The Red of Vela is already in Marseilles ready to make history again

The Red of Vela is already in Marseilles ready to make history again

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Pletorics want to make history so we show our representation at the Paris Games... that debuts on Sunday

With the arrival of the last athletes to Marseille, the Olympic sailing team is complete and ready to give everything in the waters of Marseille. The thirteen athletes have posed today for the official photo that marks one of the points of reference in the calendar of Paris 2024.

Headed by the Olympic flag Támara Echegoyen, Paula Barceló, Diego Botín, Florian Trittel, Pilar Lamadrid, Nacho Baltasar, Tara Pacheco, Andrés Barrio, Ana Moncada, Joaquín Blanco, Jordi Xammar, Nora Brugman and Gisela Polido have lived one of the most special moments of the Olympic cycle, at the gates of the beginning of the races.

Proud to represent Spain at the Olympic Games, these thirteen athletes also bring to Paris 2024 the colors of six autonomous communities: Andalusia: Pilar Lamadrid and Ana Moncada; Baleares: Paula Barceló and Nacho Baltasar: Canarias: Tara Pacheco, Andrés Barrio and Joaquín Blanco; Cantabria: Diego Botín; Catalonia: Jordi Xammar, Nora Brugman, Gisela Pulido and Florian Trittel; Galicia: Támara Echegoyen.

The athletes are accompanied by the technical team that has followed each of their bords during these three years of preparation. With Xisco Gil as the director of Olympic preparation, the coaches of each class are: Alvaro del Arco and Hamish Wilcox, 49er; Pablo García, Nacra 17; Jano Toro, ILCA 6; Gustavo Lima, ILCA 7; Juan de la Fuente, 470; José Luis Costa and Federico Alonso, 49er FX; Mateo Sanz, iQFOiL female; Marcos Fernández, iQFOiL male; and Antonio Mínguez, Formula Kite female.

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