During the inaugural act of the Alba 2023 Games, with the presence of President Nicolás Maduro and part of his Government cabinet, the 11 delegations that will be part of the competition in the nine days that the event will be held were presented
The Sports Games of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), which are held between April 21 and 29 in Venezuela, opened its fifth edition with a gold medal for the host in road cycling, in addition to conquering the silver and bronze medals.
The organizing committee informed through his Twitter accountthat the Venezuelan Edwin Torres became the first medalist of this edition of the games, by dominating the road cycling test, a time trial, which took place at the Camurí Chico circuit, in Vargas.
Venezuela seizes the first medals ??? in road cycling ?
? Edwin Torres (Venezuela A)
?Anderson Paredes (Venezuela A)
?Yosnehibet Rondón (Venezuela B)Our America! pic.twitter.com/vU3bQTTTA8
– juegosalba2023 (@juegosalba2023) April 21, 2023
Torres reached the gold medal with a time of 26:03 minutes. Anderson Paredes and Yosnehiber Rondón, also from Venezuela, won the silver and bronze medals, with times of 26:41 and 27:02, respectively.
The first competition was held before the opening ceremony this Friday afternoon, where Nicolás Maduro was.
In the ALBA 2023 Games, a total of 3,539 athletes in 33 disciplines will compete in the search for 2,201 medals. Of these, 385 will be gold; the rest of silver and bronze.
During the inaugural act, with the presence of President Nicolás Maduro and part of his government cabinet, the 11 delegations that will be part of the competition in the nine days that the event will be held were presented.
The participating delegations are: Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela, in addition to Russia, which participates as a special guest.
ALBA is an international organization founded in 2004 and promoted mainly by the late President Hugo Chávez, who used his influence in the region to create this instance as a free trade area.
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The changes of government and position towards the Chavista government have led some countries to leave the organization, as Ecuador did in 2018 the position of former president Lenín Moreno against the management of Nicolás Maduro.
The same thing happened temporarily in Bolivia during the brief administration of Jeanine Áñez after the forced resignation of Evo Morales, despite the country’s return to the body with the presidency of Luis Arce.
Another former member of ALBA is Honduras. However, in this case the country was suspended after Manuel Zelaya suffered a coup and the successor government formalized his withdrawal in early 2010.
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