With the presence of 3,539 athletes from 10 countries, the ALBA Games in Venezuela were inaugurated yesterday, which will be played again after 12 years. Bolivia is present with a delegation of 51 athletes.
Athletes from the nations that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) participate in these Games: Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and the host Venezuela. In this edition, Russia also participates as a guest.
Taekwondo athlete María Celeste Áñez and swimmer Esteban Núñez del Prado led the Bolivian delegation as flag bearers of the national team, made up of 51 athletes from 13 disciplines out of the 33 included in the general program.
Fourteen of the 33 sports of the Games, which will be until April 29, will begin to be played from today.
Bolivia will enter the arena today in race skating, taekwondo, judo, swimming, fencing and bodybuilding.
They were suspended twice
The Games were held in 2007 (Venezuela), 2009 (Cuba) and 2011 (Venezuela). But different adversities prevented Quito (Ecuador) and Cochabamba (Bolivia) from organizing them in 2013 and 2015.
2023-04-22 05:00:37
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