Iván Holguín López / @ivan_baloncesto
The Cali Junior Pan American Games they began today and (with the broadcast of Meridiano Televisión), with some competitions where several Creole athletes were present. However, the most representative moment of the day came with the inaugural parade of the great event, where Venezuela had as flag bearers two different athletes than those that were stipulated.
Cali 2021 https://t.co/ysOjFMXuj3
– Venezuelan Olympic Committee (@OfficialCOV) November 25, 2021
The standard bearers
At first, it was considered that at the head of the Creole delegation they would be carrying the tricolor flag, Katherin Echandía and the U23 baseball team.
But a few minutes before the start of the event, the journalist Andrés Henríquez reported through his social networks that the baseball team would not be at the ceremony, since they had to travel to Barranquilla where tomorrow they will play their first match of the tournament against Nicaragua. In the same way Henríquez confirmed that Echandía I would not be at the ceremony.
#CaliValle2021 ð ???? »ð ???? ª In the end Manuel Quijada, from Badminton, will carry the national flag in the inaugural parade of @CaliValle2021
The @TeamBeisbolVe He is already in Barranquilla to face Nicaragua tomorrow.
Katherine Echandia starts the 49kg in the weights tomorrow.
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– Andrés Henríquez (@alejohtkd) November 26, 2021
Henríquez had announced that Manuel Quijada of the representation of Badminton It would be the only one who would carry the flag, however, for the inauguration the athlete would have the company of the Creole representative in the heptathlon, Marienger chirinos.
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– Andrés Henríquez (@alejohtkd) November 26, 2021
In the Tokyo 2020 Olympics something similar happened, when Yulimar Rojas was unable to attend the opening ceremony and Karen Leon was the athlete who accompanied Antonio Diaz as standard bearers of the event.
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