Official: Catalonia offers proposal to COE to host Winter Olympics alone

After the work carried out for so many years, after having the support of the business, economic, social and sports fabric of Catalonia and the technicians of International Olympic Committee (IOC) give the OK to all sports facilities that need to host winter and ice sports Catalonia in his technical visits, the Government of the Generalitat considering it a mistake to destroy all these values, all this work is done. As such, this Thursday it confirmed its willingness to host some Winter Olympic Games alone, without accompanying any partner, after sa Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) had no choice but to withdraw the joint Catalan-Aragonese candidacy after the inflexible attitude of Government of Aragon considering that the technical agreement, approved by all the parties involved at the time, was unfair and despised the Aragonese.

MD It was reported on July 19 that this week the Government will hold a press conference to inform the desire to present a single project to the COE and this day has come, as announced in a press conference of Minister of the Presidency Laura Vilagrà and the Director of the Technical Office of the Olympic Bid for the Winter Games, Mònica Boschafter meeting with Olympic project territory list.

At this point, Laura Villagra highlighted in the press conference that the proposal for the only Catalan candidacy has been sent to the COE, “a candidacy that wants to be from the bottom up, sustainable, where we are looking for a new paradigm of the Olympic Games, where the changes need to be made and what we will present is where these tests can happen, said the Minister of the Presidency at first. He then highlighted that “we have spoken with the territory and with those responsible for the facilities and we have already delivered to the mayors and sent the single candidacy proposal to the COE. A public, technical and clear proposal” and made it clear that “we feel ready to present a Catalan candidacy. We have sent it to the COE. We are clear that is a project for the country, the Pyrenees and Barcelonawhich is dominated by the city where the most important brand in Catalonia and a Pyrenees that wants to present itself to the world and a large territory that wants to continue the Olympic project. We want to show that we are ready and we think that only Catalonia can have a strong and ready Olympic candidacy”.

THE CONSULTATION HAS BEEN STOPPED

When asked how the question to the public if they saw well the holding of the Games and where it was paralyzed when the joint candidacy with Aragon was withdrawn, Laura Vilagrà answered that “at the moment it is still paralyzed. . This is a proposal and there is no proposal on the month for the consultation. As long as we do not have validation from the IOC for them to say that there is a Catalan candidacy, we will not do this consultation in the territory”

A proposal presented under the name of ‘Pirineus-Barcelona Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Candidacy Project’which still seeks to be considered for the 2030 edition, and shows two major changes at the level of sports: the transfer of cross-country skiing and biathlon to Pla de Beret, to the Aran Valleywhere an international achievement test like marsha beretand the giant parallel snowboard that will travel through the station Espot, in Pallars Sobirà.