translated from Spanish: The calendar of Chileans in the Paralympics that begin today

Today is the official release of a new version of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, and the Chilean delegation will attend with the largest number of athletes in its history. There are 19 competitors who will fight for a gold medal in these new Games. Last week the first athletes began to arrive at the Olympic Village in the hope of imitating what the runner Cristián Valenzuela achieved in London 2012, who took the gold. Today at 07:00 hours began the opening ceremony in Tokyo, and in the evening is the debut of the first nationals with Alberto Abarza in swimming in the 100 meters backstroke S2 at 20:43 and Luis Flores in the group stage of table tennis at 22:00.Abarza is also the standard bearer with Francisca Mardones. The swimmer, who will compete in his second Paralympic Games, was excited about the competition.” There is nothing bigger for an athlete than to represent his country at a Games, to represent his people, to be the standard-bearer, to represent my teammates. He has a tremendous emotional load,” he told the Telethon. “We want to be in the top three or four in the world at these Games. We set expectations higher than in Rio, because a lot of work has been done,” he added. To get to Tokyo, the 36-year-old had to fight strict quarantines to train. “It affected us not knowing if we were going to get back to the level we had. For a day that you stop swimming, it’s three days lost. It was very complicated, we thought we didn’t get there. We gave a lot of advantage because as a country we completely shut everything down, while others never did. But I think we were able to get back on a par with our rivals, even with the pandemic,” he said. Chileans in tokyoMañana in the early morning, table tennis follows the action with Cristian Gonzalez, Cristian Dettoni, Tamara Leonelli and Luis Flores as participants. Vicente Almonacid will also make his swimming debut.Para on Thursday, archery, with Mariana Zúñiga, will play his cards together with Francisca Mardones and Cristian Valenzuela in athletics. Wheelchair tennis will also have protagonists that day with Macarena Cabrillana in singles and doubles, Alexander Cataldo with Jaime Sepúlveda. In powerlifting, Juan Carlos Garrido will also participate that day for the national delegation. On Friday, table tennis will remain in qualifying, as will wheelchair tennis and swimming, but will join in athletics Amanda Cerna and Camila Campos in weightlifting. On Saturday, in case of qualifying, the semi-finals of table tennis and the final in the 200 meters combined swimming with Vicente Almonacid will be played, in addition to the final of the 400 meters in athletics with Amanda Cerna and the debut of Margarita Faúndez in the heat of the 1,500.On Sunday, María Antonieta Ruiz will star in the weightlifting and Alberto Abarza the final of 200 meters freestyle in swimming. In addition, wheelchair tennis and participation in the athletics of Faúndez and Valenzuela will be played in the heat of 1,500 meters. Francisca Mardones will do the same in the bullet final. On Monday, August 30, Marion Serrano will participate in the weightlifting and table tennis finals will be played in singles and teams. Already on the first day of September, Katherinne Wollermann will make her debut in canoeing along with the final stages of wheelchair tennis, swimming and athletics, so that on September 5 the closing ceremony will be held.

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