Frank: "We want to match the premiums of Olympians and Paralympians"

The president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Franco, and the president of the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), Miguel Carballeda, arrived in Tokyo last Thursday to accompany our athletes, who already have 27 medals – with bronze de Garrote en route—, and the 31 metals of Rio are about to hunt down. “They coincide with the forecasts, but the scare that we had when we started … We did not know how the other countries were coming for the pandemic. Just how are ours, what it cost us and I think we have hit those five bubbles and in the planning to ensure we can be here. It was the most important thing. We are very satisfied because you are always afraid that there will be a debacle. We have had a slump in some sports, but the team as a whole will give us joy. We always talk about medals, but there are many important things behind it. Yesterday when Ricardo Ten fell round from a heat stroke, he demonstrated his pride by shouting from the ground that he wanted the bike again. That says a lot, “Carballeda explained at the meeting with displaced journalists in Tokyo.

One of the great novelties of these Games is the increase in the amount for medals Paralympics, prizes co-financed jointly by the CSD and the CPE. The gold medal has a compensation of 70,000 euros; the silver one, € 35,000 and the bronze one, € 21,000. An important step towards real equality among athletes. “We do not know when it will be possible because it depends on budgetary issues, but with the passage of time we want to equalize the premiums of Olympians and Paralympians. I cannot commit it to a period of time, but it is our wish and goal, “said Franco, proud that society is increasingly aware of Paralympic sport:”We are ensuring that people who have just seen the Olympic Games do not disconnect and get hooked on the Paralympics. Something that also implies evaluating certain examples because many athletes, in addition to training, study and work. We have certain complexes that we must overcome and one of the ways is this clear and determined commitment to Paralympic sport and to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities“.

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The Chairman of the Committee picked up the glove and thanked him for his involvement and that of the entire Government. “Along the way we meet people who understand it better and others who have a hard time. Those are the mental barriers, the worst. There are others who look very good to the media, but when there is a need they look the other way. This has not happened now. We have increased our budgets in an extraordinary way when things are not enough and we are going step by step. But it is not only a question of money, but of dignity and equal treatment and in Paris it will be an ideal time for full equality“predicted Carballeda.

The president of the CPE also referred to the words of Teresa Perales, after winning her silver medal, in which she assured that there were people who had recommended her not to go to Tokyo injured. “There has been no questioning. From the CPE they spoke with her to have all the precautions and not to do something improper because you can load a shoulder forever. Our obligation is to help in these matters. Fortunately, he has a medical team behind him that already had planned the operation on his shoulder after the Games“he reported.

Another issue on the table is that of generational change, assured in many sports and in the air, in some other. “The promising teams are working perfectly, but some things are very difficult and I worry that for Beijing (Winter Games) we are running out of athletes. We have to try to get the young kids out of their cell phones and computers and help them learn to go down 100 km / h down a mountain. It is not easy, but we are working on it, “he said.

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