Aníbal Fernández, president of the Argentine Hockey Confederation: “The Lionesses and the Lions worked hard to achieve this result.”

Aníbal Fernández, president of the Argentine Hockey Confederation, stated that both Las Leonas and Los Leones worked to achieve their results following significant performances at the Hockey World Cup held in Belgium and the Netherlands. Notably, the Argentine women's team, Las Leonas, broke a 16-year drought to be crowned world champions.

Simultaneously, in separate athletic developments unrelated to hockey, the Dominican Republic's women's volleyball team, the Reinas del Caribe, concluded a competition at the Palacio del Voleibol without securing an immediate Olympic berth for the Los Ángeles 2028 Games following a stumble in the Norceca tournament. The team aims to utilize the World Championship and world rankings as alternative paths to qualification.