Huelva Athletes Ready to Shine at Paris 2024 Olympic Games

There is less than a month left until the Paris 2024 Olympic Games begin, which will be held in the capital of France between July 26 and August 11. All the eyes of world sport will be focused there and the representation of Huelva will be carried out by four representatives from the capital and the province. The most awarded of them is logically Carolina Marín, but there will also be Fermín López, Álvaro Robles and Laura García-Caro.

Carolina Marín will return to the Olympic Games eight years later. The badminton champion in Rio 2016, who could not defend her title in Tokyo 2020 Due to a serious knee injury, she goes to Paris as number three in the Olympic ranking, only behind the Korean An Se-Young, current world champion, and the Chinese Chen Yu Fei, current Olympic champion.

The Huelva native, who has also won the World and European Championships several times throughout her career, has recently been named the Princess of Asturias Sports Award winner, an award she will receive in October and which she hopes to take home with another Olympic medal, as she is physically and mentally 100% confident after having won several tournaments in recent months.

The one who will debut in the Olympic Games will be Barcelona player Fermín López, born 21 years ago in the Huelva town of El Campillo and who is currently playing in the European Football Championship with the Spanish National Team in Germany. He seeks to put a finishing touch to a spectacular season in which he went from playing in the Primera RFEF on loan to Linares to making his debut in the Barça first team, where he has established himself and has scored goals in all competitions. He also had his contract extended and he debuted with Spain Under 21, even playing a match at Nuevo Colombino.

Álvaro Robles, Fermín López and Laura García-Caro hope to complete a good role in the Olympic Games this summer RFETM / ALBERTO DÍAZ / RFEA

Fermín López will make his debut in Paris on 24 July against Uzbekistan at the Parc des Princes. He will then travel to Bordeaux, where he will play his next two group matches: on 27 July against the Dominican Republic and on 30 July against Egypt. All three matches will be played at 3:00 p.m.

In table tennis, Álvaro Robles from Huelva will repeat his Olympic presence being the best European in the Olympic ranking as of June 11, the date on which the cutoff for the individual events was closed. He was already in Tokyo 2020 and in Paris he will face two modalities, since he will not only compete in singles but also in mixed doubles with his usual partner, María Xiao.

Among Robles’ most significant achievements this year were two major finals: one at the WTT Feeder Series in Havirov and another at the WTT Contender in Mendoza. In addition, his participation in the European Top 16 underlined his high preparation in this Olympic year. And in mixed doubles, he and Xiao will arrive in Paris as the best European pair in the world rankings.

Mixed relay

Finally, also in athletics, specifically in the walking modality, another Huelva native, Laura García-Caro, will face two competitions, the mixed relay with the distance of a marathon, that is, 42.1195 meters, and the his usual 20 individual kilometers. She was also in Tokyo, so she will repeat her Olympic presence.

She will arrive at the women’s singles event with a chance of doing something great after only a couple of weeks ago she missed out on bronze at the European Championships in Rome at the very finish line. In addition, A couple of months ago he won the International Grand Prix of Cantones de A Coruña the second best Spanish mark in history in the 20 kilometre walk, with 1:27.17, only behind María Pérez and ahead of a legend like the Olympic bronze medallist María Vasco.

And in the mixed relay event, also this year in Anatalya, Turkey, he won the bronze medal at the World Team Championship partnering with two-time world champion Álvaro Martín. They covered the 42 kilometers and 195 meters of the test in a time of 2:57.47. At the Criterium in Valencia they had taken gold, so they form an exciting tandem that hopes to bring joy to Spanish athletics at the Paris Games.

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2024-06-30 07:55:53
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