Flamengo's Olympic athletes have been engaging in a facility exchange at the club. Through activities that sometimes deviate from the norm for a given sport, gyms, dojos, and swimming pools are regularly "borrowed," fostering integration among the various sports practiced at Gávea, fostering knowledge exchange among athletes, coaches, and professionals involved in the day-to-day operations of each sport.

"Within our philosophy, the Olympic Sports department understands that we should and can help each other, because we are Team Flamengo. From this perspective, whenever one sport requests help from another, we try to facilitate the request. Artistic swimming, for example, has been asking judo for three years to use the dojo for the technical-physical training we do out of the water, the so-called 'zala.' These are series of exercises that aim to improve our athletes' flexibility and strength," said Roberta Perillier, artistic sports manager at Mais Querido.

"Judo, on the other hand, requested the use of the artistic gymnastics gymnasium for physical training at the beginning of the season, which was also duly granted. I see that, in addition to helping with training, it fosters greater integration, rapport, and knowledge exchange between the athletes and Flamengo professionals, which ultimately forms a great and unified team," he concluded.


The artistic swimming teams of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo rely on resources from their sponsors – Banco Bonsucesso, Furnas, Estácio, LafargeHolcim/Cimento Mauá, EY – via the Federal Incentive Law/Ministry of Sports (IR), in addition to support from the Brazilian Confederation of Clubs (CBC) resulting from the decentralization of resources originating from the Pelé Law.