Rocio Berbel Alt He has been a member of the Argentine speed skating team for more than a decade and, at just 32, has extensive international experience. But the South American Games in Asuncion had a special flavor for her. Because she managed to get on the podium twice: she won the silver medal in the 10,000-point trial plus elimination and the bronze in the 10,000-point trial. And because these are her first Mom Games.

In December 2020, Berbel e Giovanni Cruz Araldi, also a skater for the Argentine national team, received Emma. And although the Buenos Aires native has stated that coordinating her sports career with motherhood is not an easy job, she has assured that it is a job she does with great pleasure.

“The truth is that they are special games, the first with Emma. And it’s costing me a little morenot only for missing but because it costs me a little more to prepare, but it’s always a pleasure and I leave everything I have, and that doesn’t change “, he said in a chat with TyC Sport after closing its stake in the Paraguayan capital.

Berbel joined the national team in 2012. With the Argentine shirt he played, for example, the South American Games in Santiago de Chile 2014 and of Cochabamba 2018, in which he won a gold in the 1,000 meters sprint and a bronze in the 10,000 route points. He also participated in the Pan-American Toronto 2015 Y Lime 2019in which he arrived at a great moment, but suffered a fall that prevented him from fighting for the podium (he was 5th in the 10 thousand meters).

At the end of 2020, after a year without competitions due to the pandemic, she was a mother. “During pregnancy I was skating a bit, always very carefully, of course, I was doing some cycling at home, I exercised … The pandemic just got me so in principle we couldn’t even go out much, which helped me, but I’ve never been silent, “she said.

And he added: “The truth is that it is not easy to be a mother and a high performance athlete, it requires a lot of organization, too much effort. And above all desire and passion. But I’m having fun, because that’s what I choose to do and what I like, so I can’t complain. ”

In Asunción, where she was also fifth in the 1,000 meters, she once again took the South American podium.

In the test of 10,000 points plus elimination she finished second with 16 points, behind the Colombian Fabiana Arias Perez, another skater mother, who added 29. The bronze went to Gabriela Rueda, also Colombian, with 10.

In the 10 thousand meters in points, Argentina also shared the podium with two athletes from the land of coffee. She was third behind Rueda, who won gold, and Luz Garzón Arboleda, who won silver. And she dedicated that and her other medal to Emma.

“To my beautiful little princess, which is my greatest motivation, my joy and my desire to keep fighting. You can’t imagine how much I miss you“, wrote on Instagram the skater and mother, who fed the harvest of the Albiceleste mission on wheels.

The first gold of rowing

At Club Mbiguá in Asunción Bay, Argentina added its seventh gold medal at the South American Games. Sonia Bauzzo Y Evelyn Silvestro They won the final of the light double pair test of the boating. The blue and white duo won with a time of 7: 10.62, ahead of the Uruguayan Tatiana Seijas and Nicole Yarzon (silver with 7: 13.34) and the Chilean Josefa Vila and Isidora Niemeyer (bronze with 7: 13.78).

Peter Dickson Y Alessandro Colmino they hung silver in the men’s lightweight double pair, finishing behind the Uruguayans Felipe Kluver and Bruno Cetraro with a time of 6m27s36.

santiago deandrea, Emiliano Calderon, Axel Hack Y Agostino Scena They also added a silver in four pairs of short oars, after a score of 5m55s23 and behind Uruguayans Marcos Sarraute, Leandro Salvagno, Felipe Klüver and Bruno Cetraro.

While, Ignazio Pacheco, Franco Calvo, Gioele Romero Y Lautaro Barrios they were bronze in the four long oars without helmsman.

Argentine rowing accumulates one gold, four silvers and two bronzes.

Argentina, fourth in the medal table

The national delegation, meanwhile, already has seven gold medals. In addition to the one won by Baluzzo and Silvestro, there are four in swimming and the one won on Monday evening. Tommaso Masiain the men’s free trial figure skatingin which Donato Mastroiano it was bronze.

In that same trial, but from the female branch, Martina Della Chiesa got a silver one.

Furthermore, at the end of the day on Tuesday, the harvest of I swimthe most successful sport of the national delegation, so far, with the silver of Ivan Strelkov in the 50 meters butterfly and in the 4×100 mixed female relay and bronze in the 4×100 mixed male relay.

In the swimming pool of the National Aquatic Center, Argentine swimmers won 11 medals, four gold, four silver and six bronze.

Argentina, with 7-14-17, is fourth in the medal table, behind Brazil, Colombia and Chile.

They will debut this Tuesday The lionesswhich will clash at 7 pm with Paraguay, in a tournament that will be played in a single group, where everyone will play against everyone.

The men’s soccer team lost 1 to 0 to Chile for the first date of group B. The beach soccer team will face Peru, starting at 18:00 in its third presentation. And there will be Argentines in the competitions who will hand out swimming, fencing, weightlifting and triathlon medals.