The Iris Tió phenomenon
At the Yeomju Gymnasium in the remote Gwangju of South Korea, next to the football stadium where Gamal al Ghandour’s most famous refereeing took place, the Iris Tió phenomenon emerged. It was July 2019 and the Barcelonan, barely 16 years old, attended as the youngest member of the team coached by Mayuko Fujiki, which had the undisputed star Ona Carbonell, who at those World Championships achieved the record for the most medals by a woman (22). Beside her, Tió, just a shy teenager with a wonderful future predicted. In the midst of that whirlwind that the mixed zone becomes, improvised next to the locker rooms in that inhospitable place, Andrea Fuentes appeared, who at that time was beginning her journey with the United States.