Shortly after 8:30 pm, the Spanish delegation to the Paris Olympic Games – or part of it, with many casualties due to sports calendar commitments – began to parade along the Seine as part of the opening ceremony.
Wearing the red of their jackets as the dominant color, the Spaniards, probably a little less than half of the total delegation of 383 athletes traveling to the Games, occupied 90 percent of one of the boats. At the tail of the boat, only a dozen Estonian athletes. Spain began to walk as the rain began to pour down the route again.
Like other countries, the flag holders are placed on the bow of the ship. COE-designated Támara Echegoyen and Marcus Cooper, both Olympic champions, waved the flag while the other athletes greeted, smiled and pulled out their cell phones to immortalize the party. Some of them had to show up four hours early, and the organization warned them that the duration of the commitment, until the end of the party, would keep them outside the athletes’ village for about eight hours.
French television production, economical and ‘economical’, offers only about twenty seconds of images of Spain. And none of the Royal Family, who were present in the stands.
Carlos Alcaraz and Rafa Nadal, who made their doubles debut on Saturday, were the two most notable absences from the Spanish boat. Competition comes first.
Source: La Verdad
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