For seventeen months, society has been proposing and Covid has provided. And despite the fact that vaccines had begun to paint the line of the new normal with thick strokes, the Omicron variant is insisting on presiding over a Christmas season that citizens want to be like the old ones, but reality is insisting on deny.
In the sports section, the Segovia City Council, together with the sports clubs and provincial delegations, had planned to hold a score of activities so that Christmas in 2021 would be presided over by sports. However, the increase in the number of cases has led the clubs themselves to have chosen not to hold their activities and championships, waiting for a decrease in the wave of infections to favor the return to collective sports practice.
Thus, on the eve of Christmas Eve the ‘Navibal’ handball party organized by Nava Handball was suspended, which joined the suspension of the Badminton City of Segovia Tournament that was going to be held yesterday in the Agustín pavilion Fernández with the organization of the Innoporc Segovia badminton club.
Looking ahead to the week that starts today, several activities that have had a long journey throughout the history of Segovia Christmas will not be held either. Thus, the Félix Martín El Botas Memorial that was going to have occupied the Agustín Fernández pavilion from December 27 to January 4 will have to wait another year to see its twenty-first edition completed, as the 3 × 3 tournament will have to do. with Futuro Vivo ‘organized by CBS and the NGO Amigos de Futuro Vivo in the María Martín pavilion from the 27th to the 29th of this month.
Navibal, the badminton tournament, the 3 × 3 basketball or the memorials of ‘El Botas’ and Antonio Ibañes will not be held this year
And, finally, the Segosala already announced a few dates ago that the Antonio Ibañes Memorial that has been taking place for several years in the Pedro Delgado pavilion was not going to be held on January 8 either. They are the sequels that the Covid continues to leave in the world of sports.
The XXV San Silvestre Cuellarana will not be held for the second consecutive year on the last day of the year. The Board of Directors of the Cuéllar Athletics Club, taking the current pandemic situation as a reference, has decided to suspend its celebration, after conversations with the Sports Department of the Cuéllar City Council, which has ratified this decision.
The high incidence due to the coronavirus led the club to take a “painful” measure as stated in its press release, but within prudence to safeguard the health of organizers, volunteers and, of course, runners.
On December 31, the silver jubilee of a popular benchmark event in the region was going to be celebrated, and with great roots in the provinces of Segovia and Valladolid, but we will have to wait for the 2022 edition. Meanwhile, the Cuéllar Athletics Club and the City Council of the town are put to work in the realization of the X Carrera de las Murallas so that it can take place on the morning of March 6, 2022 with all the sanitary guarantees.
