Asunción, IP Agency.- Víctor Díaz, tennis player from the Paraguayan delegation, won the gold medal at home in the Special Olympics Latin American Games, leaving an example of improvement and perseverance.
Víctor already knows the experience of wearing the colors of Paraguay in international events since he was a World Cup swimming athlete at the Special Olympics Summer Games in Northern Ireland in 2003, then he moved on to tennis at the World Cup held in Los Angeles – California , United States, 2015.
His mother, Aurora, highlighted her son’s work when he started his swimming competitions. delves into the joy of watching your child do different sports. «In 2003 he traveled, with Professor Julio Delgado, to Northern Ireland where he was able to compete and brought back a silver medal in swimming. We also traveled to Curitiba for the first swimming world championship for people with Down syndrome. Afterwards, Víctor had less and less time to train in that sport and so we opted to do tennis,” he told the National Sports Secretariat.
After many years competing for Paraguay in international events, Asunción 2024 gave Víctor the opportunity to represent the country before his own people and with his family supporting him from the stands. The athlete performed well and climbed to the top of the podium to win the Latin American Gold Medal, filling the country with pride.
Víctor shows us that with effort and passion, there are no barriers that are impossible to overcome. His victory is also a triumph for all those who believe in the transformative power of sport, taking advantage of its positive force to make it a tool for social inclusion.
The various scenarios that welcome the competitions of the IV Latin American Games of Special Olympics Asunción 2024 show, day after day, the efforts of athletes who compete with the main objective of surpassing themselves, and on that path, reaching the continental podium. On the tennis courts, the figure of Víctor Díaz emerges.
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