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The Minister of Sports, Pauline Kantor signed today an agreement with other personalities to work and promote the " Guga Law ", which will provide coverage and guarantees to all Chilean athletes who represent our country abroad, in case of accident or illness
All this following the case of Gustavo "Guga" Ortiz [19659004] that year The past has displaced the whole country, after the National Downhill Cycling Champion suffered a crash on August 12, 2017 on the eve of a competition in Canada.
Following this, the outstanding national athlete broke the vertebra 8 of the spine, damaged her spinal cord and remaining without mobility in the lower part of her body .
Therefore, this day "Guga" accompanied the minister, as Francisca Crovetto chairman teeth of the Committee of Athletes of the COCH, and deputies Francisco Undurraga and Pablo Prieto .
" This is an important step, as a starting point, so that we, as a government, through the Ministry of Sports, can generate support for all athletes who represent our country "explained the secretary of state.
" With the signing of this initiative, we will continue to work for them and for them, because it will give security to those who are an example for future generations ", added the head of the Sports .
For his part, Gustavo Ortiz stated that " is I am proud to represent and be a kind of ambbadador of this law. The idea is to help this project to come out as quickly as possible and that all the athletes can feel protected when they have to defend the colors of Chile abroad.I think it's a big step and I I am sure that many athletes will be happy . "
Kantor hopes to have transversal support for the initiative to finally see the light of day in Congress, after gathering the needs of athletes through Crovetto and Gustavo's own experience
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