Osmar Olvera, Mexican double medalist in Paris 2024, was successfully operated on

Mexican diver Osmar Olvera, Double Olympic medalist in Paris 2024, He underwent a “successful” rhinoplasty at the Central Military Hospital in Mexico City, the athlete’s press team reported.

According to the released document, Olvera needed to undergo surgery because his deviated septum prevented air from passing through his nose properly..

“It is an operation that we have been postponing for a long time due to its competences.. Since he was little he hit his nose several times and had a deviated septuma rhinitis that became more complicated over time and was uncomfortable. We took advantage of the break and are in time for the next Olympic cycle in Los Angeles 2028″, explained Mayanín Ibarra, the diver’s mother, in the letter.

The athlete from Mexico City has the rank of corporal in the Mexican Army, due to his sporting performance, and therefore has the right to free military medical service, like any other member of the Mexican Armed Forces.

In Paris 2024, the 20-year-old diver won medals in the events synchronized three-meter springboard jump, with his partner Juan Manuel Celaya, with which he won a silver medal, and a bronze in the individual three-meter springboard.

After winning the medals for Mexico, he said that at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics his goal will be to beat the Chinese, a team that has historically dominated the discipline.

Olvera became just the sixth Mexican to be a double medalist in the same Olympic Games.

In Paris 2024, Mexico surpassed the four bronze medals it won in Tokyo 2020, adding five, those of Olvera and silvers of Prisca Awiti, in judo, and of boxer Marco Verde; in addition to one bronze, obtained by the women’s archery team, made up of Alejandra Valencia, Ana Paula Vázquez and Ángela Ruiz.

*With information from EFE.

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