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Alejandro Blanco and Tokyo 2020, protagonists this Thursday in the EP Sports Breakfasts

MADRID, 23 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The president of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Alejandro Blanco, and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which are held from July 23 to August 8 after being postponed for a year by COVID-19, will be the protagonists this Thursday (10 : 00 hours) of the Europa Press Sports Breakfasts, an event that will be held at the El Beatriz Auditorium in Madrid.

Alejandro Blanco will analyze in the Sports Desayunos de EP, sponsored by DAZN, Liberbank, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado and Repsol, the expectations in Tokyo 2020 of the Spanish delegation, which will be led by the swimmer Mireia Belmonte and the paddler Saúl Craviotto, but in those who will not be the tennis player Rafa Nadal or the Olympic badminton champion Carolina Marín.

The event, with a capacity restriction and which will follow all the health recommendations for the coronavirus, will be attended by the General Director of Sports of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), Albert Solert; the Spanish member of the IOC Juan Antonio Samaranch; the president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, and the president of the AFE, David Aganzo, among others.

This forum is the eighth and last in person of the thirteenth season of EP’s ‘Desayunos Deportivos’ after the one starring in the return to the new normal after the state of alarm and confinement decreed by the Government by COVID-19 by the then president of the CSD, Irene Lozano.

Later, the General Director of La Vuelta, Javier Guillén; the president of the Association of Basketball Clubs (ACB), Antonio Martín; the CEO of Dorna Sports, Carmelo Ezpeleta; the president of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB), Jorge Garbajosa; that of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, and the Secretary of State for Sports, José Manuel Franco.

The president of the FEB closed the previous course in December 2019 after a magical year in which the men’s and women’s teams, which are currently contesting the EuroBasket in Valencia, were world and European champions, respectively.

Previously, the president of the COE himself, Alejandro Blanco, spoke of the Tokyo Games before they were postponed until 2021, and the re-elected president of the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) David Aganzo, of the historic Collective Agreement of women’s football, that on June 15 he was declared a professional for the First Division.

In the precedents, the women’s soccer coach, Jorge Vilda, and the internationals Amanda Sampedro, Mariona Caldentey and Silvia Meseguer analyzed their participation before traveling to the World Cup in France. Later, under the title of ‘Motor, with’ M ‘for a woman’, the pilots Ana Carrasco, the first woman world champion in Supersport 300, took part; Sara García, world casualty champion; Tatiana Calderón, the first woman to participate in Formula 2, and Marta García, the only Spanish driver in the WSeries.

The president of the CPE, Miguel Carballeda; swimmer Teresa Perales, the Spanish athlete with the most medals (26) in the Paralympic Games and the recent Princess of Asturias Award for Sports; the athlete Gerard Descarega, Paralympic, World and European champion in 400 meters; and the cyclist Ricardo Ten, world champion in track and route, offered an X-ray of the national Paralympic sport before Tokyo 2020.

Under the title, ‘Repsol, 50 years of support and triumphs in motor sport’, Carlos Sainz, two-time world rally champion and three-time Dakar champion and 2019 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports; Jorge Martínez ‘Aspar’, quadruple motorcycle world champion and named ‘MotoGP Legend’; and Toni Bou, twenty-eight times trial world champion, analyzed the origin and causes that have made Spain a world power in motorcycling and motorsports.

The president of the Royal Spanish Federation of Winter Sports (RFEDI), May Peus; the head of Women and Snow of the RFEDI, Paula Fernández-Ochoa, the rider Regino Hernández, bronze in the 2018 PyeongChang Games, and the Olympic skier Juan del Campo spoke of the legacy of Blanca Fernández-Ochoa.

And the general manager of the Movistar Team, Eusebio Unzué, the ex-cyclists Pedro ‘Perico’ Delgado, Ángel Arroyo and Pablo Lastras and the former road cycling world champion Alejandro Valverde reviewed the 40 years of successes ‘From Reynolds to Movistar’, whose riders they had added 930 victories, and seven Tours, four Giros, four Vueltas a España and four World Championships.

MAIN ACTORS OF NATIONAL SPORTS

In previous campaigns, the main protagonists of national and international sports have paraded through the ‘Sports Breakfasts’, as is the case of managers of clubs, sports organizations and entities and athletes and ex-athletes of multiple disciplines.

Among them, the first president of the CSD, María José Rienda, and her predecessors Jaime Lissavetzky, Albert Soler, José Ramón Lete and Miguel Cardenal; the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, and that of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales.

Likewise, the president of the Board of Directors of Real Valladolid, Ronaldo Nazario de Lima; that of Atlético de Madrid, Enrique Cerezo, and the now president of FC Barcelona, ​​Joan Laporta, and former Real Madrid Ramón Calderón, former national soccer coach Vicente del Bosque and former Liverpool and Real Madrid coach Rafa Benítez.

Presidents of national federations occupied this agora of sport, the then president of the Athletes Association (AD) Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, the Olympic champions Lydia Valentín and Carolina Marín; riders Marc Márquez, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo, Maverick Viñales, Álex Crivillé, and the ’12 +1 ‘times world champion Ángel Nieto; Marc Coma and Stephane Peterhansel, ‘Monsieur Dakar’; the swimmers Rafa Muñoz, Aschwin Wildeboer and Mireia Belmonte, those of ‘synchro’ Ona Carbonell and Raquel Corral, and the golfer Miguel Ángel Jiménez.

Likewise did the General Director of MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR), Pedro Campos, the skipper of the Spanish challenge, Xabi Fernández, and the crew members Támara Echegoyen, the first Spanish in the history of the regatta, and Joan Vila, considered as the best navigator in the world; and the world champion coaches José Vicente ‘Pepu’ Hernández, Paco Antequera and Javier Lozano, current president of the National Futsal League (LNFS).

There was no shortage of ex-cyclists Miguel Indurain, five-time Tour champion; Alberto Contador, double winner of the Giro and Tour and three-time La Vuelta champion; Joaquim ‘Purito’ Rodríguez; and the best Spanish athlete and basketball player of all time, Fermín Cacho and Amaya Valdemoro.

The former mayor of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, and the former CEOs of the Madrid 2016 and Madrid 2020 Olympic candidacies, Mercedes Coghen and Víctor Sánchez, analyzed the options of the project of the capital of Spain to organize the second Olympic Games in the country.

INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE: IOC, NBA AND JJOO

Representatives of international organizations were also at the ‘breakfasts’ such as the then vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Spanish Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs; former London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Ambassador Lord Sebastian Coe, current President of World Athletics, former IAAF; former UK Ambassador to Spain Giles Paxman; former Managing Director of the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) Knut Frostad, and former Managing Director of ASO Yann Le Moenner.

In addition, the Extraordinary Secretary of Security for Major Events of Brazil, Andrei Augusto Passos, the Executive Director of the Euroleague, Jordi Bertomeu, the Ambassador of France in Spain, Yves Saint-Geours, and the vice president of NBA for Europe, Middle East and Africa, the Spanish Jesús Bueno, are on the list of participants.

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