The phone of Mario Cota Peña and Gilda Vera Serrano did not stop ringing yesterday as soon as it was made official that their daughter Gilda Guadalupe Cota Vera captured the silver medal in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
“Look how great God is. And he has blessed this girl with this achievement, with all the complications that this disease gives her every second she lives,” says Don Mario, in his pension house, where he attended to the Diary yesterday after the greatest achievement of any Yucatecan athlete in Olympic history.
Many local athletes with high expectations and sometimes excessive budgets did not even make it to the Olympics.
Gilda, together with the footballer Henry Martín Mex, are the only Yucatecans with medals at these events every four years.
The runner-up’s parents, alone since their other three children are with Gilda in Paris, sat down early in front of the television to watch the Paralympic Games. They prayed, they prayed, They thought about all the sea of contrasts that their daughter has experienced.
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What did you feel when, On June 5, 2020, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosisin the midst of a pandemic.
In how He took it, “as if nothing had happened”and immediately set to work to learn how to cope with convalescence. And also because of the difficult reality of a degenerative disease that weakens the entire organism.
She herself has said that she does not see MS as an enemy, but rather embraced it as her life partner.
“She is a warrior, this girl is a warrior”says Mrs. Gilda, who remembers all the enthusiasm with which her daughter spent the first stages of her life.
“Era cheerful, sportyplayed softball, learned to pitch, He won many medals in shot put. Since she was born she was big, she weighed little, but she was long.
He studied well. I think that in the long run that has allowed him to assimilate what he is experiencing,” he says.
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His father, a former Mexican League pitcher, says: “We are proud of her, of her ability to overcome adversity.to overcome.”
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Gilda Guadalupe, con 34 years old and his Master’s degree in Criminalistics, He devoted himself to sport again, already with the disease upon him, because he received the indication that he should do some activity to collaborate in his favorable reaction to the sclerosis.
Photos of her graduation, as well as those of her brothers, appear hanging on the walls of her home.
And in fact, the disease and its negative development is so cruel, that it is in chemotherapy treatments.
He received one before leaving for Paris and it was on the plane, on the transatlantic trip, that he was able to recover.
They took out photos and photos from their albums and drawers, remembering what it was like and what it is like.
“Times pass, but the essence of life is the sameand she has been a fighter since she was born,” says Don Mario between calls.
“Let them look at their illness”
“Everyone marks us and writes to us to congratulate us. As parents, we are blessed to see him succeed and transcend.“He deserves it,” says Cota Peña.
The ringing of phones continued, while on social media everyone was talking about what the Yucatecan woman had done.
They were all Gilda: politicians, athletes, ordinary people. “Popular person” on Facebook and trending topic on X.
“Let them look at their illness She also wants that. Let’s support her!” said her father.— Gaspar Silveira Malaver
READ: Yucatecan Gilda Cota Vera wins silver medal at Paris 2024 Paralympics.
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2024-09-21 08:40:43
