MADRID, 12 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Queen Letizia has chaired the ‘5th Conference on informative treatment of disability in the media’ organized by the Fundación A la Par and the Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain (FAPE), in which athletes such as the athlete Sara Andrés or the swimmer Teresa Perales, winner of 27 medals in six Paralympic Games.
The day began with sports training at the Vallehermoso stadium that was attended by Paralympic athletes Sara Andrés, Eduardo Uceda, Dionibel Rodríguez and Deliber Rodríguez, who ran several races together with seven athletes from the Fundación A la Par.
Later, the journalists Julián Redondo and Alberto Gozalo presented the report ‘Paralympic sports and the media’, in which the history of the sports movement for people with disabilities was broken down from the first international competitions in 1948 to the present day and how it has its treatment in the media has evolved.
The first informative round table was attended by journalists from Marca Almudena Rivera and TVE Lourdes García Campos, who talked about the role of the media together with Luis Leardy, director of Communication and External Relations of the Spanish Paralympic Committee (COE ), who called for greater equality in the coverage and treatment of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The second round table, dedicated to athletes, was moderated by the double Olympic medalist in athletics Ruth Beitia, who was speaking with the Paralympic athletes Deliber Rodríguez and Sara Andrés and the swimmer Teresa Perales, winner of the 2021 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, who They also verified the evolution in the treatment of Paralympic sport in recent years, although they demanded new steps forward from those responsible for the media.