• "Anti-Catalanism has won" The Government accuses Aragon and the Government of preventing the joint candidacy for the Olympic Games

  • Rupture The COE rules out a candidacy for 2030 only from Catalonia

  • Candidacy The Aragón technicians gave their approval almost without debate to the distribution of the 2030 Winter Games

Spain shoots itself in the foot.

More specifically, Spanish politics shoots in the foot of Spanish sport.

The last Olympic dream, this time for a Winter Games, succumbs to the calculations of the autonomous Taifa kingdom.

Alejandro Blanco

, at the time of communicating the death of the candidacy for the 2030 Winter Games, accused this failure of a "policy that is not adequate".

If Catalonia or Aragon, who shared the project, want to go separately, they will have to wait until 2034.

Blanco referred to the disagreements between the political representatives without pointing to any one above the other, but when he spoke of "lies",

Javier Lambán

, president of Aragón, was in his thoughts.

His degree of understanding has been greater with the representatives of Catalonia, despite the initial discrepancies and the political starting point, with the

procés

in between.

"The COE sent a letter to the IOC for a joint Games between Catalonia and Aragon before the Tokyo Games. They were accompanied by three letters, from the President of the Government,

Pedro Sánchez

; from the President of the Generalitat,

Pere Aragonés

, and from the President of the Community of Aragon,

Javier Lambán

", explained Blanco.

"There was an agreement, but then President Lambán decided to break it. Let each one assume his responsibilities," he added.

"To start working, I proposed a technical commission of 12 people, three from each autonomy, three from the Government and three from the COE. It met six times, the last one on March 22.

In the end, an agreement was reached on the distribution of the headquarters , communicated to each regional government

, "said Blanco, accompanied by the members of the COE Assembly.

In this distribution,

Aragón was left with 54 tests and the participation of 2,138 athletes.

Catalonia, with 42 and 2,520 athletes

.

Lambán, marked

"Lambán sent me -continued the leader- a letter in which he said he disagreed with the distribution that the technical commission had agreed to. The snow proposal, the subject of discussion, was made by the Aragón technicians".

"Instead, when the politicians came in, everything broke down," he added.

Two subsequent meetings, in which Catalonia proposed to pass five tests of 'freestyle' to Cerler in exchange for five of figure skating, or a distribution by lots, were not approved, according to Blanco's explanation.

As a consequence of the lack of agreement, "we canceled two visits by the IOC experts and two meetings with their commission because we did not have a project, it is the reality."

Blanco's organization and the international one, however, agreed in a joint statement to continue working for the future.

However, the options separately for Catalonia or Aragon are very uncertain

.

This failure dooms the immediate future.

Blanco, hurt, lamented how this adventure has ended because of what it meant.

"We didn't have the best possible technical project. We had to move the jumps, for example. But we had pillars. On the one hand, the regeneration of a territory, the Pyrenees. On the other, because

it was a sports project that was a meeting point between Spain, Aragon and Catalonia, where they could sit down to talk and listen to society without political tensions

. That gave this candidacy a lot of strength. It intended to unite. It was not a political project, but one of civil society, businessmen, presidents of SMEs...", he explained, to conclude: "Our image before the IOC has been improvable. I hope we have learned".

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