MADRID, 10 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish cyclist Ricardo Ten recognized this Wednesday that adapted sport “changed” his life “completely” and “facilitated” his integration into society, after both arms and his left leg were amputated due to being electrocuted by touching a power cable. high tension when he was a child, although now he faces his sixth Paralympic Games in Paris.
“Parasports changed my life completely, it helped me adapt to my new situation, continue being part of my group of friends, being able to share with them, it made my integration much easier,” Ten confessed in statements to the Paralympic Games in a video published on social networks.
For this reason, he sent “a lot of encouragement to all those people who have unfortunately suffered an illness, an accident, or had a disability” and encouraged them “to practice sports.” “Beyond competitive sport there is also recreational, social sport. In the end it is about having good times with friends and colleagues,” he explained.
“Sport in my life is super important, everything revolves around sport, from a very young age it helped me overcome my disability and now it allows me to dedicate myself to something that I love. What I like most about cycling is that when you come to a city new to competing allows you to discover many corners, and other disciplines do not allow it,” he added.
Ten said that he started playing sports “from a very young age” because he “always” liked “all types” of disciplines. “I started in the world of competitive swimming, later I switched to cycling. I started cycling after the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, where I finished my career as a swimmer. It has been five years until I reached the Tokyo Games “he recalled.
“Tokyo was a competition where we had high hopes, we believed we could achieve a medal at an individual level, we got a bronze medal in team speed on the track. It was a very good balance, because we improved all our records,” he said about his only medal in adaptive track cycling so far, after winning another seven in swimming since Atlanta 1996, after having participated in five Olympic events.
For Ten, sport was a crucial life argument due to his “very visible disability.” “They amputated both my arms and my left leg, because when I was little I touched a high-voltage cable, I was electrocuted and had major consequences,” she concluded.
2024-04-10 15:27:09
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