Olympic Judo Champion and Coach Sacrifice Scholarships Due to Budget Cuts: Concern for the Future of Argentine Judo

The Olympic judo champion and her coach Laura Martinel made the difficult decision to give up their sports scholarships due to the budget cuts implemented by the Sports Secretariat.

The measure, which reduces the number of judokas who will receive financial support for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games from 18 to 4, generated great concern in the sports community.

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“I always say that I don’t talk about politics because I don’t understand, but dropping the number of athletes from 18 to 4 is difficult,” Pareto expressed in dialogue with TyC Sports.

The Olympic judoka, who had already announced her retirement from competition after the Tokyo 2020 Games, decided together with her coach to renounce her scholarships so that they could be reassigned to other athletes with greater projection.

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“It’s very hard because 18 to 4 is a number that is very difficult to handle, it is very difficult to talk about it with the kids. From the point of view of an athlete it would have weighed on me,” Pareto added.

Concern for the future of Argentine judo

Pareto and Martinel’s decision not only represents a gesture of solidarity with their colleagues, but also highlights the deep concern that exists in Argentine judo about the impact that the budget cut will have on the development of this sport.

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“There is a lot of concern in the Athletes Commission because it is not known what will happen after Paris. Today our eyes are on the Olympic Games, but afterward there is no certainty,” Pareto said.

Laura Martinel, for her part, emphasized that the government’s measure “puts our sport at risk because we need to have an active mass of athletes training and obviously, the coaches.”

2024-05-12 17:58:01
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