07/23/2021 11:27 AM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 07/23/2021 11:39 AM
A bronze medal in Beijing 2008 and a gold medal in Rio de Janeiro 2016. A dream that is still alive in these Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 that have just begun.
And a huge recognition: Argentina's Paula Pareto was chosen along with five other athletes to enter the Olympic flag at the Tokyo National Stadium representing America.
Seconds after the president of the Organizing Committee Seiko Hashimoto inaugurated the Games, the Olympic flag entered the stadium with Little Pareto as one of the carriers.
The other privileged ones were Japanese badminton player Kento Momota, Australian fencer Elena Galiabovitch, refugee team weightlifter Cyrille Tchatchet II, Moroccan triathlete Mehdi Essadiq and Italian athlete Paola Egonu.
They were then relieved by six members of Japan's health staff in recognition, a constant throughout the opening party, for those who fought the coronavirus pandemic from the front lines.
THE LITTLE GIANT!
Pareto and a historical fact: he carried the Olympic flag at the opening of the Games.
THAT PRIDE!
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Later, the doctors and nurses were relieved by members of the organizing country's security forces, who were in charge of raising the Olympic flag alongside that of Japan.
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