they won union of see,
because you never know when you seethe story of Converfield, that I was
talking about that when I was po, because you fute taste of peddle,
lost, lost out and freshen uptheir statues as big and it starts to
be good to be who the personwas another doctor and seems like the best
example that now taught Nikiman, whowas someone who was Olympic champion. And

(35:13):
I think Ahorita just posted when shesent in Tulsa, which took two years
to win an event again, someonewho always won. Imagine for someone who
won always can' t There aretimes that didn' t even go into
the finals. Already then I believethat yesterday I heard a speech that justly
retorted faith that the true champion ofwho knows comic and who is for the

(35:35):
long road, not only for theshort road, but to move forward and
keep fighting. Its net is levadada i e. I say that life
is not made for navida us togo out to all the world and no
one will give you this silver mandejasilver or it will touch to work,
but that you will be given.I don' t know if ten times
as many or fifteen, but thattime you' re going to give,
you' re going to eliminate allthe bad guys less than I left completely
safe. This thing Emilio just shared. It' s a little bit if

(36:01):
we bring him to virtue. It' s a little resilience, it'
s sincerity, it' s honesty, that respect, that love, that
stoicism. If you want to knowwhat it' s about, stoic look
for it so you can understand whatit' s about. That' s
what I just said and that's what Emilio just said and what he

(36:22):
just said here. We' retalking about BMX, of course, in
the podcast, but we' retalking about building, helping new generations.
From the perspective of a professional likeEmilio, from the perspective of what I
do enjoying riding my bikeng daring tomake a podcast content that is already five
years old, creating networking because theBMX told me in the North Carolina World

(36:46):
Cup, where I stayed in eighthsof the end, but I felt I
had never been scored at the endof the World Cup. For me it
was as if I had won oneamong the staff. I' ve never
won a manga in a World Cupbefore. I won a manga in a
World Cup, so for me it' s as if he' s earned
twice as much. You probably haveto work and keep working, but I

(37:09):
' m doing it for fun.Emilio. Okay. Let' s talk
about the Olympics. Let' stalk about the Olympics. What runners you
like with that smell you have.What runners you see, What runners Personally
you' d like to see inthe finals how you think those semifinals are

(37:34):
going to be. We were justtalking about it in the car today We
saw it talking because it' sstill missing. I think there' s
a lack of America that defines who' s going. I think so.
I' m sure you' reabout to define the others. Everyone there,
I think in Germany, for definingmy men and women. If you
didn' t turn me to talkabout women, I' m a big
fan of Mariano. As I alwaystell her she' s the one that

(37:57):
' s going to be very difficultto find someone like her in the BMX,
in everything she' s done,in everything she represents, in so
many titles she' s got,it' s unquestionably the best that exists
for a long time. I'd love to see her get a medal.
Or I' d love to.I know it' s hard,

(38:19):
but I think I always said myselfin sport, in sport, this is
what the sport does, because whenyou see the sport is unpredictable, sometimes
not then I would love to seeher taking a medal. I know there
' s a lot of them now. One of the things I most appreciate
and watch women' s careers,because when the BMX started, let'
s say super Cross, there wasa level where there were very few who
did. And now it' samazing. There' s sleeves with your

(38:43):
beads. You say how hard itis or sleeves already before them you say
there' s only one or two. Yes, now it' s one
thing and how they progress by skippingthe section, pro doing them a lot
of things that I didn' tdo before. Then I' d think
I' d like Mariana obviously todo well, or I know her pretty
well. He' s walking verywell, very well, very well.
They' ve seen we' vegot how many hits they' re giving

(39:06):
very, very, very well.She' s young too so they have
it a lot of level in women, but I think they two. I
' d love to be able tosee two of them in the finals.
I know Bettan was sure to bein the finals? I know that Saya
' s gonna be in the finals? Alice I think it' s gonna
be in the finals? Soulthers someto see Sometimes I don' t know

(39:30):
which one' s better between thetwo, but I look great to the
other girl he classified. It's been very constant, ok it'
s been very constant and it's called how else, not incredible,
very constant it comes right in withmac Cameron, New Zealand coach. Switzerland
is so classy. He' sgonna do great with that lead. It

(39:52):
' s also a clue, thatis, it' s a clue to
someone who for a woman who knowshow to handle the BICI very well has
to jump trips, they have tojump double manual. It is a clue
of the most complex that I haveseen for women or what I saw in
the testivent I saw that in thattestive in Betan and Ga not so I
would tell you, that means thatI saw Gaby very well the testivent looked

(40:14):
very good that the tire was lowered, but it came as third or fourth
mariana. I think that also becauseof the subject of the Marianna is very
natural with the handling of bicycles.Then I think that' s why it
' s also going to if it' s on its way out. And
it' s the subject she wasat the Olympics. The Olympics have a
lot of nerves and many new womenarriving for the first time and she has

(40:36):
that coldness of knowing. There isno one who can earn more medals than
she already knows what it is todo in women in men. I believe
faithfully that on paper the fastest ismagic. In the World Cup he showed
it I think a visa came frombefore Joris and Joris, when he got
it not expected that more hui staysoutside. But if you tell me who
looks physically faster and they' rerunning on their track, because Mahiu,
I think it' s going tobe someone who' s going to go

(41:00):
with a very clear goal and goal. Last year of the C' s
four years ago came to the endas well, but did not win a
medal. But the team, thethree French, I think if they'
re not there, even if they' re in the same semifinal, I
think they' re going in.I don' t see him for anything,
like a blow, a bring-in of something of this would have
to do with them not coming inif they see neither imagiu, nor yores

(41:21):
in an ending, as they didfour years ago in another pisco. I
think that' s what they're always gonna do. I' m
always gonna put Carlos on. Carlosare for me besides great friend. I
think he' s someone who,as much as the day gets up with
a fever with what he' salready going to fight everything and he'
s going to look for a wayto do it and the cold head he
' s got. I think thatwe were great for a day under a
great team. Diego is very complete. Diego has a first straight and everything,

(41:45):
but lately I know he was hit. But sometimes it' s like
if he' s that day he' s in, it' s amazing
he comes out and he can beateveryone the best, the fastest. But
I think Carlitos has these last fourgood cars since the Pulsa World Cups that
made the final the two days andat the end Capatu World, because it
gives you what you are facing.I think Alfredo looks good too. I

(42:07):
' d think Alfredo would go intothe finals. That' s where three
hundred s can six, and that' s where an American has to put
it. I know buo' sgot his bood going with an injury to
what he' s got. Hehas to go back to operating, but
if nothing happens and you all knowhe' s got a level, he
' s got a good head,he' s got everything going seven kin

(42:31):
Shiman Kiman Kiman is for me oneof the people who can win the medal
too. It' s a shortlead. So something that I got along
very well with him and when hewas here in California, he was trying
to look for quick partyers because hehas the problem of reaction after him.
So he' s got an extramarch that everyone seems to me if it
was the Visicros as old school,which just pedaled before him. He'
ll win them over, but witha lot he' s got an incredible

(42:52):
leg speed, so, but theeight' s gonna be tough on him.
So he knows that back in France, if he wants to do anything,
he has to be in the lanesinside. That' s why you
were gan from the lane into life. So he thinks he' s got
that in his mind of power andwinning from the race inside. I don
' t know if I see himoutside, but I think he' s
in a great moment. That's what I know I don' t

(43:15):
know if I' ve thrown alleight of them, but I think they
' re somebody I think they're the ones that fit me most in
the head, that come with agood time and what they want. What
was that clue my Kiman was askingabout? What was that track in California,
where there was a matcher for him, for him, so fast,

(43:35):
yes, yes, the fastest onein Sandiez, yes, the worst part,
the rarest, very, very fast. And now I have videos until
they found or had a taste andtaste until the white line. My half
- bishop comes up with something andafter that it happens to him, it
happens to him in two pieces,it happens to him with half a visio.
It' s amazing what you read. But if you start reading the
World Cup, the Nikymon Barkore WorldCup the fastest reaction down to the bottom,

(43:57):
that is, he almost never wona World Cup two nascos, he
doesn' t come out as thefastest reaction right now in Rockill. It
came out as the fastest reaction ofthe eight. He had a Joris bike,
but he was talking to Maris.It' s true he has a
bike. But if I was infive, I' d have gone out
maybe a vis and a half andI wouldn' t have passed you tears.
So what Maris and he speak andsay in another era the eight,

(44:17):
maybe yes, but now, asthe whole child has tightened so much,
he has already to start choosing alittle bit more inside, as he did
in Tulsa. Although he was secondin the World Cup or worse, but
that to win, Maris said hewould have wanted the single donated. He
thinks it was closer, okay?I' ll cover you up. Maybe
not secret yet that he' sready, but if he gets to see
the World Cup, he comes outwith the fastest reaction of that ending.

(44:42):
Okay, wow. Well, wecould be talking here for two hours and
also understanding people' s time.I want to thank Emilio Falla for this
time, for this simplicity for sharinghis words, his knowledge. We know
that Emilió, who has multiple occupationsand is also a person who has many

(45:04):
followers, many fans throughout Latin America. Something to close Emilio, a message
to parents, a message to parentswho support their children who sin children,
are champions or champions who support him, that this is the most important thing,
that they enjoy being happy. Thereare some children that if some parents

(45:24):
sometimes get frustrated that they say thatthere are some children who are born others
that are not made that is,this sport together from all over the world
is a lot for persistence. Andthe other day I just had a super
important diner with a school that putsthe sport on why to do a sport
in any child. And it's because competing, training, correcting,

(45:46):
a lot of things prepares you forin real life, in real life,
how to assume a first time thatI know a person' s loss,
once unemployment, divorce, whatever itis before medium because I talk and tell
you why sport is so important tothis school. And they told me why
competing, assimilating that defeat or thattriumph, will teach children to learn,

(46:07):
to understand life. What a schoolit is. It' s a private
school here that very cristos kids whoput as a main sport to the fights
and make them children who fight andsay because there is in the fight you
can win by geniuses, they're smart. Children who are more physically
gifted or constancy and why they makethem chopo extemos that sometimes defeat, sometimes
the child designs them how to carryit later in real life, the difficult

(46:30):
moments that give you life. Sothe importance of sport, because to me
it seems a sport of course,so I feel it is healthy, because
it has helped me in everything thatI do. Be persistent, be constant
to fight for my goals. You' ve got a lot of stuff for
him. But when he told methat to be able, so that they

(46:51):
know that the world does not endthere, that is, when a moment
comes, and that life is noteasy, that is, life at the
end of the day. It isthe life of beauty, of being here
alive and having and all that wesaw every day. Yes, but you
also have to know that there aregoing to be difficult times. It has
touched us all and how to carrythose moments. So they' ve been
little kids since then with the mainstuff. So support them, because it
is necessary for children to have theseexperiences and this experience in any sport.

(47:15):
Emilio fails a glory of bm thatmade a glory of Latin American and Ecuadorian
sport. Thank you for taking partin this episode. Thanks for your time.
Don' t forget to share onall your social networks, this podcast,
the Alejo Vargas Show BMX Podcast,available on all digital platforms. Thank
you, thank you all and Isend you a hug. Thank you.