In a statement dated March 8, the Ministry of Sports announced that “in 60 days he has canceled $ 8 million of outstanding balances from 2023 to organizations and athletes.” In the first paragraph, in fact, the State portfolio says that “the payments corresponding to the High Performance stimuli for sporting achievements,” among others, “were crystallized.” That is, they take it as a fact. However, 130 days after Olympic Games, EXPRESO confirms that the Ministry’s version does not adjust to reality, since the majority of athletes who are part of the High Performance Plan They received their payments only until November, and a few, until December. But today, there is not a single one.
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The fighter Lucía Yépez, In conversation with this newspaper, he assures that expect three months’ payments, although the fourth has already passed. “The truth is that it is a very difficult situation for us who are in an Olympic year and it is not known what will happen with everyone’s preparation. They owe us since December, we have asked and they tell us that Finance Until today (last Saturday) he does not pay, and the truth is we need to continue with our preparation,” he emphasizes.
Being canceled on the weekend is practically impossible. But that’s not all, athletes know that the moment the next payment arrives will only be December and not those corresponding to the first quarter of this 2024. The most complex thing is that at this time of the year they do not know what events they will be able to attend. Yépez, for example, was able to carry out a training base in Hungary thanks to the financing of Committee Ecuadorian Olympic (COE), who used his resources.
“The bases in Spain and Mexico Yes, they were paid by the Ministry, because they were for the Pan American Games, and my teammates had to seek classification, but now that everything has been achieved, we are in nowhere, without our payments,” details La Tigra. She, along with Luisa Valverde, Génesis Reasco and Andrés Montaño, They have their place in Paris 2024, but they do not know what their events will be financed in these months towards the Olympic event.
Changing sports, in judo, to the national team they never received the budget for your first quarter planning. They were training together so as not to lose their level while waiting for the money to arrive for a base in Europe, but the resources definitely did not arrive and the little they had was already gone, since they only had accommodation in the COE residence, because they had to pay for food. “To make matters worse, the washing machines had been damaged and it was time to send the clothes to be washed,” he details. Lenin Preciado to EXPRESS.
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For those who live outside the country the situation is even more complex. The karateka Cristina Orbe and the microtennis player Emiliano Riofrío, both reside in Madrid Spain. The first has had to use her savings and start teaching her sport to children, or appeal to her parents for support. In fact, her Federation has already warned her that, for the Pan-American May, in Uruguay, will not have the assignment.
Riofrío, for its part, has been one of the most critical and desperate for what is happening. “I depend a lot on these payments. For example, the months before December were not paid in one lump sum, but in parts. It’s our turn put out of our pocket to continue preparation in Europe; It should not be like this, since it is our incentive for the achievements we have achieved.”
The judoka Lenin Preciado He says that he was greatly surprised when he learned of the weightlifter’s public complaints. Angie Palacios, when two weeks ago he assured that They owed four months. “I thought that those athletes who are better off had their payments prioritized,” he says strangely.
The same reaction has David Hurtado when chatting with EXPRESO. He says he entered confusion, because he thought that everyone had been paid until December like him and other marchers. He doesn’t understand why this difference. And the reality is that there does not seem to be a logical explanation, since Rosalba Chacha, Also in athletics and classified for Paris 2024 (that is, in the same condition as Hurtado), she has not been able to collect the last month of the previous year, according to herself to this newspaper.
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In relation to that, the minister Andrés Guschmer, During his visit to our editorial office on March 4, he tried to explain that the athletes who had complained until then were because they were still They did not receive their transfers, implying that they were going to be completed as the days went by. But it has not been like that, and in fact, no athlete fully understands in what order the procedures are going.
Preciado details that there is no fluid communication either and that he no longer trusts the coordinator of his sport: “Right now I don’t know whether to believe. He tells us that they already pay next week and that turns into two, three months.”
For the judoka experimenter the answer may lie in the payment of the IESS, Well, it is important to note that it is the athletes who must assume your social security and only then do they pay them their monthly payment. “If you don’t pay until the 10th of each month, they leave you to collect the next month,” he details. That need has made him even have to lend to your colleagues those values, because many have problems gathering that value.
At the pace things are going, Preciado is pessimistic Regarding payments for 2024: “Previously we have had to wait, but this time it has been too much. Honestly, I don’t see that January, February and March can be equal not even in April.
Although athletes chat and consult each other’s situation, they have not been able to meet or organize a meeting. joint claim, but the judoka believes that that would be ideal. “It may also be that there are fear of complaining, but you have to be realistic and sincere, the truth is that they have not paid. It’s time to speak, for one and for all,” he concludes.
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2024-03-18 03:39:53
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