Aragon’s proposal for the 2030 Pyrenees Winter Olympics

Ang Aragonese President Javier Lambán announced this week, last Thursday, he will explain proposal of the Government of Aragon to greet the 2030 Pyrenees Winter Olympicsunderstanding that the distribution established by the technical agreement reached by all parties involved, including the Aragonese party, did not meet their expectations, understanding that priority was given to Catalonia sa Aragon.

For this purpose, the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports of the Government of Aragon, Felipe Faci, traveled this Thursday to Madrid to deliver to the president of Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Alexander White, the Winter Olympic proposal of the Government of Aragon. As reported by the Twitter account of Government of Aragon, “Faci asserted that this is a fair and balanced measure, which contributes to the development of the territory, as claimed at every meeting held by the technical group. All Pyrenean valleys are represented in the proposal made by the Government of Aragon in the COE. Aragon and Catalonia share alpine and cross-country skiing equally ”.

After the announcement of the technical agreement, as explained by the MD, the distribution of sports between Aragon and Catalonia was established that ice hockey will be played in Palau Sant Jordi and in another space, which may be ehe is new Palau Blaugrana if it is completed on time, while curling and figure skating and speed skating will be held in Zaragoza and Jaca. For snow sports, the Aragonese Pyrenees will host the biathlon Candanchu -they have the only sports stadium for this sport in Spain- and cross-country skiing, while alpine skiing will take place in La Molina-Masellasnowboarding and freestyle in Baqueira Beret and mountain skiing Boí Taulla station that recently hosted European Championship. A distribution disliked by the Aragonese Government, which requested to also host ice hockey, alpine skiing and snowboarding.

The new Aragonese proposal suggests that the ideal is to distribute alpine and cross-country skiing in both territories, that freestyle and mountain skiing will be played in Catalan snow, that snowboarding and biathlon will be held in Aragon, meanwhile. is about. in ice-related disciplines, Aragón will host “curling”, figure skating and short track speed skating events, while long track and ice hockey will be held in Catalonia.

Today, it remains to be seen the study done by the COE of this new proposal, leaving the opening and closing ceremonies in the pipeline, as well as the last name of the Olympic candidacy.