Like the good athletes who don’t hand over underneath any circumstance. Neither the warmth wave nor the discover from the State Meteorological Agency resulting from excessive temperatures in Córdoba have prevented 1,000 athletes from assembly at this time within the Cordoba city of Añora to take part in a brand new version of its Rural Olympics in Los Pedroches.
A complete of 48 groups made up of 20 individuals from completely different components of Spain and past our borders compete this weekend in ‘sports activities disciplines’ such because the leash, the garrote, the cucaña or the sack race.
In complete, there are virtually 1,000 individuals, near 100 volunteers and 48 groups from completely different components of Spain who will compete till this Sunday in 16 occasions, an occasion that has been held since 2008 and which, as defined by the mayor of Añora, Bartolomé Madrid, was born with the purpose of “recovering the standard video games that our grandparents performed in order that younger individuals might get to know them”.
Crossing borders
But the Rural Olympics of Los Pedroches haven’t solely managed to satisfy the target with which they have been created, it’s that they’ve additionally transcended it as a result of this occasion already crosses borders. Proof of that is that this 12 months among the many 48 taking part groups, the presence of 1 from Le Mee Sur Seine, a French city close to Paris that can host the Olympic Games subsequent 12 months and whose captain and is the mayor of this municipality, stands out.
And not solely the French presence stands out, but in addition that of a crew from Jerez de la Frontera with two Olympic members resembling Mercedes Chilla, who performed the video games in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 within the javelin modality, or Begoña García, additionally current on the Greek appointment with the Spanish basketball crew with which he achieved an Olympic diploma, in keeping with EFE.
From the age of 16 and with no age restrict, the individuals compete throughout this Saturday in occasions such because the mizos competitors, a sort of rural bowling, sack races. There can also be no lack of conventional video games such because the ribbons, the rope, the wheelbarrow or the queen’s chair.
Dynamization of the agricultural world
With 100 volunteers who make an effort throughout lately in order that nothing goes improper, this occasion is, within the opinion of the mayor of Añora, “an instance of revitalization of the agricultural atmosphere and the proof is that many municipalities name us to learn the way we arrange this occasion”.
And it’s that the Rural Olympics of Los Pedroches don’t have anything to envy to an Olympic Games as a result of the opening ceremony is just not even lacking, which passed off this Friday with the help of greater than 4,000 individuals and with the standard parade of groups.
All this underneath the motto expressed by the organizers: “Leave the Play now and are available play”, interesting to the youngest to get better the road as a conventional area for play and to interact in bodily exercise. A problem that’s overcome yearly in Añora just like the athletes break data within the nice Olympic occasions.
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