The desperate request of Felipe Del Mestre, of Los Pumas 7s, after having suffered the theft of his Olympic medal

Felipe Del Mestre, a member of the Los Pumas 7 squad who finished third at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, made a desperate request on his social networks on Tuesday to recover the bronze medal what did he get in that tournament and what was robbed as part of a robbery of his home from the city of Adrogué, in the southern suburbs of Buenos Aires.

“I have inexplicable painI ask you to spread the word so that it appears, “posted the winger who emerged from the Pucará club in an Instagram story.

It was a very important tournament for the Los Pumas, and not just for its seven-handed version. Is that on the way to third place, they defeated powers like Great Britain, Australia and South Africa, and also presented a fight to other big teams like New Zealand and Fiji, the two finalists.

In that context, Del Mestre was one of the main exponents of the group led by Santiago Gómez Cora, who contributed the first of the three medals that the Argentine delegation obtained in Tokyo 2020 (the others were silver for Las Leonas and bronze for the men’s volleyball team).

The 28-year-old also participated in another historic milestone for that sport this year, after finishing a 13-year title-less drought on the World Tour and becoming champion with the Los Pumas of Seven de Vancouver, beating Fiji in the final. 29 -10.

However, all those achievements were surely left in the background when he discovered that in the robbery of his home, located in the Almirante Brown neighborhood, criminals took, among other things, his Olympic medal.

Sofía Maccari, another victim of insecurity

Sofía Maccari was robbed in Escobar in September 2021 and suffered the theft of her most precious possession: the silver medal which he scored with the Argentine hockey team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The athlete first shot his anger on Twitter and Instagram, with a desperate plea for help. “Today I was robbed by two armed men in Escobar. They stole my car, my cell phone and the most painful thing: THE OLYMPIC MEDAL”, wrote Maccari.

“I went to distribute some things that I had to deliver to Escobar and I was standing in a street, seeing if it was the address, and One side and two armed men got into my car. I was with a companion “, detailed in the dialogue with Clarione.

And he continued: “They grabbed us to get out. My partner didn’t want to get off and became more tense. I wanted to get off quickly because I wanted to leave, I got very scared. We pulled on each other and I managed to get my partner out. , I asked them to calm down and They left with the car and cell phones, I don’t care“.

Later, he explained why he wore the silver medal: “After I was about to show the medal to a friend, which helped me a lot in the Olympic process, so I promised him that I would take him with me. That’s why I had it in my wallet. “

Maccari, who was a substitute in the team then led by Carlos Retegui, had obtained the silver medal by taking second place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. After beating India 2-1 in the semifinals, he lost in the final to Holland.

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