He CAR of Sant Cugat The act of presentation of the Catalan athletes who will participate in the Paralympic Paris Games 2024. In qualifying processes that are still underway, there are already forty -four and four prescribed athletes for a French event for which ninety -nine days are missing. He August 28 The exit point will be given to the great sports center and a representation of the Catalan delegation that will be in it, in order to September 8he has transmitted his sensations.
It has been in an act organized by the CAR and by the Spanish Paralympic Committee, conducted by José Luis Liarte and with the presence of the secretary general of the CPE Miguel Appleof Ramon Terrassa as director of the Car de Sant Cugat and a good payroll of athletes classified for Paris Games. In all of them the swimmer have spoken Sarai Gascón and the cyclist Sergio Garrotewho aspire to be two of the spearheads of a Spanish team that wishes to maintain their extraordinary role of the last editions. Catalan institutions have not been present at the eventa fact with which Paralympic sport has been very critical.
It will be the seventeenth of the Paralympic Games that is held in Paris. It will congregate about 4,400 blind athletes, with physical disability, with intellectual disability and with cerebral palsy with the aim of fighting for the long -awaited medals. There will be 549 tests that will distribute it, in the same twenty -two sports as in Tokyo and with An already insured representation of 182 countries which aspires to grow in the coming weeks. As for the Olympic Games, most of the Paralympic headquarters will concentrate in the center of Paris, with seventeen facilities and with a starting point in an inauguration ceremony that will take place with a parade in the Elysees fields and with a high point in the Plaza de la Concordia.
The Spanish team aspires to carry a team of about 230 people, with about 140 athletes of the different federations and support athletes and with some 90 people from the respective teams of those athletes. There are already classified 89 of thirteen different federations (Four of the different Paralympic Federations and nine Olympic Federations such as Bádminton, Cycling, canoeing, rowing, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, Olympic shot and triathlon). The forecast is that 65% of the team be masculine, although for now it works with a global pre -selection of 250 athletes, 44 of which are Catalans.
The Car de Sant Cugat has dressed in gala for the presentation of Catalan Paralympic athletes
For now, the distribution of Spanish athletes is 31 in swimming, 24 in wheelchair basketball, 10 in athletics, 10 in table tennis, 6 in canoeing, 2 in Boccia, 2 in taekwondo, 1 in cycling, 1 in rowing, 1 in shot and 1 in archery. They are numbers that are expected to be expanded in the coming months both in these modalities and in others that still do not add up to classified.
The support of adop and from the wide payroll of sponsors of the CPE allows the Spanish team to move in numbers similar to those of Tokyo 2021 in terms of classified forecast. Three years ago there were thirty -six medals obtained in the Games, a great challenge for an expedition that already has the days that remain until the big date.
A defined preselection
This Tuesday has appeared to those 44 Catalan athletes Pre -selected for Paris Games. That is, those who already have the square or who continue to fight it with high options to obtain it.
The 44 preselected Catalan sport for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
-16 in swimming: Sarai Gascón, Miguel Luque, Nuria Marqués, Toni Ponce, José Antonio Marí, Óscar Salguero, David Levecq, Ariel Enrique Schrenk, Emma Feliú, Daniel Ferrer, Marian Polo, Jacobo Garrido, Mahamadou Dambelleh, Ian Florencio, àlex Villarejo and Berta García
-11 Athletes of the Car Group: Gerard Desvargera (he recovers from an injury with the great challenge of reaching Paris), Yassine Ouhdadi, Elena Congost, Mari Carmen Paredes, Martín Parejo, Jordi Madera, Iván Hernández, Melani Bergés, Lorenzo Sánchez, Sydney Fokou and Raúl Gracia
-4 Basketball wheelchair (Both classified Spanish teams): Óscar Onrubia, Jordi Ruiz, Biel Carbó and María Heras
-3 cycling: Sergio Garrote, Martín Berchesi and Christian Venge
-3 table tennis: Jordi Morales, Álvaro Valera and Alejandro Díaz
-2 taekwondo: Joel Martín and Dalia Santiago
-2 tennis: Martín de la Puente y Francesc Tur
-2 Boccia: Vasile agache y ramón prat
-1 remo: Josefa Benítez
Sarai Gascón and Sergio Garrote, sponsors with claim
They have analyzed the way to the Paris Games Dos of the Spanish team bastions, the swimmer Sarai Gascón and the cyclist Sergio Garrote. Gascón He faces his fifth Paralympic Games, with six silver and two bronzes behind him and after shining a few weeks ago in the European of Madeira. “The preparation for the games began just after Tokyo's and has been a shorter and more intense path. They give peace of mind to have the minimum and good results of the European Championship, but we want to improve“The Egarense said.” In 100 free I made the gold but I was not happy with the brand, so we will try to improve in the world bell series within a few days, “he said.
A broad representation of the athletes of the Car de Sant Cugat who will be in Paris has come to the act
Both Gascón and Garrote have talked about the need for equality between Olympic and Paralympic athletes. “For the first time the awards at the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be the same”has celebrated Sarai. Although equality remains without being real. “I would like representatives of Catalan sport to have been in such an important act for us”he has launched Garr in the absence of members of the institutions in the CAR.
The cyclist faces the final stretch of his preparation for Paris, an appointment to which he arrives with a gold in the 2021 games, two world golds and a gold in the World Cup of this year. “I no longer have competitions. I aspire to the maximum. Each one has a plan and who takes it better will be the one who wins,” he said Club. “Two weeks ago I saw the Paris circuit. It is very demanding and I like it And participating in the Games will mean the end of the work we do every day, ”he added.
Has influenced claims Miguel Applegeneral secretary of the Spanish Paralympic Committee. “My priority and that of the Spanish Paralympic Committee are athletes, because for you it is worth fighting. More and more Spaniards who realize that your capacity exceeds 'DIS' “he pointed out with another claim. “Let's see if the 'disability' that has been corrected in the Constitution is also changed in the autonomic statutes,” added before thanking the work of the Adop Plan.
The Paris Games are called to mark the transition between a veteran Spain with many prominent struts that will stage there to the young athletes who have achieved the pass and who will collect the witness. Many of them will be Catalans, athletes who continue to dream ninety -nine days after the big date with the total conviction that it will be magical.
