The Spanish walker made history in Paris 2024 by adding gold in the mixed relay to those she already won in the European and World Championships in 2018 and 2023.
MADRID, 8 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The walker María Pérez, Olympic champion and runner-up in the mixed relay and 35 kilometers this past summer at the Paris 2024 Games, and Dr. José María Silberberg, director of the Vithas High Performance Sports Medicine Center, will star this Monday ( 10:00 am) the Europa Press Sports Breakfasts.
In an event that will be held, with the collaboration of Joma, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, Mondo and Vithas, at the Meeting Place Auditorium at Paseo de la Castellana, 81, in Madrid, María Pérez will share the success achieved in the Paris Games , where he completed the ‘Triple Crown’ after adding the Olympic gold to the titles achieved in the European and World Championships in 2018 and, with a double in 20 and 35 kilometers, 2023.
For his part, José María Silberberg will analyze the causes of the plague of injuries that are devastating professional athletes, and how athletes’ treatment and recovery techniques have evolved. The doctor will also refer to the importance of prevention in health and what type of services are offered by a leading Sports Medicine Center such as Vithas, the official medical service of Atlético de Madrid and competitions such as the Solheim Cup held in 2023 in Spain.
This forum is the fifth and last of the sixteenth season of the ‘Sports Breakfasts’, which was inaugurated by the president of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Alejandro Blanco, last July to analyze the prospects of the national Olympians before the Games of Paris 2024. Blanco was followed by the presidents of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes; the newly elected member of the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), Alberto Durán; and the president of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB), Elisa Aguilar.
In previous courses, the main protagonists of national and international sports have paraded through the ‘Sports Breakfasts’ as secretaries of state for Sports, such as Jaime Lissavetzky, Albert Soler, María José Rienda, the first woman in the position, José Ramón Lete , Miguel Cardenal, Irene Lozano, José Manuel Franco and Víctor Francos.
Also directors of clubs, sports organizations and entities and athletes and former athletes from multiple disciplines such as the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas; the president of League F, Beatriz Álvarez; the now former president of the RFEF Luis Rubiales, that of the AFE, David Aganzo, that of the ACB, Antonio Martín, and Jorge Garbajosa, then president of the FEB and now of FIBA Europe.
Likewise, the president of the Board of Directors of Real Valladolid, Ronaldo Nazario; that of Atlético de Madrid, Enrique Cerezo, and the now president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, the former Real Madrid coach Ramón Calderón, the former national soccer coach Vicente del Bosque and the former coach of Liverpool and Real Madrid Rafa Benítez. Also, the general director of La Vuelta, Javier Guillén, and the manager of the Movistar Team, Eusebio Unzué.
This sports agora was occupied by presidents of national federations, the then president of the Sportsmen’s Association (AD) Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, the Olympic champions Lydia Valentín and Carolina Marín; the drivers Marc Márquez, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo, Maverick Viñales, Álex Crivillé, and the ’12+1′ times world champion Ángel Nieto; Marc Coma and Stephane Peterhansel, ‘Monsieur Dakar’, and the CEO of Dorna Sports, Carmelo Ezpeleta.
To celebrate Repsol’s 50th anniversary in the motor world, Carlos Sainz, four-time winner of the Dakar and two-time world rally champion, attended; Toni Bou, 36-time trial world champion; and Jorge Martínez Aspar, quadruple world champion in motorcycling.
The swimmers Rafa Muñoz, Aschwin Wildeboer and Mireia Belmonte, the ‘syncro’ players Ona Carbonell and Raquel Corral, the golfers Miguel Ángel Jiménez and Marta Figueras-Dotti, and the then women’s soccer coach Jorge Vilda with the internationals Alexia Putellas, were also present. double Ballon d’Or, Patri Guijarro and Irene Paredes.
The general director of MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR), Pedro Campos, the skipper of the Spanish challenge, Joan Vila, considered the best navigator in the world; and the world champion selectors José Vicente ‘Pepu’ Hernández, Paco Antequera and Javier Lozano, president of the National Futsal League (LNFS).
The former cyclists Miguel Induráin, five-time Tour champion, participated; Alberto Contador, double winner of the Giro and Tour and three-time champion of La Vuelta; Pedro Delgado, winner of the Tour and two Vueltas; Alejandro Valverde, former world road champion; and the best Spanish athlete and basketball player of all time, Fermín Cacho and Amaya Valdemoro.
The former mayor of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, and the former CEOs of the Madrid 2016 and Madrid 2020 Olympic bids, Mercedes Coghen and Víctor Sánchez, analyzed the project options for the capital of Spain to host the second Games in the country.
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE: IOC, NBA AND JJOO
Representatives of international organizations were also at the ‘breakfasts’ such as the vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Spanish Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs; IOC member Marisol Casado; the former London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Ambassador, Lord Sebastian Coe, current president of World Athletics, former IAAF; the former Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Spain Giles Paxman; the former General Director of the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) Knut Frostad, and the former Deputy General Director of ASO Yann Le Moenner.
Likewise, the Extraordinary Secretary of Security for Major Events of Brazil, Andrei Augusto Passos, the CEO of the America’s Cup in Barcelona, Grant Dalton, the former Executive Director of the Euroleague, Jordi Bertomeu, the former Ambassador of France in Spain Yves Saint- Geours, and the NBA vice president for EMEA, Jesús Bueno, appear on the list of speakers.