Galicia presents 25 tricks in Tokyo

There can always be disagreements in the total number, depending on the degree of demand in the Galician movement of the aforementioned, but Galicia will present a complete team made up of 25 athletes from twelve different disciplines at the imminent Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. The most represented are canoeing and judo, with four components per beard, although among the judokas there are none born in this land and their relationship is adjusted to the federative file and the clubs to which they belong.

Be that as it may, the Galician sports fan will not have too much time to get bored. Even before the opening ceremony officially opens the Games on Friday the 23rd, on the 22nd there could be a Galician gambling for the long-awaited medals in Japan. In this case, the cangués soccer goalkeeper Iván Villar, although his case is special. The Spanish Olympic Committee does not include him among the Olympians because he is the third goalkeeper and is one of the two extra players that FIFA allows to move. And the day to day will continue with interest for the Galicians until, possibly, the same August 8, the date of the closing.

Athletics (3), basketball (3), handball (2), soccer (1), judo (4), skateboarding (1), archery (1), canoeing (4), rowing (1), triathlon (1 ), sailing (3) and boxing (1). Such is the variety of sports. And, in many of them, not only with the intention of competing, but with options to step on the podium and bite the medal. Making forecasts is always complicated, but hovering around the five Galician medals does not seem exaggerated considering that the base options exceed ten.

How to get that precious award will be able to talk to their colleagues who have already tasted it and choose to repeat it. That is, the triathlete Javier Gómez Noya and the sailor Támara Echegoyen. Although if it is about experience, the kangaroo paddler Teresa Portela can give lessons, as she attends her sixth Olympic event, nothing more and nothing less. The three of them are the captains of a Galician team willing to leave their marks in the Games marked by the pandemic. They will not have an audience in the stands, but they will from Galicia through the screens. Even if it is early morning.