Unfortunately, nothing possitive can be said about the
participation of Ecuador in the Olympics. No medal was won and
the only sportsmen who had a good participation, Alex Quiñonez,
achieved it although the extreme negligence of the Ecuadorian
Sports Ministery and of the Ecuadorian Olympic commitee.
Corruption takes places, and although millions of USD are
directed to sports institutions, evil thieves gather the money
for their own personal benefit. It is an insult for all those
talents who get wasted due to the lack of support. We could have
much better results if our sportsmen would have coaches,
nutricionists, etc. But instead they struggle with a miserable
budget to afford the high costs of elite level competition.
It was really shameful to see how a Ecuadorian sportswomen was
almost dequalified due to the bad state of her uniform meanwhile
we all now the big amounts of money that the institutions
suppossed to finance them receive.
Olympic games should bring pride to the people, make us feel glad
about our country and entertain us, but in the case of
Ecuadorians we should all feel anger for the total lack of
committement and of patriotism that people in charge of sports
have.
London 2012 was a clear proof of this problem that has enormous dimensions, and was slightly camouflaged by the triumphs of Jeferson Perez, but now that his career is over, there are no exceptions to the rule and almost all of our athlets were disqualified on very early stages.
Carlos Miranda