45 athletes will represent Mexico in the Deaflympic Games

Of the May 1 to 15the Mexican delegation of deaf athletes will represent our country in the twenty-fourth edition of the Deaflympics Games which will be headquartered Caxias city southern, Brazilwhich is why, last Wednesday afternoon, the squad made up of 45 athletes met with authorities National Commission of Physical Culture and Sports (conade) to carry out the flag and leave for the Brazilian country.

This ceremony was attended by the director of the National Center for the Development of Sports Talents and High Performance, Cynthia Leyva Rhoa; the president of Mexican Paralympic Committee (COPAME), Liliana Suarez Carreon; Maria Eugenia Rivera Lara, president of the Mexican Sports Federation For the deaf and in the absence of Ana Gabriela Guevarahead of Conade, was the undersecretary Adolfo Fierro Rodriguez.

The escort was made up of the flag bearer Maria Isabel Huitron Angeles from judo; Lourdes Ponce Juárez of athletics, Francisco Alberto Ibarra Fong from football; Jorge Manuel Martínez Covarrubias of karate, Luis Felipe Villarreal Cepeda of taekwondo and Juan Pablo Flores Fonseca of volleyball.

The role of Mexico in these competitions

In sports, this is the first time that Mexico will attend competing in six disciplinesbecause previously he had only done it in five and this time they will debut in it volleyball varonil and the football. They attend the Deaflympic Games 17 selected from soccer, 17 from volleyball, five from taekwondo, three from karate, two from athletics and one judo athlete.

One of the Mexicans to follow is Isabel Huitronwho became the first Mexican to win a gold medal in Deaflympics Games in the 2017 edition in Samsun, Turkey. The football team got his ticket after qualifying in the tournament that took place in Chile in 2019. The selection of women’s volleyball made it through to the qualifying event Brazil 2019while men’s volleyball obtained its direct classification.

The selected athletics got their pass in the last National Games for the Deaf.

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What are deaflympics?

The Deaflympics are a sporting event that takes place every four years just like the Olympic Games, they even last a little longer than the last ones and have become a worldwide movement that makes a good cause visible, although they have been singled out for not wanting to belong to the Paralympic GamesWell, according to experts, this is a disability that could be part of their game plan.

Like the Olympics, the deaflympics are held in both summer and winter and cover almost the same sports as in a normal fair, except that in winter the only team sports that can be held are curling y hockey and in individual it is not possible to practice ice skating.

In turn, a very noticeable difference between these competitions is that the visual predominates, since whistles or shots cannot be used, everything has to be with a colored flag that athletes can easily see.

The first of these competitions was held in France in the year 1924 and have only been put on pause for reasons of force majeure, as was the WWII and the pandemic caused by covid-19. Most of these competitions have been based in Europe and only six times have they been held outside of it.

The opening ceremony of the fair that will bring together representatives from 117 countries will be held on May 1 and Mexico will have its first appearance on the 3rd in the discipline of judo.