José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), said Tuesday that the road to Paris 2024 Games “It’s not just a physical challenge, but a collective challenge” for Spanish sport and he assured that they will face the end of the Olympic and Paralympic cycle with “great enthusiasm.”
The Secretary of State for Sports, in an event organized at the CSD to highlight the program of ‘Team Spain’ facing them Olympic and Paralympic Gamesemphasized that Spanish athletes bring “a relevant message to the world because of the desire to improve and the example they show.”
“The road to Paris is not only a physical challenge, but a collective challenge, a common goal and a national project. The government expresses its support for sport by promoting this program because we are facing the last phase of the cycle with great enthusiasm . Olympic and Paralympic,” he said.
Uribes emphasized that the ‘Team Spain’ program is “a work of the times, growing and adapting to the idea of sport as a right included in the Law.”
“It has a qualitative dimension that complements other aid. Sport is an industry that creates wealth and jobs and we are involved in everything. Furthermore, this project involves comprehensive and individual support .It is a reflection of our society and not an immutable reality “It is a hidden element in social changes,” he said.
“When you see the success of Spanish sport, because I lived abroad for two years, you see it with more pride. It is important to overcome the gaps. We have a challenge in the progressive development of the athlete’s status. The sports are values ”and it inspires me a lot to the things we do. Everything that success means is an example for our lives, but success is also effort,” he noted.
“Sport is an element of social cohesion. It unites us. It gives a very important idea of respect and sharing. ,” he concluded.
In another order of things, Uribes presented the presidents of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Alejandro Blancofrom the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), Miguel Carballedaand the Spanish sports federations are the priority lines of their mandate.
Among them, according to the organization, Uribes mentioned the development of a new regulation Sports Law including, among others, the Royal Decree on Compulsory Sports Insurance and the Athlete Statute, the National Strategy against Sedentary Lifestyle, the promotion of equality and inclusion and the continuous improvement of high performance.
Other priorities are the promotion of sport as the backbone of the territory, support for the sports industry, the promotion of grassroots, school and university sports and the promotion of sport as a sign of Spain’s identity in the world, the same sources added.
The Secretary of State underlined the “strong commitment of the Spanish Government to sport” and thanked the federations and the Olympic and Paralympic committees for their work as a “main pillar” of the sports system.
Source: La Verdad
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