MEXICO CITY (appro).- The tension was present this Thursday afternoon in the pool of the El Polvorín sports center in San Salvador, during the final of the artistic swimming technical team at the Central American Games
Being an appreciation sport, the judges awarded first place to Colombia, with a rating of 205.8954 above the 203.0925 of Mexico, which initially announced that it would protest the result.
At the end of the competition, the national team coaches, Adriana Loftus and Ofelia Pedrero, accompanied by María José Alcalá, president of the Mexican Olympic Committee (COM), and Verónica Pavón, member of the Stabilizing Committee at the head of the Mexican Swimming Federation ( FMF), met with the judges to learn the details of the decision.
In the end, it was decided not to appeal the decision
“We asked for an explanation, that they tell us the points where they said the supposed error was so that we could analyze it and make a determination. The decision is not to appeal, we have to always build and win as Mexico has always done with forcefulness and elegance.
“The artistic swimming girls, with all due respect, are superior technically and in degree of difficulty, these three markings that have 0.5 less left us are baffled, we respect the other team and we are in time to correct the mistakes and participate in the Pan American Games,” he said. María José Alcalá to the reporters who were at the scene.
Due to the controversy of the result and the bad weather that was present in San Salvador with a thunderstorm, the award ceremony could not take place. However, the results will no longer change and Mexico will keep the silver medal, Colombia the gold and third place goes to Aruba.
