El Salvador's Olympic athletes
El Salvador is sending 11 athletes to compete in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing beginning this week. Those athletes are:
You can follow their fortunes during the Beijing games at the website of El Salvador's Olympic Committee or in the special section of El Diario de Hoy.
- Arevalo, Rafael
- Cisneros, Franklin
- Colindres, Veronica
- Contreras, Mario
- Dimas, Eva
- Garcia, Evelyn
- Maida, Luisa
- Marcus, Golda
- Medrano, Ingrid
- Mira, Salvador
- Vargas, Camila
You can follow their fortunes during the Beijing games at the website of El Salvador's Olympic Committee or in the special section of El Diario de Hoy.
Comments
1-They have trained abroad mostly.
2-Some of these athletes are only salvadoran in order to go to the olympics, because they do not even live in El Salvador.
3-They are mostly a sort of olympic tourist with a pass to the competitions, because they know they are not up to olympic athelte standard, and they accept they have no chance of winning. And they accept this happily, because at least they got to go to the games.
4-No medals can be expected.
All of the above leads to questioning, if we bring people who live and train abroad, and they have not been picked up by the scouts from those countries, can we really expect to ever win with one of them?
And I guess it is possible but ulikely.
I think that lack of resources and lack of training has more to do with it thana anything else.
If your genes are so superior, how come you are not in the games?
You might want to get your GED along the way.
Yes, i'm gonna be pretentious here.
For not only am I an amazing athlete but I have NEVER EVER met any el salvadorian who IS NOT an athlete. Ever.
BTW, a few of the El salvadorians are doing not bad. Not great but not bad.
most if not all of the Salvadoran athletes that I know have to train elsewhere in order to have access to resources. if you want medals then the government has to make that a priority. Otherwise people are going to go elsewhere to train. You can't blame the athletes for not getting medals. You have to blame the whole system.
Would you rather have no team than a team made up of great athletes that made the commitment and sacrifice to leave home, find financial support and train for their dream with little or no official support?
And,, like the post above, I think the athletes are doing well.