The candidacy for the 2030 Winter Games is shipwrecked due to the political war

The joint bid for the 2030 Winter Games has foundered.

Understood as a bridge project between Catalonia and Spain, specifically Aragon, after the wounds left by the 'procés', and as an opportunity to promote the territories of the Pyrenees, it had the express support of

.

However,

, president of Aragón, of his own party, to sign the technical distribution of the project have made it impossible.

The last of the meetings in search of an agreement, the eleventh, left the project sentenced.

The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) expresses its desire to still be able to present a feasible candidacy, but time is running out and political wars make it a utopia compared to solvent cities, such as Sapporo or Vancouver.

Alexander White

He is the one who has led the project, because the only guarantee is that the leadership falls on the COE.

Now, he feels that all his work, which has included meetings with businessmen, mayors and battles for quotas on both sides, has succumbed to political opportunism.

He believed that the most difficult pulses would be in Catalonia, given the opposition of part of the independence movement to sharing a project with Spain, but he did not imagine that the failure would end up in Aragon, precisely for the same reason, although in the opposite direction.

He managed to get the president of the COE to reach an agreement on the technical distribution of the competitions, but Lambán finally considered that it was not fair, especially due to the concentration of alpine skiing in Catalonia.

The position of the president of Aragon, of the PSOE, was joined by the mayor of Zaragoza,

(PP), who demanded fairness, even in name, with Barcelona.

The COE has been summoned to present an alternative, next Wednesday, with the support of the Government, according to a statement.

But the options are scarce, because for the organism the "Spanishness" of the project is inalienable, and that is difficult if it is only Catalonia that puts the territory.

Lambán had also said that Aragón could present a unique candidacy, but it lacks the international brand that Barcelona provided, in addition to having already fallen, without passing the cut, with the Jaca project in the past.

Unity was the only possibility, and it had not been frowned upon in Lausanne.

Blanco knows that going to the IOC after a war between institutions, like the one staged regarding the candidacy, is a sure failure.

Spanish sport therefore loses a game that politics does not win.

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