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| The player fulfilled one of his dreams after giving entrance to the Spanish team in the Maracana stadium |
Rafa Nadal met Friday
one of his biggest dreams : to give input as standard - bearer to the Spanish delegation at
the Maracana stadium. The
player was one of the most outstanding athletes in the inaugural paradeof the delegations at
the opening ceremony of the Games.
Nadal and leads a delegation of 306 national athletes who dream of improving in Rio seventeen medals (which will be eighteen gold Lydia Valentin) obtained four years ago in London. The Spanish team has marched in the sixty-eighth position total of 207 countries were represented in the great celebration of Olympism.
But it was not Nadal the only big star to be champion of his country in Brazil. Leading the powerful American team was the best Olympic athlete record in the history, swimmer Michael Phelps. Between the Spanish team and the US only he paraded Micronesia.
A parade, as is tradition, opened the country cradle of Olympism, Greece.The sailor Sofia Bekatorou was commissioned to give the go -ahead to the emergence of athletes at the stadium.
Luis Scola was also one of the most acclaimed in its entry into the stadium, standard bearer of Argentina carrying a record Brazilian delegation to the meeting. Other stars in charge of carrying the flags of their countries were the athlete Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica, on a team that not paraded Usain Bolt), tennis players Andy Murray (Britain) and Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) , swimmer Federica Pellegrini (Italy), the judoka Teddy Riner (France) or the gymnast Catalina Ponor(Romania).
Brazil closed the parade to meet another tradition, this being the host country. The honor of leading his delegation was for the pentathlete Yane Marques, bronze medalist at the last Games in London.
Although, just before he became one of the most emotional moments: see parading refugee team, led by Rose Lokonyen Nathike athlete.
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