MADRID, 23 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Iberia airline company presented this Wednesday the Iberia Talent Team on board, made up of 12 athletes, including the climber Alberto Ginés, the gymnast Ray Zapata, the taekwondo athlete Adriana Cerezo or the swimmer Sarai Gascón, to maintain their “commitment to talent” and “assist in their preparation” for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The complete list of this Iberia Talent on Board Team is made up of six men and six women: Silvia Mas (Sailing), Irene Sánchez Escribano (Athletics), Paula Ruiz Bravo (Open Water Swimming), Antia Jacome (Canoeing), Adriana Cerezo (Taekwondo ), Sarai Gascón (Adapted Swimming), Alberto Ginés (Climbing), Ray Zapata (Artistic Gymnastics), Niko Shera (Judo), Diego García (Athletics), Hugo González (Swimming) and Gerard Descarrega (Adapted Athletics).
Thus, Iberia will support them by awarding a scholarship during the Olympics and all of them will be able to benefit from the advantages of the Iberia Plus Gold card when traveling with the Spanish company.
During the presentation of the team, the president of Iberia, Javier Sánchez-Prieto, was “proud and happy to launch this project”. “It is an honor for us to help you in the preparation for the 2024 Games. Tokyo left us with a very good taste in our mouths. It is not all about the medals, but also the people,” he said as a welcome to the athletes.
“It is a commitment to the conviction that there are certain values that we share with talent and sport. The effort, commitment, perseverance, the pride of representing Spain, that also touches us. This support, being humble, we have to do in continuity, throughout the preparation phase,” he explained.
Sánchez-Prieto insisted that the entire team conveys “enthusiasm and a desire to excel.” “We want you to fly very high in your disciplines. It is a commitment to talent, we already do it in many other disciplines. We have supported more than 100 initiatives, it is a project that we love. We want to give visibility to less massive sports, with less repercussion , to generate a talent that is diverse in gender, origin and capabilities,” he concluded.
In 2019, Iberia created the first Iberia Team, which was made up of seven Olympic and four Paralympic athletes: Fátima Gálvez (Gold in Tokyo 2020 in shooting), Sandra Sánchez (Gold in karate), Teresa Portela (Silver in canoeing), and the Paralympic Eva Moral (Bronze in triathlon in the last Games), Sarai Gascón (Silver and Bronze in swimming). Completing the team were Lydia Valentín (weightlifting), Niko Shera (judo), Maria López (hockey), Silvia Mas (sailing), Loida Zabala (adapted weightlifting) and María Delgado (adapted swimming).