X Gay Games 2018 Paris is a party!

Paris hosts the X Gay Games for 9 days, the biggest sports festival of diversity

GAYLES.TV.- This summer we have been crushed with more or less pleasure by sports broadcasts of all kinds. The media went crazy with the whirlwind of the World Cup and then, you know, what every year, if the signings, if the "multicolor snake", the Tour, the Turn, the Return ... Let's see if now they echo one of the most important sporting events that in France brings together each 4 years to more than 10.000 participants representing 90 countries.

We are talking about the Gay Games, popularly known as the Gay Olympic Games, the largest sporting, festive and cultural event in the world with a characteristic that makes it unique: they are open to everyone, without prior selection, regardless of age, religion, health status, sport level or even sexual orientation, because more beyond sport and its values, Gay Games has been fighting from 1982 for diversity, respect, equality, solidarity and exchange. That is why the possibility of participating is offered to any interested person, because sport is understood as a means to facilitate union and inclusion and because anyone should be able to offer what they have best in their own way.

Athletes, artists, followers, spectators, volunteers, conference participants or anyone who is interested in this project, everyone matters, everyone plays a role, because in the end we are all important for things to happen.

This year the Gay Games include 36 sports events among which we can find: diving, swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo, badminton, beach volleyball, foot race, boxing, cycling, fencing, field hockey, figure skating, football, golf, handball, martial arts, skating, rowing, tennis , squash, triathlon ... And many others that you can discover in the Gay Games website.

This year the Spanish teams of Madrid Titanes (Rugby), GMadrid Sports (Mutideportivo), Halegatos (Swimming and Jumping), Madpoint (Tennis) and Madminton (Badminton), they are all part of Sport and Diversity Team of the Community of Madrid. It has also participated members of Panthers Grogues and equipment United We Row from Barcelona in the form of Olympic rowing representing Spain. This is the first gay rowing team. For every kilometer done in a regatta, the United Nations Sports Development Foundation receives 5 euros to promote sports in third world countries.

Of course the Gais Olympics They represent a major impact for the French capital in several areas: beyond the enormous impact on sports, culture, social and even tourism, it is the economic impact that is calculated will reach a total of 136 million euros, 58 million directly generated by the event and more than 78 million in travel and tourism related, especially of LGTBI travelers.

In short, if you are lucky enough to find yourself in Paris, you can not miss this fantastic opportunity to participate in the most gay Olympics on the planet.

We are happy to include the good results obtained by our teams in the Gay Games of Paris 2018:

GOLD
Badminton, Category C + Individual (Madminton)
Tennis, Category B Individual (MadPoint)
Tennis, Category B Doubles (MadPoint)

SILVER
Basketball (GMadrid Sports)

Luis Miguel Rodriguez Ortiz Voley (Panthers Grogues)

BRONZE
Badminton, Category A- Individual (Madminton)
Badminton, Category C + Doubles (Madminton)
Tennis, Category D + 60 Individual (MadPoint)

Congratulations to everyone!