Portugal’s Nelson Évora launches warning to opponents

France’s Teddy Tamgho is the man of the moment in the triple jump after his heroics during the indoor season but Portugal’s 2008 Olympic Games champion Nelson Évora believes he’ll be back in the spotlight this summer.

Having won on the global stage in Osaka and Beijing, he is excited about the fact that this summer’s World Championships will be held in the Korean city of Daegu.

He admits that there is something about competing in eastern Asia that brings out the best in Évora, who turned 27 last Wednesday.

'The Eastern air makes me feel good. I love the heat there, the sun; and there, even without sun it is always hot. In such environments, my body responds much better than in the cold of many European meetings," reflected Évora in a recent interview with the Portuguese sports newspaper A Bola.

“This year everyone will have to compete with me. I'm preparing myself to do battle, I had an unsuccessful winter season, I was injured on my first jump at my only international meeting (at the XL-Galan meeting in Stockholm on 22 February) and could not show off the work that I had been doing.

“But outdoors, from June onwards, I think I will be a force to be reckoned with right the way up to the World Championships, where I hope to be as strong as possible,” he added.

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