CaixaBank, official sponsor of the Spanish Paralympic Committee since 2019 and entity linked to the ADOP plan, continues its support for Paralympic sport, accompanying its athletes in the final stage of preparation for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games , which will be held this summer. Because of this, it organized an inclusive sports day in Palma where 250 students participated to accompany triathletes Nils Riudavets and Álex Sánchez in their ‘Road to Paris’ where swimmer Xavi Torres also participated.
Throughout the morning, the young people participating in the day had the opportunity to practice various inclusive sports events organized by the Mallorca Integra Foundation, such as paddle tennis, soccer, chair basketball, curling, goalball or boccia, and others. The educational centers and entities that participated are, ASCE of the Princess of Asturias, Sagrado Corazón, San José, La Salle Palma, La Salle Pont d’Inca, Natzaret Foundation, Joan XXIII Board of Trustees, San Vicente de Paul, CEIP of Internships, Discaesports and Esment. In addition, each center contributed an Olympic torch made by students for the occasion.
This initiative, which had the collaboration of the Consell de Mallorca, the Mallorca Integra Foundation and the CaixaBank Volunteers, aims to make disability visible and normal, raise social awareness and bring each of these elite athletes closer in the territory.
The territorial director of CaixaBank in the Balearic Islands, María Cruz Rivera, and Pedro Bestard, second vice president and Minister of Environment, Rural Affairs and Sports of the Consell de Mallorca, welcomed the athletes, who participated in a conversation led of the expert journalist. Almudena Rivera.
The ‘Road to Paris’ project follows a route, imitating the path of the Paralympic flame, passing through each territorial address where the financial institution has divided its activity in Spain. The circuit, where Palma is the tenth stop, started in February in the Canary Islands and will run through Andalusia, the Valencian Community, Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha, Murcia, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Galicia and Barcelona, where it ends in July.
At the same time, CaixaBank organizes various sporting, institutional and collaborative activities with around 20 athletes, which are part of the ADOP plan, to convey the values that the entity shares with the athletes who it and get the message across the territory and society.
The ‘Road to Paris’ will end with a closing event before the Paralympic Games, which will feature a special presentation with the presence of sports and institutional representatives of the Spanish Paralympic Committee, as well as representatives of financial entities.
Source: La Verdad
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