President Santos gave a pavilion to the Colombian delegation to the Central American Games

The President of the Republic, Juan Manuel Santos, delivered Monday afternoon the national flag to the Colombian delegation who will participate in the Central America and Caribbean games that will be held in Barranquilla between July 19th and August 3rd.

"We have done the best Bolivarian Games in the history of Santa Marta, what we want, is that it is also the best Games of Central America and the Caribbean of the Every time a Colombian has this prerogative to win a competition, all Colombians take advantage of it (…), the joy they bring to the Colombians is immense (…), thank you for the effort that everyone has made so that Colombia is today a sports power, "Santos said.

The first president thanked the athletes for filling the country with enthusiasm and handed the national flag to the Bogota athlete, Eider Arévalo, representing the 589 Colombian athletes who will participate in these games.

"I am happy and proud to carry the flag of my country, I know we will leave everything to represent it in height.We are very well prepared and we can dream to improve our position in the table of medals, "said Arévalo, world champion of the march.

In this sense, hosting the Central American and Caribbean Sports Games represents a double challenge for the country, which on the one hand is responsible for the sport. organization of a fair that is part of the Olympic cycle, as it was the case last year with the Bolivarians of Santa Marta, and on the other hand, continue to consolidate as a sports power in the region.

Thus, the Colombian delegation seeks to badert itself as a power and to overcome what was done at the 2014 Veracruz Games, where it reached the third place with 70 medals. gold, 75 silver and 78 bronze, for a total of 223 m For this edition, the projections aim to get the second place, at least, in which it will be a fight with Cuba and Mexico, the leaders of the region.

Three days before the start of the game, the tricolor already accompanies these athletes who, as usual, will put everything to raise the highest symbol of the country, distinguishing themselves in sports such as shooting at the Bow, athletics, basketball, handball, bowling, boxing, boating, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, gymnastics, golf, judo, karate, weightlifting, wrestling, swimming, skating, pentathlon, water polo, racquetball, rowing, rugby, softball, squash, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, sports shooting, triathlon, volleyball and beach volleyball.

The President also highlighted the progress that sport has had during his government and took the opportunity to highlight how close the country is to the goal of adding 3 387 medals, including 3,359 medals have already been achieved, which has invited the 325 men and 264 women who will compete in the representation of Colombia in these games to overcome this goal.