A total of eleven cycling commitments from around the country, and who makes up the renewed Cofidis Team of Paralympic Promisess, they concentrated this weekend on Madrid to prepare physically and mentally for high national and international competition, and one day reach the Spanish Cycling Team.
For the second consecutive year, the activity, held at the facilities of Camilo Jose Cela University (Madrid), included children and adolescents, those known as the Children of Cofidisyoung athletes who enjoy cycling and dream of someday becoming great professionals.
The concentration had the participation of team members from previous seasons. In the group of promises they persist Juan Alberto Jiménez (24 years old, Zaragoza), Markel Alonso (19 years old, Basauri, Vizcaya), and Javier González (21 years old, Miraflores de Sierra, Madrid), and Héctor Esturillo (32 years old, Granada) and Joan Sansó (21 years old, Manacor, Majorca). Iraide Rodríguez (14 years old, Guadarrama, Madrid) and Nacho Rodrigo (14 years old, Valencia) continue Kids promises, and Jordi Zapata (16 years old, Bunyola, Mallorca), Lucía Peña and her pilot Inés Rosado (12 years old, Las Navas del Marqués, Ávila) and Jaime Villalba (16 years old, Alcalá de Guadaira, Seville).
This initiative is part of the project Cofidis is with Youand with the participation of Spanish Paralympic Committee and the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation. The project was born in 2018 with a social goal, to promote social integration and development of people with disabilities through cycling, and another sporting goal, to support the development of Spanish Paralympic cycling.
During concentration, athletes are exposed and roll on the roads of the TRes Cantos (Madrid) led by Begoña Luís Pérez, technical director of the Cofidis Team of Paralympic Promises since the beginning of the project, and he also manages to provide visibility to the cycling sport to populations with disabilities and doing talent detection of Paralympic cyclists who, thanks to Cofidis support through this project, will achieve results in high performance.
In addition to conducting a variety of exercises with different types of bikes tailored to each athlete, and receiving practical advice on physical preparation, participants had the opportunity to attend motivational talks about self -improvement and winning mentality sport psychologist Manuela Rodríguez Marotespecialize in high performance sports.
“Through acts of solidarity like this, outlined within our ambitious plan of Corporate Social Responsibilitywe want to take another step in our commitment to society by bringing together, through sport, young people with functional diversity, who are a clear example of overcoming and inspiring new generations of athletes to achieve their dreams ”, he pointed out. Anna Golsa, Director of Digital Business and Marketing at Cofidis.
Source: La Verdad
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