The Municipal Executive Power of Viedma enacted Ordinance No. 8,721 that will give the name “Paseo de los Olímpicos” to the street that goes
from the Ricardo Balbín collector to Presidente Alfonsín Avenue, that is, the entrance artery to the Institute of Physical Education and the official pool.
The ordinance arose from a project presented by Mayor Pedro Pesatti with several weighty arguments from a sporting point of view.
It indicates that until now “we have been awarded as residents of the city with the Olympic representation of seven athletes in an uninterrupted course of 30 years, from 1988 to 2016 in different venues.”
For all these reasons, it was considered essential to recognize those who have carried the Argentine flag to the world, representing the Province of Río Negro and placing the City of Viedma at the top.
In the count of representatives, it is important to
José Luis Marello and Gustavo Cirillo for their participation in canoeing in Seoul 1988; José Luis Marello in canojate in Barcelona 1992; Javier Correa in canoeing at Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004; Diego Rosatti in Judo in Beijing 2008; Miguel Correa in canoeing in Beijing 2008 and London 2012; Hector “Toto” Campos in judo in London 2012 and Agustín Vidal in Handball in Rio de Janeiro 2016.
Another foundation is that the street that runs from Balbín to Alfonsín, parallel to Esandi, starts between the Cayetano Arias Sports Center and Paulo VI, and reaches the Municipal Athletics Track, flowing into the Río Negro, “has been of great importance for access to sports since this sector turns out to be a place of high sports influence in this city, not only because it is the entrance to the Institute for Continuing Teacher Training in Physical Education, but also because the historic Ángel Cayetano Arias Sports Center and its attached gym, the swimming pool, the sand sports box, the municipal athletics track, the hockey field and the bank of the Negro River with its Municipal Canoeing School”.
For all the above, it is evident that the name “Paseo
of the Olympics” is the appropriate name because it is an area with so much sporting interference that it has high possibilities of being the cradle of many more recognized athletes in the world and who carry the Viedma flag in the five continents.
