• Olympic Games 2030 Aragon technicians gave their approval almost without debate to the cast of the 2030 Winter Games

The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) has sent an official statement to the Government of Aragon announcing that there will be no joint bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics. This concludes twelve months of negotiations, disagreements and head-on clashes between the Government of Aragon, the Generalitat and the COE to try to reach an agreement to hold the Games in the Pyrenees.

The distribution of tests and venues has been the main obstacle between both autonomies.

The president of the COE,

Alejandro Blanco

, plans to offer a press conference this Tuesday, in which he is expected to explain the reasons why the joint project is finally renounced.

Sources from the Government of Aragon, who quote

El Periódico de Aragón

and

Heraldo de Aragón

, have pointed out that if the joint candidacy has failed, it has been "due to the intransigence of the Generalitat, which has not wanted to negotiate a reasonable and from peer to peer".

According to these sources, despite the official notification, the Aragonese Executive will not make any further assessments in this regard until hearing the words of Alejandro Blanco.

In a piece of information from the Catalan News Agency (ACN) the possibility is raised that the COE is now working on the "hypothesis of a candidacy for 2034 that is not yet defined if it will be shared again between Catalonia and Aragon or if, online with what was proposed by the Generalitat last week, will basically gravitate over the Catalan territory".

"Demand responsibilities"

The mayor of Zaragoza and president of the PP of Aragon,

Jorge Azcón

, described this Monday the COE's decision to rule out a joint candidacy of Catalonia and Aragon for the 2030 Winter Olympics as "bad news" and has assured that it has The time has come to find those responsible.

At a ceremony held in Barcelona, ​​Azcón declared to the media that "if the COE finally announces its resignation from the candidacy, it will be time to demand responsibilities and find out why such an exciting project that was going to financially benefit territories that are usually as disadvantaged as those of the Pyrenees".

He added that the Winter Olympics project could have transformed the Catalan and Aragonese Pyrenees and favor cooperation between two "sister autonomous communities".

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