Ep. 035: Catalina Ontaneda - Ecuador Minister of Sports
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Catalina Ontaneda the Minister of Sports for Ecuador visits with Travis Parsons about the diverse terrain and ecosystem that makes Ecuador such an amazing place to participate in all kinds of adventure sports. Ecuador's position on the equator allows for consistent weather and daylight throughout the year. Maybe it's time you consider Ecuador for your next adventure sports trip!
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| 0:00.0 | Ecuador is a small country, but it's amazing how in such a small place you can find different types of geography. |
| 0:11.4 | You can summit 60,000 meter peaks and go back in the capital city for dinner. |
| 0:17.6 | From Quito, you are four hours away from the beach, four hours away from the |
| 0:22.8 | Amazon, two hours away from the, Ecuador's Minister of Sports. |
| 0:48.5 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:51.8 | Brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:55.6 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 1:13.3 | Welcome to a very special edition of the Adventure Sports podcast. We have a special guest today. |
| 1:16.0 | She is Catalina Otaneda and she is the Minister of Sports for Ecuador. |
| 1:21.6 | Catalina, welcome. |
| 1:22.8 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:24.6 | So you have a background in adventure sports to an extent. Can you tell our audience a little |
| 1:31.0 | bit about yourself and your connection to adventure sports? Sure. Since I was little, I would go out |
| 1:39.8 | with my family to trails, to do some hiking and a little bit of biking and I never saw that |
| 1:49.3 | as a sport I started doing sports on regular regular sports like soccer or basketball or athletics. |
| 2:03.3 | And then I started, I would always go on trips out to the middle of nowhere in Ecuador with my family or with my friends. |
| 2:14.3 | And I did sports on the side. |
| 2:16.2 | So those were my two big passions, like go out and get |
| 2:20.3 | to know some new place and some new community in the middle of nowhere in Ecuador, and my |
| 2:27.1 | other passion was to do sports. And while I got older and older, I realized that I didn't have |
| 2:34.1 | as much time I did have when I was younger. |
| 2:37.8 | So I started going out on trips and doing sports at the same time. |
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