Brazil in Paris 2024

[Guilga]

Those meddling Italian swimmers and sprinters... Tommorow is the day. Hopefully. We kinda forgot to be clutching in some moments at this games, huh?

[Guilga]

We did it. WE DID IT! É TOP CINCOOOOOO!!

After a miracle turnaround at the powerlifting with Tayana Ribeiros and an solid gold and silver at the canoe by Fernando Rufino and Igor Alex Tofalini, Brasil secured top 5 at the medal table! We made it! We made it! AAAAAAAAAH I'M SO HAPPY!

[yoshi]

Yay - I was wondering how Brazil was getting on when you suddenly fell off the top section a few days ago

[Guilga]

26 minutes ago, yoshi said:

Yay - I was wondering how Brazil was getting on when you suddenly fell off the top section a few days ago

Well, it was Ça Ira, to bookend these 2024 games brightly. We had some setbacks, more notably at the team sports; Goalball and Blind Football all lost at the semis, the latter in a heart-wrecking penalty shootout, oh my god! AND IT WAS AGAINST ARGENTINA OF ALL PEOPLE! But, we made up for it by proving our might at Swimming and Athletics, even if some events didn't go as expected, most of it was memorable medals.

We had that top 5 performance on our targets for quite a while, if i recall; finnaly getting it after a wild fortnight, especially with Italy, France, Ukraine and Netherlands getting close and overtaking us for a while was insane, Netherlands themselves winded up at forth actually. At the final days, or nemesis were the Italians and literally our best day ever at the Paras yesterday was necessary to cover some days without golds, even if they still got that 100m at the end of the day. Then, a miracle out of nowhere, the chinese miss her WR attempt, and our Taynara succeed hers final regular one to go to the powerlift and sinpe that gold, alongside the expected Rufino's gold at the Canoe, and we just needed a miss from the Italians at the women's KL3...and we got it, thanks to your country! Thanks a lot!!

Medals every days do fell nice, isn't it?

[Olympian2004]

Congratulations, @Guilga - the investment of Brazil into its Paralympic sports truly paid off, and I am glad to see that even eight years after the unforgettable Rio 2016 Games, your athletes are still bringing in the harvest of that investment! We Germans will definitely take a leaf out of your book, hoping that 2036 or 2040 will be our time as Olympic and Paralympic host.

 

[Guilga]

2 minutes ago, Olympian2004 said:

Congratulations, @Guilga - the investment of Brazil into its Paralympic sports truly paid off, and I am glad to see that even eight years after the unforgettable Rio 2016 Games, your athletes are still bringing in the harvest of that investment! We Germans will definitely take a leaf out of your book, hoping that 2036 or 2040 will be our time as Olympic and Paralympic host.

 

May you do! A tip that i can give, we have our national lottery as an big sponsor of the movement, a percentage of the money raised, if i recall, it's given to the Brazillian Paralympic Commitee. Also, if you doesn't have one already, an athlete "scholarship" program, this is giving them money to focus on the sport, with bonuses for competition results can really help the less fortunate sports at the program. If i recall, every single one of our medals come from athletes from the "Bolsa Atleta" program, if not the overwhelming most of them. Those two really help out our Paralympic movement, alongside having an actually well adjusted national commitee. The difference between our Olympic and Paralympic hauls can also be felt on the organization of both, with the sport federations included. But, good luck to you all too!

[Olympian2004]

12 minutes ago, Guilga said:

May you do! A tip that i can give, we have our national lottery as an big sponsor of the movement, a percentage of the money raised, if i recall, it's given to the Brazillian Paralympic Commitee. Also, if you doesn't have one already, an athlete "scholarship" program, this is giving them money to focus on the sport, with bonuses for competition results can really help the less fortunate sports at the program. If i recall, every single one of our medals come from athletes from the "Bolsa Atleta" program, if not the overwhelming most of them. Those two really help out our Paralympic movement, alongside having an actually well adjusted national commitee. The difference between our Olympic and Paralympic hauls can also be felt on the organization of both, with the sport federations included. But, good luck to you all too!

Thank you very much, also for the valuable advice! Germany sure has a lot to do to catch up with other countries (like Brazil), your sponsoring and training model sure sounds convincing!