What is the situation?
To date, a total of three athletes from the Maule region have qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It is about the Grimalt cousins natives of Linares and the canoeist Karen Roco of Constitution.
How did the Grimalt cousins classify?
The national pairs, composed of people from Linares, Esteban and Marco Grimaltin addition to Noé Aravena and Vicente Droguett, won the Continental Cup after beating Argentina 3-2 in the series, for which, the entire Team Chile Beach Volleyball qualified for the Olympic Games.
And in the case of Karen Roco?
Karen Roco He achieved classification in C1 200 meters, where in the first instance, the objective will be to qualify for the Olympic final.
As was?
The exponent who achieved qualification for the five ring event, with the help of her personal trainer, Jonathan Tafra. Roco will travel to Europe on July 1, to adapt and prepare the last details for this Olympic event.
What happened?
In the middle of these days, the native of Constitución, who continues training, precisely, in La Perla del Maule for this event, met with the SEREMI of Sports of the region, Ivan Sepúlvedaand the regional director of the IND, Zenen Valenzuelawho said goodbye to her and wished her every success in this new experience.
What did he say?
“Emotionally, it has been too difficult to carry out this process from the region, specifically from the Constitution, and thanks to the people, my emotional state has been much better. I have tried to carry out this process with a lot of joy, motivation, discipline, so happy and excited. Now we hope from August 4th to 12th you can be rowing those 200 meters with me. “Thank you to the people who are always supporting me in every way, through social networks and who are always aware of my sports career,” Roco stated.
The Grimalt cousins, in the center in the photograph, are part of the Chile Volleyball Team, all qualified for the Olympic Games.
