Barranquilla 2018: The "rescue" of disciplines in Central America could be defined tomorrow: Carlos Padilla

Mexico City –

Once the Mexican Olympic Committee announced the conversation with Sports Organization of Central America and the Caribbean it would be tomorrow when these skills, 22 eliminated, who were rescued at the request of the Mexican authorities to reduce the limit of registration of the participating countries from four to five, as announced Carlos Padilla, president of COM.

"I understand that this afternoon we will meet to define, as I said, that we have priority in athletics competitions, it will be tomorrow when we will announce what has been accomplished. "

It should be noted that the COM must perform all athletes' travel because the first part of the Mexican delegation will travel on July 16 so tomorrow is the date However, Padilla Becerra pointed out that after the situation of Barranquilla 2018 the creation of statutes was analyzed to punish the countries that caused the Cancellation of the disciplines This will seek to avoid similar decisions for the next edition of the Central Americans in Panama.

"Unfortunately this is not established (a sanction), but surely we will put something in that it n Does not arrive in Panama at the next Games Given this situation, there is no doubt that the growth of some sports areas in Central America is still limited, that is why the Mexican director has insisted on his work to find options that help these countries develop their athletes. in various disciplines for enrich the competition in the Central American and Caribbean Games.

"It is true, it has not progressed to stimulate enough sport and it is a subject that I have come to rely on the resources of being able to develop sports that are natural for this type of athletes in their stereotype that they have, "he explained.

Finally, before the election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as President of Mexico on July 1 and with him the beginning of a new presidential term, Carlos Padilla hopes to be able to & dquo; Establish a cordial relationship with Esteban Moctezuma who will be the next holder of the Ministry of Public Education and thus express the needs of sport at the national level before the limited budget who was under the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto.

"We are going to see what the results tell us, I still believe that everything can be optimized.What we are going to look for, in the context of an imminent meeting that I have with the Transition team, it is more important tax incentives that will allow the private initiative to release resources to better prepare our athletes. "