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TEPIC, Nayarit, Mexico, July 12, 2022.- Ana
Gabriela Guevara, Director of the National
Commission for Physical Culture and Sports,
CONADE supports the NORCECA Final Six Men's Pan
American Cup being held in Tepic, Nayarit.
Ana Guevara, former high-performance athlete,
who won the silver medal at the 2004 Athens
Olympics in the 400-meter dash and World
Champion in athletics, is in Tepic supporting
volleyball.
"With this event, the road to the Pan American
Games in Santiago 2023 and later the Olympic
Games in Paris 2024, begins, in addition to
international tournaments in which we are
seeking to provide volleyball with the best
preparation within our reach," said Guevara.
She highlighted that the men's team, qualified
for the Volleyball World Championship needs the
best preparation available; It helps the team to
be at home facing highly competitive national
teams.
"That is why I am here, supporting our team, it
is not easy to play this competition against
high-level opponents, but that’s how sports
work: you have to compete, you have to be there,
you have to play and enjoy" she said.
Guevara thanked the government of Nayarit for
their enthusiasm and interest in supporting and
promoting volleyball and that she is sure to
bring more international championships.
Everything comes from the illusion of helping
Mexico’s volleyball and beach volleyball teams
grow, a new generation of athletes that thanks
to ideas and desires with the approach of the
President of the Mexican Federation Jesús
Perales Navarro has become possible.
“At the Tokyo Olympics I was able to meet with
FIVB President Ary Graça and it created this
interest to support volleyball which had a great
response with the recent World Tour events
hosted by Mexico in previous occasions” she
added.
Guevara explained that Mexico has a large public
and is very well involved in beach volleyball,
which is why it accepted the challenge of
hosting the Beach Volleyball World Championship
next year, "we bet on the scheme of innovating
as we did this year to celebrate an event in one
of the smallest cities in Mexico (Tlaxcala), in
a bullring and that was a great success, so we
want to give the World Championship the same
effort that beach volleyball deserves”. |
