MADRID, 9 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish women’s kayak team will prepare at the Galician Center for Sports Technification the Olympic cycle that will take until Paris 2024, following an agreement that will be signed this Wednesday from 12.30 pm at the Verducido David Cal Canoeing Center, located in the Pontillón de Castro reservoir (Pontevedra).
The Spanish Canoeing Federation (RFEP) with the General Secretariat of Sports of the Xunta de Galicia and the Federation of said Autonomy will sign this ‘transfer’ to host the national women’s kayak team, which will be led by the Olympic medalist in Tokyo, Teresa Portela, RFEP reported.
Present at the event will be Pedro Barrios, president of the RFEP; José Ramón Lete, general secretary of Sports of the Xunta; and Fredi Bea, president of the Galician Federation, representing the parties involved in a collaboration agreement that has led to the transfer from the REAR in Seville to the Galician Center for Sports Technification (CGTD).
Since last November 1, the international paddlers Sara Ouzande, Laia Pelachs, Begoña Lazkano, Miriam Vega, Mireia Vázquez and Carolina García have been training under the orders of Daniel Brage.
“The new working group, which will have the figure of Teresa Portela as the visible head, will carry out a long-term preparation in the facilities run by Jesús López and María Jesús Lorenzo and in the aforementioned Verducido reservoir with the ultimate objective of the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 “, adds the RFEP.
In addition, “two young Galician promises, Lara Feijoo and Irene Lata, will also be part of the elite group led by Daniel Brage, although neither of them is part of the three-way agreement, which includes accommodation and meals for the six international paddlers. “, indicates the Spanish Federation.
This will be the second time in history that the women’s kayak team prepares an Olympic cycle in Pontevedra. The previous occasion was the one corresponding to the Beijing Games, in 2008. That experience was precisely the last in which Teresa Portela prepared as a group for the Olympic tournament.
The new work scenario created in the CGTD will allow Teresa Portela, silver in Tokyo and with six Games on her back, “to explore various possibilities at a competitive level with a view to the French event, given that the test in which she obtained her first metal Olympic in Japan, the K1 200, was removed from the new program. “