The spanish olympic team will be integrated into Tokyo 2020 for about one dozen of representatives of the Balearic Islands that are part of the expedition of 314 athletes -183 men and 131 women- already classified for the Olympic Games, as reported this Wednesday Alexander White, president of the Spanish Olympic Committee.
Among the Balearic representatives confirmed for the appointment are the gymnast Nicolau Mir, the walker Marc Tur, the triathlete Mario Mola, the canoeist Marcus Cooper, the cyclists Albert Torres Y Mavi garcia, The swimmers Joan Lluís Pons Y Hugo Gonzalez, el skater Jaime Mateu, the sailors Paula Barcelo Y Joan Cardona or the footballer Marco Asensio, who despite being called up with the Spanish team, still does not have 100% guaranteed his place.
The sport with the highest number of representatives at the national level is athletics with 48, followed by swimming with 45. There will also be representatives in basketball (24), handball (28), boxing (4), cycling (12), fencing (1 ), soccer (18), gymnastics (9), golf (4), weightlifting (4), horse riding (5), hockey (32), judo (7), modern pentathlon (1), canoeing (15), rowing ( 6), taekwondo (4), tennis (8), table tennis (3), archery (2), Olympic shooting (2), triathlon (5), sailing (15), volleyball (4), skating ( 3), mountain and climbing (1) and karate (2).
There are 29 ranked federations and four (rugby, baseball and softball, wrestling and surfing) that will not have representation in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics will be marked by the global COVID-19 pandemic that forced the appointment from 2020 to 2021 to be postponed.
«We are the Olympic Committee that has given the most vaccines. In total 1940 people. With this number, the International Olympic Committee has highlighted us as the Olympic Committee that has most supported the measures to support the health of the Olympic family », He said Alexander White, who regretted the absences in the Games of the tennis player from Manacor Rafel nadal and the badminton player Carolina Marin, of which he said that “the Olympic movement will miss them.”
Nadal has decided not to go to Tokyo for sporting reasons due to his planning of the season and Carolina Marín due to a serious injury from which he is recovering. “We will miss them, but especially the Olympic movement. Imagining a Games without them costs a lot. Rafa has given us a lot. The decision is tough, but we give him our full support because he is the great icon of the world sports movement », said the president of the Spanish Olympic Committee about the tennis player from Manacor.
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