In the midst of the adjustment carried out by President Javier Milei to achieve zero deficit, the double Olympic judo medalist Paula Pareto, and her historic coach, Laura Martinel, renounced their scholarships awarded by the Argentine Judo Confederation (CAJ) to coordinate high-performance youth teams, with the aim that this money can help other athletes defunded as a result of Milei’s decision.
The athlete, who until now was in charge of the Under 13, Under 15 and Under 18 youth teams, informed her decision after the Sports Secretariat, headed by Julio Garro, asked to reduce the number of scholarships for the 18-year-old. current to only four.
Martinel, the current national coach of the CAJ, explained in a television interview: “I was put in the difficult situation of carrying out this pruning, which the truth is I am not willing to do it because it is not fair. “I am not going to sign the death certificate of my sport.”
And he added: “Thinking about how to be able to retain as many scholarship recipients as possible, I decided to resign and give up my scholarship, and when I told Paula, she told me that she was going to do the same. So we have both decided to resign so that these funds go to finance more athletes.”
For her part, La Peque assured: “We do have the sport we want in mind. A boy who is 23 years old today is the one we need for 2028.”
“What happens is very hard. Going from 18 to 4 cannot be handled, it is very difficult to talk about it with the kids. For me, from an athlete’s point of view, it would have weighed me down. There are many kids who are living in Buenos Aires paying rent and things that already cost them a lot and telling them from one day to the next that they are going to have one less income is hard. They will end up going home and the sport will stop growing. Beyond the sadness that this entails, because it is already a very big effort that they make to leave their families and their friends in their respective provinces, when these things happen it is like everything is thrown out of whack and they don’t deserve it,” lamented Pareto.
“It’s hard; The only thing I can say is that it makes me very sad as a former athlete,” he concluded.
2024-05-11 22:10:11
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