The separation between politics and sport is very difficult. The dividing line here is very blurred, but when politics fully enters the sport, it usually doesn’t go well. And when it broke, less. The Government and the Spanish Olympic Committee have decided to withdraw from the candidacy for the 2030 Winter Games, due to the inaction of the president of the Community of Aragon, Javier Lamban.
The technical committee consisting of representatives of all those involved approved a program for the distribution of disciplines with the approval of Aragón, but not of Lambán, who killed him when he was presented and used the confrontation in Catalonia for the Games to add votes to his next elections. But a broad sector of the Aragonese territory is in favor of conducting the Olympic event. When people are more in the interest of citizens, something is wrong. And the candidacy collapsed.
Catalonia is infallible and Alexander White, also president of the COE. The approved distribution brought alpine skiing to Catalonia and Nordic skiing, biathlon and skating to Aragón. Barcelona was left alone with ice hockey, initially small for brand power. In the first cast there were 12 more trials in Aragon than in Catalonia and a follow-up audience was certainly higher than in the disciplines of the Aragonese Pyrenees and Zaragoza. But the name of the candidacy was not even discussed. The division of the alpine by gender between Aragon and Catalonia is unreasonable. The Govern withdrew the last meeting in some trial so that it could be carried out in Aragon, but Lambán he chose to face territories rather than negotiate. Bad strategy. Aragonese stations rejoiced at the Games. On many other occasions, the Aragonese Pyrenees requested the Winter Games, but did not achieve the goal. It was very close, but it was marred by political partisanship and anti-Catalanism misunderstanding. Now we need to redirect JJ.OO. with a proposal for 2034 with Catalonia, regrets that a personal attitude has hindered the vocation of combining two territories willing to live together without problems in a common project.
Lambán, of the PSOE, was not convinced by his own party to reach a consensus that would benefit Catalonia, Aragon and Spain. It would be worth insisting on the Winter Games, as the Madrid-Barcelona summer candidacy, which was postulated at one point, seems to have no majority’s approval so far. Good ideas must overcome personalism and the Pyrenees deserve to have high -level Olympic Games.
Source: La Verdad
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