‘Train’ Valencia is doing a political campaign in Colombia

Olympic weightlifting champions Maria Isabel Urrutia and Oscar Figueroa and the glories of Colombian soccer Adolfo “the Train” Valencia and Willington Ortiz On Tuesday they joined the campaign of Gustavo Petro, the presidential candidate of the leftist coalition Historical Pact.

“vWe encourage you to support him and support the sport, because it hurts me (what’s going on). I was 15, 16 years old and now I can see how these kids are missing usor, ”said“ El Tren ”Valencia, a former Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid player in the 1990s.

Valencia and Ortiz, idols of América de Cali and Millonarios, gave the candidate a Colombian national team shirt saying “1st round champions”referring to the May 29 election.

In an action in Bogotá, retired athletes joined the cause of Petroleading polls of intent to vote for elections.

Urrutiawho in 2000 won the first gold in Colombian history at the Olympic Games in the 75-kilogram test in Sydney, and Figueroa, who won the 62-kilogram weightlifting in Rio 2016, was the most visible face of the group of athletes who decided to support Petro.

In that sense, the retired weightlifter ensured that the sport should not be a public policy but “a State policy.”

“That our president says sport should be state policyor (…) because sometimes we find ministers who think the ball is moving because there is a frog inside, “Urrutia said.

In addition to weightlifters and former soccer players, the former boxer participated in the event Fidel Bassa, world flyweight champion of the World Boxing Association between 1987 and 1989, and Angie Orjuelamarathon runner who participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics, among others.

Petro and Federico “Fico” Gutierrez, of the right-wing Team for Colombia, are emerging as favorites to fight the Presidency in the second round, according to a survey published on April 29.

The survey, by the firm Invamer, indicates that Petro, former mayor of Bogotá and current senator, has 43.6% of the intention to vote for May 29 and leads by 16.9 percentage points in Gutierrezreaching 26.7%, which would require a second round of the same contention on June 19th.

The survey, commissioned by the newspaper El Espectador, the broadcaster Blu Radio and Caracol Newspointed out that the former mayor of Bucaramanga is in third place Rodolfo Hernandezwith 13.9%, while the former governor of Antioch Sergio Fajardo continues the free fall and returns 6.5% of the intention to vote.