Petro hands over the national flag to Colombian flag bearers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

President Gustavo Petro and Minister of Sport, Luz Cristina López, They delivered to him, this Wednesday, July 3, the national flag to the Colombian delegation that will compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, made by 87 athletes -50 women and 37 men.

Colombia’s flag bearers during the opening ceremony of the Paris Games will be Flor Denis Ruiz, world runner-up in javelin throwing, and Kevin Quintero, world champion cyclist in the keirin category.

The president of the Colombian Olympic Committee (COC), Ciro Solano Hurtado, He highlighted that this entity is celebrating its 88th anniversary, “the same number of athletes qualified this year“, a figure that exceeds that of the Tokyo 2020 Games, in which 71 Colombian athletes participated.

For its part, President Petro congratulated the athletes presents and wished them that “can enjoy those moments so small in time but so important in a person’s life“, after receiving the official Colombian delegation shirt from the flag bearers.

With the tennis player Camila Osorio, Colombia’s 88th place for these games after its victory in the first round of Wimbledon, there are 50 women qualified, making this edition the third with the highest number of Colombian women, only surpassed by the 73 of Rio de Janeiro 2016 and the 58 of London 2012.

Colombia will participate in 17 sports: weightlifting, boxing, athletics, judo, wrestling, cycling, gymnastics, archery, triathlon, equestrian, canoeing, swimming, sailing, fencing, golf, skateboarding and women’s soccer: one more discipline than in Tokyo.

This year, the Colombian Government has allocated a budget of almost 120 billion pesos (about 29 million dollars or 27 million euros) for the preparation of its athletes for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which will take place from July 26 to August 11.

EFE