The Spanish Olympic Committee appointed the sailor Tamara Echegoyen and the canoeist Marcus Cooper as commonplace bearers of the Spanish delegation within the Opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.
Echegoyen was Olympic champion in Elliot 6m in London 2012 and completed fourth within the 49er FX in Río 2016 y Tokio 2020At this final occasion he competed for the primary time alongside Paula Barceló, who may also be his accomplice in Paris 2024.
For his half, Marcus Cooper is a double Olympic medalist in dash canoeing, one of many disciplines that has introduced probably the most pleasure to Spanish sport in latest editions of the Olympic Video games.
The Mallorcan paddler was the K1 1000 m Olympic champion in Rio 2016, and a silver medalist in Tokyo 2020 as a part of the K4 500 m together with Saul Craviotto, Carlos Arevalo y Rodrigo Germade.
Cooper will succeed as commonplace bearer exactly his accomplice Craviotto, who three years in the past shared that position with Mireia Belmonte. An honor that was nonetheless exhausting to think about earlier than it turned official.
“It is exhausting for me to think about celebrating such satisfaction, such honor. Carrying probably the most stunning flag on this planet, one of the best nation, the nation that I’ve represented since I began within the sport… Ugh! Oysters! I feel I’ve to reside it” , he confessed to Olympics.com throughout the presentation of the tools of the Spanish delegation.
An expertise which you can take pleasure in on July 26, the date of the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.