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The Caldense Judo League already thinks about the sports and administrative processes that must be carried out to achieve great results in the 2023 National Games, in which the Coffee Region will be the venue.
Training in the League returned since October, although during the pandemic they worked virtually. Some athletes have been hired, as well as a technician in the combat modality, because what is expected with this sporting discipline is to achieve four gold medals and other silver or bronze medals.
“We do not have the complete team for now, we hope that at the end of February we can confirm the new links that are already discussed. However, we need to reach an agreement between athletes and the Government to know the real support. With high performance athletes we have not stopped because we want good results ”, explained José Fredy Cardona, coach of the League.
At the moment there are three clubs that are active that make up the League, there is another that had lost sporting recognition and is in the process of being able to recover it. There is also one that is private from an educational institution, and it is expected that by the end of the year a club in Chinchiná and also one in Neira can be approved.
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As outstanding athletes came Alexander Borja from Antioquia, who is a Colombian team, fulfills the Olympic cycle processes, was national champion in 2015 and silver in 2019. They also brought a pair of male Kata from Cundinamarca, made up of Gerardo Andrés Restrepo and Edwin Gómez, who They are national champions, as well as world runners-up.
“The bet is great, we brought in the Spanish professor for combat, David Flechas, who has already done processes in Colombia with Antioquia. We have recovered Caldense athletes that we want to promote, such as Esteban López, Andrés Felipe Montoya, who was already a medalist, as well as Catherine Arias, who lives in the United States ”, the coach clarified.
In 2020 there were 120 athletes who were registered in the League in the sub categories 11,13,15,18, 21 and older. This counting on the fact that the desertion has been great, because it has not been possible to have competitions, since Judo is a contact sport and due to biosecurity issues, organizing the competition schedules has not been easy.
This League remained strategic in the categorization made by the Departmental Sports Secretariat. Contracts with the Government have not yet been signed and it is expected that as of February they can be carried out with the budget that corresponds to them. Two months ago, the athlete Leonardo Londoño assumed the position of president, who will also be on the payroll to participate in 2023.
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