More than three hundred Olympic and Paralympic athletes, some from Chile, Mexico, the United Kingdom or Poland; This Thursday lit up the second edition of the inclusive games Held at the High Performance Center in Madrid.
The competition had five special ambassadors, such as Romania’s Nadia Comaneci, the first gymnast to score points. Perfect at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games; Cuban Javier Sotomayor has held the world high jump record since 1993. Swimmer Teresa Perales, winner of 28 medals in seven Paralympic Games, Morocco’s Hicham El Gurouj, who has held the 1,500m world record since 1998, and Britain’s Jonathan Edwards, who has held the world triple jump record of 18.29m since 1995.
“It’s a great honor to be here. Till now we have only been able to enjoy these all-round games once and this time we added to it. International athletes. It’s incredible. “What we’re doing here is history and we have to repeat it in the rest of the world,” Pereles said.
Nadia Comaneci said along these lines, “One day Sanitas will appear in the history books for this.” Think about athletes. Teresa Rank, who has been competing for decades; And the thought of meeting her in future inclusive games is incredible. “If I have to compete against her in Los Angeles 2028, I will be very worried.”
II Inclusive Games introduced by the Sanitas Foundation with the Spanish Olympic Committee, the Spanish Paralympic Committee, the Council Sports Excellence and Sports Federations Network And they had the honorary presidency of King Felipe VI for disabled sports.
The first edition in 2021 brought together 170 Spanish Olympic and Paralympic athletes. This year the number is 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 were chair handball; Karate, fencing, archery, hockey, athletics, Badminton, chair basketball, judo, swimming, rugby, taekwondo, table tennis and triathlon.