🇵🇾 paraguay touches the sky in asunción! julio mirena wins a world bronze worth gold

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Julio Mirena Ortiz of Paraguay won the bronze medal in the senior men's 15,000-meter elimination race at the World Skate Games Asunción 2026. The medal was earned in front of a home crowd, on Paraguayan soil, at what the source describes as the most important stage in international speed skating. The source states that Mirena's performance came against some of the sport's major world powers and became one of the most emotional images of the day. It adds that some medals are won with the legs but felt with the heart, and places this one in that category.