Colau makes support for the Winter Games subject to sustainability and the Pyrenees endorsement

The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau made the support of Barcelona subject to the technical candidacy of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) for the organization of the 2030 Winter Olympics in the Pyrenees to be sustainable, have the necessary consensus and obtain the endorsement of the citizens of the affected territories in the consultation scheduled for July 24.

Following the COE’s announcement that it is now making a technical bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics as a result of project disagreements between the governments of Catalonia and Aragon, Colau said in an interview with Catalunya Ràdio that he was “nothing to say” but an Olympic project requires “agreements, not battles”.

Ada Colau insisted she was still “skeptical” about the project and she understood her party’s criticism of the candidacy, but as mayor of Barcelona needs to know the final proposal of the project and “listen to the Pyrenees because this is the affected territory” to decide whether the city supports it and, among other things, the name of Barcelona is included in the name of the candidacy.

The mayor insisted that at a Winter Olympics in the Catalan capital “they won’t make any sense because he doesn’t have the conditions” and even, “It’s a tasteless proposition” in the face of climate change.

For Colau, the Winter Olympics candidacy is “a project located in the Pyrenees”, where Barcelona is “willing to use capital and organization but it must first be maintained, have everything agreed upon and do the consultation”.

Regarding the effects of the destruction of the joint candidacy of Catalonia-Aragon, Colau pointed out that it could mean that the new project includes the construction of new infrastructure that the Catalan Pyrenees probably do not want.