Mexican sport witnessed Olympic and Paralympic feats and even the courage to face gender judgments, as Mediotiempo revealed
A glance at the results of the Mexican delegation at the Tokyo Olympics is enough to see that the greatest successes were of the athletes, who brought home three of the four Bronze medals that were obtained in the country of the Rising Sun.
They were not the only ones to stand up for Mexican sport, the Liga MX Femenil continues to grow with incredible stories, where more and more followers join the project promoted by Liga MX to make soccer a more equitable sport.
Within these stories there are also some of courage and courage as shown by the Mediotiempo report on the case of a female MX League player disabled for giving an Adverse Analytical Result for testosterone, as a result of a condition called Different Sexual Development and that It has kept her away from her dream.
Olympics that woke up Mexican pride
Alejandra Valencia won Bronze in Mixed Archery along with Luis Álvarez, Aremi Fuentes achieved the same individual Bronze in Weightlifting and divers Gabriela Agúndez and Alejandra Orozco finished in third place on the Synchronized 10-meter Platform. The four athletes raised Mexican pride after an Olympic cycle that was considered a failure as it did not meet the forecasts of the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sports, where 10 medals were expected.
In addition, figures such as Alexa Moreno in artistic gymnastics, the Mexican softball team, boxers Esmeralda Falcón and Brianda Cruz as well as Giuliana Olmos along with Renata Zarazúa in tennis made history by competing in the summer tournament.
The case of Esmeralda Falcón is one of the most outstanding because she became the first boxer to represent Mexico in the Olympic Games after winning a Gold medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla 2018 as well as a Bronze at the Pan American Games in Lima 2019. which accredited him the Olympic place in Lightweight.
María del Rosario Espinoza, a taekwondo player with three Olympic medals and three in World Championships, highlighted the importance of women in sports and in disciplines in which it was not common before to see a female figure.
“Nowadays, when a girl, a young woman wants to play sports is a great opportunity. There are more and more sports in which we get involved, there is more presence. Before, a woman who was in Olympic processes in sports such as boxing was not known, they are joining disciplines, the same fight, judo, “he told Mediotiempo.
For Espinoza, the strength of women in Mexican sports took shape since 2000 with the Gold of Soraya Jiménez in Weightlifting in Sydney 2000.
“I believe that this wave has dragged on since 2000 with Soraya and has not gone down. It is growing more and more. Many women have joined in different generations in which they have built their own history and have remained for history in Mexico. It is the role of inspiring us, it is a chain of that and motivation to help Mexican sports “.
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