Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday was meeting with nearly three dozen athletes from the nation’s Olympic delegation in the capital, Brasilia. Brazil won 20 medals in the Paris Olympic games: three gold, seven silver and 10 bronze.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva celebrates with the first lady Rosangela da Silva and athletes from the Brazilian delegation who participated in the Paris Olympic Games, during a meeting at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia , Brazil, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024.
“I’m going to mark today as a new era in the practice of sport in this country. I want to help this country be a country that bets big on kids who dedicate themselves to practicing sport,” Lula said. He added that the assembled athletes stand as examples to millions of Brazilian boys and girls and, at one point, called on two skateboarders to perform kickflips on the presidential palace’s marble floor., wasn’t present at Monday’s ceremony. The 25-year-old, a friend and a competitor of U.S. superstar Simone Biles, in Paris became Brazil’s most-decorated Olympian of all time, with six medals.
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