About twenty Colombian athletes sent a letter to the president this Monday Gustavo Petro to ask him to form a “National Sports Table” that guarantees that the country can maintain prominence in the different international scenarios and in the face of the “situation” that this sector is experiencing.
“Today, given the situation that sport is going through in Colombia, we want, with due respect, to request the articulation of a 'National Sports Table' in order to join forces for the democratization of the population's access to sports, recreation, and physical activity,” they detailed in a letter.
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They added that the idea is for “the entire sector to participate in this table and thus direct the planning process that reflects a more social, more educative, and inclusive sport.”
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The letter is signed, among others, by Caterine Ibarguen, Olympic triple jump champion in Rio 2016; retired tennis players Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah, Wimbledon and US Open doubles champions in 2019, and cyclist
Nairo QuintanaMovistar rider who won the Giro d'Italia in 2014 and the Vuelta a España in 2016.
In the letter they recalled that “Colombia has been achieving an outstanding role in the international sports community with immense efforts.”
“We wish to maintain this prominence with better and greater results for the pride of Colombians. Sports activity requires and needs a great institutional and budgetary effort to consolidate our outstanding positions and achieve many more, which for different reasons have been postponed due to lack of awareness about the importance of sport in the search for peace in Colombia,” they added.
Nairo Quintana and Egan Bernal.
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Precisely, the Boyaca rider has been clear in stating that sport in the country must be important for the Colombian government and private companies.
“If we make them understand with numbers and statistics, doing projects, advancing ourselves and teaching them that it can be viable,” he said in As.
And he added: “Many of us sometimes sit down to criticize or point, but we do not lift a finger as leaders that we are in sports, culture. What is needed is for someone to take that voice, start doing projects, start helping and that, through that help, they begin to show numbers.”
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