Paula Ramírez (Sant Cugat del Vallès, 1996) has just retired after almost 15 years in the pool. With six World Championship medals and an Olympic bronze, she is one of the benchmarks of European artistic swimming. A few weeks after winning a silver at the European Championships in Paris, she welcomes ARA at the CAR in Sant Cugat. She does so on the day the young people who will train here in the triathlon discipline arrive, accompanied by their parents, who want to see the facilities and meet the coaches. "I organized it," she explains. After years of training at the CAR, she will now work there in the institutional department. Same setting, new life.

The artistic swimming team's training session at the CAR in Sant Cugat has ended and Iris Tió, world champion, He stays in the pool a little longer, doing his exercise to the rhythm of theHymn to love sung by Céline Dion. Her teammates, already heading to the showers, know the song by heart and sing it amidst jokes. After hours in the pool giving it their all, a great atmosphere reigns in the group, and it's contagious. Working with Andrea Fuentes (Valls, 1983) as head coach is like that. With four Olympic medals as a swimmer, Fuentes has lived a thousand lives, always ready to listen and learn. To know how she wants to live and how she wants to train, creating positive work environments. Now she's thinking about the 2028 Games while coaching the Spanish team after her American adventure, where she won a silver medal. An adventure that left its mark on her.