The Argentine Olympic judo champion Paula Paretto resigned from her scholarship as coordinator of the high-performance youth teams of the Argentine National Team, after the Secretariat of Tourism, Environment and Sports of the Ministry of the Interior of Argentina (led by Daniel Scioli, and whose undersecretary is Julio Garro) asked the Argentine Judo Confederation to “reduce” the number of scholarship athletes from 18 to 4. “I made the decision to give up my scholarship to contribute something. But this is unsustainable. “When you are an athlete, they demand results from you, but they give you less and less,” she denounced. Her historic coach and current national coach of the CAJ, Laura Martinel, took the same measure: “it is signing the death certificate of my sport.” The new adjustment measure is in line with the emptying of Javier Milei’s management of two key organizations in the sports development of Argentina: the National High Performance Sports Center (CeNARD), an exclusive space built in 1953 for the high-performance athletes can carry out their training; and the National High Performance Sports Entity (ENARD), created in 2009, whose financial resources come from a 1% charge applied to the payment of mobile phone bills. By ANRed.
Within the framework of the brutal adjustment with which Javier Milei’s government is advancing in various areas to achieve the fiscal and financial “surplus” promised to the IMF, the Secretariat of Tourism, Environment and Sports of the Ministry of the Interior of Argentina (led by Daniel Scioli, and whose undersecretary is the former mayor of La Plata, Julio Garro) asked the Argentine Judo Confederation (CAJ) to “reduce” the number of scholarship athletes from 18 to 4.
Given this strong adjustment measure, The Argentine Olympic judo champion Paula Paretto resigned, along with her historic coach and current national coach of the CAJ, Laura Martinel, from her scholarship as coordinator of the high-performance youth teams of the Argentine National Team Sub 13, Sub 15 and Sub 18 . The objective is, given the cut, to contribute something to other athletes can be financed with that money.
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«I made the decision to give up my scholarship to contribute something. But this is unsustainable. “When you are an athlete, they demand results from you, but they give you less and less,” denounced Paretto. And he added: «we do have in mind the sport we want and a strategy for the development of our sport. A boy who is 23 years old today is the one we need for 2028. It is going to cost much more for the younger ones to arrive. Without that litter, we are losing a cycle«.
Along the same lines, he added: «eIt’s very hard because from 18 to 4 is a number that is very difficult to handle, 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,” lament.
Finally, he pointed out that we have to pull “to the same side” because “it isIf we want the Argentine flag to grow, we also have to support sport. And he recognized that there is “a lot of concern and uncertainty” about what may happen to Argentine sport after Paris 2024the Games that begin on July 26.
The Olympic judo winner Laura Paretto with her historic coach and current National Coach of the CAJ, Laura Martinel.
Meanwhile, Martinel expressed in a television interview: “I was put in the difficult situation of carrying out this pruning, which the truth is I’m not willing to do it because it doesn’t seem fair to me., and because I think it is signing the death certificate of my sport. Thinking about how to be able to retain the largest number of scholarship holders possible is that I decided to give up or give up my scholarship from the Ministry of Sports so that there is more funding for more athletes and Paula, When I told him what was happening he told me ‘I also give up mine‘. So we have both decided to resign so that these funds go to finance more athletes,” he explained.
‘Peque’ Paretto was the first Argentine woman to become Olympic champion at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. As a precedent, in 2008, she had won bronze in Beijing.
The removal of scholarships for high-performance athletes by the government, through Scioli and Garro, is directly related to the emptying of two key organizations in the sports development of Argentina: the National Center for High Sports Performance (CeNARD), an exclusive space built in 1953 so that high-performance athletes can carry out their training; and the National High Performance Sports Entity (ENARD)created in 2009, whose financial resources come from a 1% charge applied to the payment of mobile phone bills.
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