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Cartagena held a conference inclusive cycling (16/10/2015)

The Cavite Heroes Square has become the scene of ornate j inclusive cycling, which has submitted the final round of the Cup of Spain II Handbike and Tricycles Cycling Suitable for those with discapacida d, the celebration will be at the Throughout this weekend in Cartagena.

The council area of Quality of Life, Francisco Calderon, attended the presentation this morning.

The final round of the II Cup Spain and tricycles of Handbike Adapted Cycling will be held in the port city, so the Repsol Foundation, in collaboration with the City of Cartagena and the Spanish Federation of Sports for Persons with Disabilities (FEDDF) , it has been used to program various activities adapted cycling, aimed at schoolchildren and the general public in order to raise awareness and promote the integration of people with disabilities.

Calderon has congratulated the Repsol Foundation for solidarity action that allows children to verify that a physical disability is not a handicap to overcome adversity, that man is able to overcome anything.

Cartagena is offered as host venue of such tests in the future, he concluded the councilor.

The presentation was also attended by the deputy director of Institutional Programs Repsol Foundation, William Gartland, who said that the Repsol Foundation is the ultimate expression of the social responsibility of the Repsol Group.

We encourage integration because it fosters equity.

We actively engage through sport, culture, training and education.

Rafael Flores, head of the FEDDF, thanked the City Council and Repso l their collaboration in the awareness day Foundation.

The goal is that when you see another guy in a wheelchair, they see face to face.

On the other hand, the general director of the Foundation FUCICAM Felix Rubio, commented on this sport specialty that brings great value to children.

Rubio referred to the designed circuits ramps, slopes, cornering, a representation of what professional face to teach children the values ​​of effort and improvement.

Finally, the president of the Commission of the Spanish Adapted Cycling Cycling Federation, Jose Grin, defined as the best prologue to the competition are these activities, promoting adapted sports.

The scenario here in Cartagena is a luxury.

We thank the City Council for the welcome.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

In addition to the final test of the Spain Cup II Handbike and tricycles, Cartagena is hosting this weekend a series of parallel activities aimed at raising awareness and promoting the full integration of people with disabilities.

Friday, citizens can approach adapted cycling, participating in any of the four scheduled activities s simulators, slalim, sprint and time trial or mountain ciurcuito installed near the Town Hall.

Activities will be open to the public, free of charge, during office hours from 16.30 to 20.00. Earlier, during the morning, more than 200 students from different schools of Cartagena have participated in these actions of inclusive sport.

Moreover, this Saturday 17, from 17 hours bike ride, which brings people with different disabilities will be held.

The march will leave the Heroes Square Cavite and tour the Paseo Alfonso XII, with a distance of 1.5 kilometers.

In the afternoon, after the march and the same route will begin final testing of Spain Cup handbike and tricycles which end on Sunday with the road events.

The handbike is adaptable for both people with quadriplegia and paraplegia, there are different types, from walk to the handbike race.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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