2024-07-27 03:01:00
From Paris
100 years ago, Argentina’s Olympic history began to be built in this city. This Friday night in Paris, The national delegation was the twelfth country to march on a boat shared with Antigua and Barbuda, Saudi Arabia, Armenia and Aruba. Luciano De Cecco and Rocío Sánchez Moccia were the standard bearersboth will participate in their fourth Olympic Games. The national delegation was reduced because most of the teams are making their debut this Saturday: hockey, both men and women, handball, tennis and volleyball. Only the Gladiators and some athletes who will compete in sailing were the ones who got the spotlight on the route along the Seine. In this edition, with 136 athletes, Argentina brought to Paris the ninth delegation in history in terms of number of athletes.
The Bateaux Mouches (fly boats) and some launches travelled six kilometres from the Austerlitz Bridge to the Trocadero where the athletes left the boats.
Luciano De Cecco will play his fourth consecutive Olympic Games since London 2012The captain and setter of the volleyball team won the bronze medal in Tokyo 2020 and was fifth in the other editions. Before the start of Paris 2024, he declared in several interviews that he will probably retire from the team after the most important multi-sport event.
For her part, the Las Leonas midfielder, Rocío Sánchez Moccia will also be in her fourth event with two silver medals under her belt from London 2012 and Tokyo 2020.The great challenge for the women’s hockey team will be to reach another Olympic final.
Both teams will make their debut this Saturday against the United States, seeking to equal or surpass the achievements obtained in the last edition.