MADRID, 07 (SERVIMEDIA)
The Royal Spanish Hockey Federation (RFEH) will promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in this sport thanks to a collaboration agreement signed with the Sanitas Foundation.
With this, the RFEH becomes part of the Strategic Alliance for Inclusive Sports, which has been working since 2010 to promote inclusive sports and adapt the regulations of sports disciplines to guarantee that people with disabilities have access to the practice. sport and can improve their health and quality of life thanks to sport, as reported this Thursday by both entities.
Hockey is the 18th federation to join this group, which has the Higher Sports Council (CSD), the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), the Real Madrid Foundation, the ONCE Foundation , RTVE, Telemadrid, the Community of Madrid, the Madrid City Council and the Polytechnic University of Madrid as promoting partners.
The agreement makes hockey one of the 14 sports that will be represented during the II Inclusive Games, which will take place next October in Madrid, once the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games have concluded.
“The first edition of the Inclusive Games marked a before and after in the way we understand sport. For the first time, Spanish Olympic and Paralympic athletes competed under inclusive regulations for all and showed us that this must be the way forward,” said Yolanda Erburu, general director of the Sanitas Foundation.
Erburu added: “The next edition, which is held after the Paris competitions, will be the perfect occasion to establish this concept. For this reason it is so important for us that disciplines like hockey join the Alliance because it shows that the athletes themselves are the ones who opt for this format.”
NEW INCLUSIVE SPORTS
The I Inclusive Games, held in 2021 as the culmination of the Olympic and Paralympic cycle, featured more than 170 athletes who competed under inclusive regulations in nine disciplines (athletics, badminton, wheelchair basketball, judo, swimming, rugby, taekwondo, tennis table and triathlon). This year handball, karate, fencing, hockey and archery will be added.
“We are very proud to join the Sanitas Foundation to continue working on inclusion in sport. In hockey we already have several initiatives along these lines, but we believe that this alliance will be key to being able to definitively promote inclusion in hockey. We are very happy to be able to participate in the Inclusive Games with so many other sports,” stressed Santiago Deó, president of the RFEH.
2024-03-07 13:14:06
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