Friday night, just after 9pm. Carlos Spegazzini, motorists traveling on the Ezeiza-Canuelas highway, people from the surrounding areas of San Vicente and Canuelas choosing to have dinner or a movie to watch with family and friends. From above, a plane performs an approach maneuver to land at Minister Pistarini Airport. Pure everyday life.
Suddenly, a roar shakes the Carlos Spegazzini Industrial Park.. There are several explosions, but they all stand out, especially the first one. The surprise, noise, and shock wave left many people living several kilometers away with their homes broken. At the time, four of the world’s best polo players, who are also family members, attended their final team meeting in Canuelas. nativity la dolphinawill finalize match details this Saturday at 4:30 p.m. Argentina Open Championship of this sport. In the most important polo tournament in the world, we will play against Los Machitos on Court 1 in Palermo.
They are Adolfo Cambiasso, his son Poroto, and brothers Camilo Castagnola and Bartolomé Castagnola (h.), all 10 handicappers. The group was formed for this season by merging two major organizations located across the street from each other in Canuelas. Only 1.5 km from the highway. And they are doing very well. He won the two tournaments prior to Palermo, the Hurlingham Open and the Tortugas Open, and is undefeated in eight matches, and a win at the Argentina Open would give him the Triple Crown.
A team meeting is typically held the day before the match. They talk about the rivals on duty, the condition of the horses, how to approach the match, what is appropriate and what is not, what details to look out for, and the order of the horse list. With this arrangement, you will often even swap horses. “This will work better. Try it tomorrow.” Everything was normal until I heard a roar…
The windows shook and everything was a surprise. They looked at each other, feeling the logical uncertainty of not knowing what had happened. And technically they didn’t know about it until the first media reports came out.
“It was unbelievable how everything moved.”the initial reaction Friday night was, Adolfito CambiasoThe 50-year-old became a legend in the world polo world with 18 wins at the Palermo Open. At the time, the La Nativida La Dolfina star admitted that he had no idea what was going on from a short distance away. Yes, after a few hours he realized: “It smelled strange.”
By morning, the smell and smoke had disappeared. A general inspection of the stable was carried out to check on the horses and no problems were found. “You can see that the wind moved everything to the other side, but it didn’t really affect this area of Canuelas,” Cambiaso explained.
He immediately relived the few seconds of the explosion, which occurred at the Alejandro Petion exit of the Ezeiza-Canuelas highway, at the 55 km mark, for reference, about 13.5 km from La Dolfina and La Natividad. “The whole window moved, so we kind of screwed up. At one point I thought the plane had crashed.. We are close to the Ezeiza area so we associate it with that. I said, “A plane crashed. There’s no way another plane will crash.” After that, things inside the factory started to be featured in the news. Then there was another explosion, but nothing like the first. “That was amazing.”
My brother-in-law said the same thing, bartolomé castagnolafather of mug and barton the first morning, I was watching the logistics of the trucks transporting the horses to Palermo. This is usually to use the expressway. “Last night there was a barbaric explosion. We were all inside. There’s a bit of smoke, but everything is fine and the horses are fine. Considering how to get to Palermo, you will have to choose a different route, but nothing more. ”
Another night spent in Canuelas with renewed determination for the Palermo Open. And that first feeling is relived in each story.
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