La preparación y dificultades de los deportistas discapacitados en Ecuador

Athletes with disabilities in their preparation and competitions do not receive adequate support from the government, either because their discipline does not exist or appears as a federated sport in the country, they do not know how the procedures are applied so that they can be beneficiaries or simply their age It no longer favors them. Thanks to the creation of the Paralympic Committee in 2013, several people have received financial support, but it is a very small number of athletes compared to the number of people with disabilities in the country. These entities receive direct economic support from the state, there are also non profit foundations that help athletes and people with disabilities. Unfortunately, the provincial federations are the entities in charge of seeing the performance of each athlete and in this way, thanks to their skills, they can enter the Paralympic Committee so that they are beneficiaries. If there are no achievements or sports records, they will not be able to access support and financial aid. Sports schools are a door for children and young promises to practice sports and can go far thanks to daily physical activity. On the other hand, the National Games are also an aid for athletes to enter the High Performance Plan or be beneficiaries of the Paralympic Committee. Finally, in the sports field there are High Performance Centers, where athletes spend 24/7 concentrates and can only go out on weekends, these are athletes with or without disabilities who have greater medal opportunities. People with disabilities who do not wish to opt for a life dedicated to competitive sports, have the option of performing recreational activities in the places available by the Ministry of Sports called Ecuador exercise, thanks to these people with mostly physical disabilities, are those that help their bodies do not deteriorate quickly. Similarly, the Ministry of Social Inclusion of the Metropolitan District of Quito has several spaces for the recreation and inclusion of people with disabilities, unfortunately these spaces are not known by the vast majority of people from Quito because of their lack of social ignorance and it is believed that there are no spaces for inclusion in the capital.