COE chairman directly blames Lambán for the failure of the 2030 Olympic bid
The day after the COE definitively ruled out Spain’s candidacy for the 2030 Winter Olympics, with venues in Catalonia and Aragon, the chairman of the Spanish Olympic committee, Alejandro Blanco, this Wednesday sternly indicted the president of the government of Aragon, Javier. . Lambán, whom he blames for the failure of the project. “The problem” was Lambán, he stated without half measures in Rac-1. “No doubt things have been done wrong in Aragon,” he repeated. Blanco praised the work of the Catalan side, both in relation to the government, as the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, or the deputy mayor of the Barcelona City Council, Jaume Collboni.
“The work of Aragonès and Vilagrà has been spectacular,” he noted, also highlighting that of the Central Government and that of the Minister of Culture, Miquel Iceta. “We cannot say that everyone is good and everyone is bad,” he claimed. According to Blanco, the three parties have signed a technical agreement setting out a division of the sites of 42 for Catalonia and 54 for Aragon. “The problem is that the president of Aragon, who for whatever reason breaks this technical agreement and does not respect it, and from there takes the approach of the candidacy to the political field,” he concluded.
The COE leader has been airing at his leisure against the socialist leader of Aragon. In yesterday’s announcement, in which he ended the project, he blamed it and pointed out that the candidacy could not go ahead due to the disagreement between the political representatives of Aragon and Catalonia. “Everyone has to take responsibility. We have fought for understanding, respect and dialogue, but if there is no such basis, we cannot continue and this is the decision,” Blanco said.
The president of the COE sent a letter to the IOC on 15 July 2021 presenting a “possible joint candidacy” of Catalonia and Aragon for the celebration of the Games in the Pyrenees, supported by the presidents of Spain, Catalonia and Aragon.
The government yesterday accused Lambán’s “anti-Catalanism” of the failure of the Games and accused the government of allowing them. Aragon’s government, meanwhile, blamed Catalonia’s “intransigence” for a joint candidacy. Both Catalonia and Aragon are already preparing solo projects for 2034.
Source: La Verdad
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