Alexander White He has been president of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) since September 30, 2005. Gallego from Orense, a graduate in Physical Sciences from the University of Valladolid, will be 72 years old in October this year. His sport is judo and he became a 7th DAN belt, coach and referee, and later presided over the Spanish Federation of Judo and Associated Sports. According to the COE website, he received a salary of 106,019.48 euros in 2021, in accordance with his contract with the organization, a private association of public utility that promotes and disseminates the Olympic movement and finances its operation and activities. daily through private income from sponsorship and the management of the rights it owns, according to the information that appears on its website. Although in last year’s budget (the 2022 budget does not appear on the digital page) there are more than 4.9 million revenues contributed by the Higher Sports Council, dependent on the Ministry of Culture and Sports, “for the activities of the year” . His role in the entire film of the candidacy of Aragon and Catalonia for the 2030 Winter Olympics is in question. He has maintained a pro-Catalan attitude, despite the fact that he has always told the Aragonese to be calm and to trust him. But his performance as the committee’s top ambassador has already been revealed. He would have to ask if his position is that of all the members of the COE and also it would be necessary to analyze who they are, what they do and where their transparency is.
Because what is being seen is that it is playing an absurd and ridiculous role by keeping the Government of Spain happy in its interest in satisfying the Catalan Generalitat and thus, in this way, getting what Blanco needs, keeping this spirit alive in order to continue years at the head of Spanish Olympics. And all this supported by the mismanagement of the CSD and the minister of the branch, the Catalan Miquel Iceta, which has been disconcerting and showing a clear political use of the COE and the candidacy of the Pyrenees. In the end, an unfortunate image is given, also at an international level, only comparable to the failures that Alejandro Blanco already had when he presided over the Madrid 2020 Olympic candidacy or with the controversies that arose when Seville tried to opt to host the Games.
Aragón has not wanted to jump through hoops after the president Lambán and all Aragonese were sold something different. And more so when it was discovered that the cards were marked. The candidacy is dying because the proposal is political and not sports and it will be very difficult to turn it around. The door that it wanted to open by dividing the stations and the mayors of the Pyrenees has even been closed to the COE. Some company was already defending its interests with Blanco in Madrid, but the Government of Aragón and Aramón have managed to avoid fissures.
Although this has a risk that must be run and try to remedy and if not, pay. Everyone is very angry with Lambán and with Aragón and outside the community the bad guys in the film are the Aragonese. Saving the distances and depending on how the script runs, which is not over yet, Aragón and its citizens can return to those hard moments of the so-called water war. When it was said that they were unsupportive for being against the transfer of the Ebro and not wanting to give water to those who did not have it, Aragón was filled with self-esteem and had to shout and say that there was a lot of thirsty territory and that there were many works pending to be able to irrigate community. Now, perhaps it will be necessary to go back to explaining that if there are no Olympic Games in Spain it is not the fault of Aragón. The community and its president agreed (Lambán somewhat reluctantly) to unite and make more of a country (Spain) by presenting an Olympic bid that would unite two territories, one of them Catalonia, which was in the international spotlight for independence. But that was frustrated because the central government and the COE of Alejandro Blanco threw themselves into the arms of Catalonia, and Aragón was the troupe.
It is a great wear and tear to re-explain Aragón’s role in this film, but there will be no other choice if he follows the script established up to now. In the end, it will be discovered who Blanco is.
