He team chile Canoe slalom is going through a delicate moment in Brazil. Even more so their head coach, Cassio PetriOf course from samba country.
It is revealed that a group of national representatives had gone to the Rio Grande do Sul region to train and compete. However, heavy rains and floods fundamentally changed the situation.
Currently, Chilean athletes are practically stranded, unable to return and flights have been cancelled. As if this was not enough, Coach Petri from the town of Tres Corros lost his home due to the climate-related reasons already mentioned.
This has been confirmed Radio Bio Bio de Valdivia Selected florence aguirreWho has become one of the greatest national players in the discipline at his young age (18).
“The truth is that we were here with the canoe slalom team, training and almost living. Two of our friends live here, our national team coach is from the town of Tres Corrosas, and Due to the rain, the river rose considerably and both their houses were flooded. “They lost everything.”He expressed.
“So these days we have dedicated ourselves to helping them clean the house. We are just into that now,” he said.
Aguirre also said that the nearest airport (Porto Alegre) has been closed until May 30. So the only thing left for them is to wait, or go to the nearest state, about 10 hours away (with road closures). “They are charging us a lot, 300 thousand pesos per person to take us,” he lamented.
“Fortunately we are all fine… here you can see bodies floating”
Florenia yells to the team for help. They want to return to the country as soon as possible to continue their daily routine.
“The efforts we have now are boating federation, But the answers are not very concrete yet. They’re going to see if they can do a project to help us financially, but it looks like they’re just looking at it, there’s nothing concrete,” he said.
Finally, for the peace of mind of their families, the native of Rio Bueno explained that “fortunately no one from the team was hurt, nor the people whose houses were flooded. They were on the roof of the house all night Unless they can save them.”
“Luckily nothing happened to the people in the team. Here he has seen people blooming and dead on the banks of the river, because the situation is like this here. Luckily, nothing happened to any of us,” he concluded.