Mexico Fields Strongest Delegation Ever for Paris Olympics, Sports Leader Vows Unity
Mexico's National Sports Commission leader praised athletes' dedication for the Paris Olympics, highlighting teamwork and past successes. She believes this delegation is the strongest in history and aims to make a lasting impact on Mexican sports.
In the week of the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the general director of the National Commission of Physical Culture and Sports (CONADE), Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza, praised the work, preparation and dedication that the Mexican delegation maintained searching for an outstanding role in the next summer competition.
During the press conference she offered this Monday at the Villas Tlalpan facilities, the head of this institution shared the commitment that remains on the part of CONADE and trusts that the next edition of the great sporting event will mark a before and after in the history of Mexican sport.
“Paris 2024 promises to be one of the best moments for national sport in which Mexico can stand in Olympic Games and glimpse what can build the future of our country in sports; it is a time to unite and support us as a nation, Mexico has fulfilled as never before with the accompaniment of its athletes,” he assured.
“It is a historic moment for national sports, a crucial moment in the careers of athletes. From this Commission, I express my deepest pride and satisfaction for the work done so far by the athletes and admiration for their dedication, effort and perseverance crystallized up to this moment, reaching the Olympic Games,” she added.
Ana Gabriela Guevara highlighted the teamwork that has resulted in a strong Mexican delegation that boasts as one of the best in Mexican sports history and assured that there are no individualism but only a tricolor team.
“It is necessary that we highlight the values of discipline, honesty, transparency, respect and spirit that will make every moment shine, every test we will be with them, it is a collective that must reflect the unity and shared effort, the companionship in this journey, here there are no priorities we are a team, we are the Mexican team, the medals and the results will be Mexico's,” she detailed.
Likewise, the head of CONADE applauded the achievement of successes that preside over Paris 2024 after the championship in the Central American and Caribbean Games San Salvador 2023 and the historic performance in the Pan American Games Santiago 2023 and the athletes who were consecrated as world medalists after overcoming the difficulties that the pandemic by COVID-19 generated in the past Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
“It is time to make a reflection of everything that happened concluded Tokyo 2020, a compact and complicated process, I applaud the moment of resilience. It was a 2023 that sounded dangerous because of the two fundamental events; however, they turned it into a moment of glory, a 2023 that opened the guideline to be consecrated as the best, that we are part of the best Mexican delegation in Pan American and achieve the passports to Paris, the results dressed and adorned the vision of Mexican sport that we want to have,” she said.
“I am convinced that this team worked well enough to reflect what we have achieved in our administration, the best results in the history of sports have been crystallized, and we would like to thank the CONADE administration and all of us who constitute this great team,” she commented.
Composed of 107 athletes, Mexico will compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games from July 26 to August 11 in a total of 29 disciplines.
