José Manuel Franco: “ spain will continue to be an example of diversity, and in reception and integration into the world of sport ”

The Sanniti, next to the CSD, the COE and the CPE, promoting Inclusive first games in history with evidence of the disciplines of triathlon, badminton, judo, taekwondo, swimming, athletics, wheelchair basketball, rugby and table tennis

Athletes as Sara andrés, Fernando Cart, Kim López, Felipe Kings or Mireia Belmonte will constitute some of the participants at this event in which people with and without disabilities will compete for the first time together and according to regulations inclusive

Inclusive Games will be held on 7 october in the high performance centre (CAR) in Madrid of the supreme council for sports

Madrid, 22 september 2021.-The high council of sports (CSD) today welcomed the presentation of the first games inclusive, a sporting event driven by the Sanniti, next to the CSD, the Spanish Paralympic Committee (SCE) and the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), which brings together olympic and paralympic athletes under regulations inclusive.

For the president of the CSD, josé Manuel Franco, “ these games will show us that inclusion is possible ”. After its appreciation to the Sanniti Foundation for his decade of work in promoting sport inclusive in Spain, the secretary of State pointed out that the CSD will have a specific budget allocation for this sport included in the Social Plan within the eur 300 million of funds of recovery, Transformation and Resilience devoted to the momentum of sport.

In addition, Franco has added that the draft bill of sport in the pipeline ” shows the commitment of the government for the integration in sport ”. “ These investments and measures will ensure that Spain will continue to be an example of diversity, and in reception and integration into the world of sport. We know that these Games will be the first of many. And that we will be an example and inspiration for the inclusion in all spheres of life ”, has assured.

The CSD, reflecting its commitment by the sport of persons with disabilities, has co-financed, for the first time, prizes paralympic athletes in the last Paralympic Games in tokyo. In addition, the budgets of the agency for this year has seen an increase of 375% of the funds allocated to the paralympic sport.

This investment effort has been completed with the adoption of a Social Plan for equality and inclusion equipped with $77.8 million euros for the next 3 years, framed in the funds of recovery, transformation and Resilience devoted to the momentum of sport.

For its part, the ceo of Sanniti and CEO of Bupa to Europe and latin America, Iñaki Peralta, has stated that “ Sanniti we firmly believe that sport will be inclusive or it will not. For more than ten years Sanniti Foundation is working to disseminate the inclusion. Therefore, that these games Inclusive will be held in the top sportswomen of our country is an important goal and closes the olympic year after the olympic games and paralympic games with a message of inclusion ”.

“ i wish to emphasise that we have always enjoyed the support of the federations, as well as of the council for sports, Olympic Committee English and Spanish Paralympic Committee, who supported us in this way, ” explained Iñaki Peralta.

They have also spoken by the chairman of the COE, Alejandro white, and his counterpart of the sce, Miguel Carballeda. White has stressed that “ today we are making a society that sport is a meeting point. We are all aware that we are different, because we are all Unique. Differences enrich us and respect ourselves and respect for others is the value that unites us. No matter how different we are each of us, what is important is the magic that holds us together. Carballeda, for its part, wanted to thank the “ Sanniti for having dreams as important and so bold and afford us and our athletes dream alongside them; That have come to Sanniti olympic and paralympic movements is a message of access and ability to overcome. It is a message that it suits us all of society to continue to improve our world ”.

Nine sports inclusive regulations

In the presentation ceremony for the Inclusive Games have become the disciplines that will form part of the agenda: triathlon, badminton, judo, taekwondo, swimming, athletics, wheelchair basketball, rugby and table tennis.

Nine sports with some of the olympic and paralympic athletes more score in our country. Among them, the olympic and paralympic games Sara Andrés (athletics) and Fernando Car (athletics), Kim López (launch weight), Mireia Belmonte (swimming) and Sergio Ibáñez (judo), who have participated in the last tokyo Games.

Inclusive Games will be held on 7 october in the high performance centre (CAR) in Madrid of the CSD. Athletes compete through regulations that have been approved by the Sanniti Foundation studies Inclusive Sport, in collaboration with the various sports federations.

Throughout the day may be followed live television channels, TVE - Teledeporte and another, in addition Telemadrid via streaming in MarcaTV and https :// juegosinclusivos.sanitas.es/