A group of representatives of various sports led a demonstration in front of Quinta de Olivos to demand for authorization to be able to resume the activity under the approved health protocols. Under the slogan “The Sport of Bonaerense needs to work”, athletes and teachers of tennis, golf, athletics, artistic gymnastics, paddle, skate, canoeing and nautical demonstrated peacefully on Avenida Libertador, where they cut several lanes of circulation.
The claim of the various sports comes after the First Division football teams (in addition to Tigre, who play in the First National and are ranked to the Copa Libertadores) got the authorization to return to training on Monday, August 10.” Whatever happens, since Monday I plan to go out to train every day like football, I will not allow my sport to be extinguished, if they allow footballers because also the rest of the Olympic sports that we have the same right,” said Ariel Suárez, a rower of the national team and one of the athletes who participated in the demonstration.
For its part, tennis has been calling for the return of the activity for several weeks, arguing that among players, teachers, cancheros, stringers, sports houses and workers dedicated to the grinding of brick dust, there are more than 70 thousand families living off the discipline.
During this week, the leaders of the Argentine Association (AAT) met with authorities from the Province of Buenos Aires to advance authorization. “It was a very positive meeting in which we made concrete progress in search of a common goal, which is to revive a highly punished sector such as the tennis industry, without neglecting the health of the Bonaerenses,” said Mariano Zabaleta, vice president of the AAT.
