Madrid, Oct 17 (EFE).- More than three hundred Olympic and Paralympic athletes, some of them from Chile, Mexico, the United Kingdom or Poland, shined this Thursday at the second edition of the Inclusive Games held at the High Performance Center of Madrid.
The competition had five exceptional ambassadors such as the Romanian Nadia Comaneci, the first gymnast to obtain a perfect score at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games; Cuban Javier Sotomayor, holder of the world high jump record since 1993; swimmer Teresa Perales, winner of 28 medals in seven Paralympic Games; the Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, who has held the world record for the 1,500 meters since 1998, and the British Jonathan Edwards, world triple jump record holder with 18.29 meters since 1995.
“It is an honor to be here. Until now we had only been able to enjoy these Inclusive Games on one occasion and this time we have added international athletes. It is incredible. What we are doing here is history and we have to replicate it in the rest of the world,” he said. Pear trees.
Nadia Comaneci showed herself along those lines, assuring that “one day Sanitas will be seen in the history books for this. Thinking about athletes of Teresa’s level, who has been competing for decades, and thinking about meeting her in future Inclusive Games is incredible “I would be very worried if I had to compete with her in Los Angeles 2028.”
The II Inclusive Games, promoted by the Sanitas Foundation together with the Spanish Olympic Committee, the Spanish Paralympic Committee, the Higher Sports Council and the network of sports federations and sports for people with disabilities, had the Honorary Presidency of King Felipe VI .
In the first edition, held in 2021, they brought together 170 Spanish Olympic and Paralympic athletes. This year the number rises to almost 300 and, for the first time, there will be international athletes from Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, the United Kingdom or Poland.
The sports that were part of these second Inclusive Games are chair handball, karate, fencing, archery, hockey, athletics, badminton, chair basketball, judo, swimming, rugby, taekwondo, table tennis and triathlon. EFE
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