Spanish sport has traditionally been governed by anomalous leaders, careerists, eccentrics, often, let’s say it clearly, truly useless. Pasture, many of them, of Jose Maria Garcia in its heyday, today thick ammunition to the astonishment or scandal of a public opinion far removed from understanding how this peculiar class of despotic managers continues to perpetuate itself in Spanish sports offices. The latest case of uncontrolled authoritarianism and manifest incapacity is, for me, that of the president of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Alexander White.
This strange and confusing character, a judoka with no training or education, has managed in little more than a couple of months, with his romps and judo keys, to confront two autonomous communities, several town councils, towns and institutions, sinking the ship of Olympic project as soon as it is chartered from the shipyard.
Far from uniting Aragon and Catalonia in an ambitious project, well planned and, above all, capable of presenting a joint and winning candidacy, Blanco has divided and confronted the parties, exacerbating all kinds of protests and fueling old grudges.
Let’s analyze in detail the political vintage of the IOC. The President of Aragon Javier Lamban, has rightly felt undervalued in the proposal for a negotiation that started by granting clear advantages to Catalonia. However, the mayor of Barcelona, There’s Colau, has spoken out against the white Olympics. For his part, the mayor of a Zaragoza that should be the Olympic venue, Jorge Azcon, has not received a single call from Alejandro Blanco. As to Aragonè pearss and the Generalitat, in line with its supremacist complex and its infantile fantasy of the Catalan countriesthe Spanish Olympic Committee has allowed them from the beginning to tilt the balance to their side to the detriment of Aragon… Can it get any worse?
The best thing, naturally, would be to remove Mr. Blanco from a project that is too big for him and make him rest in another institution or committee that is technically and politically capable of carrying it out. Otherwise, we will not only have no Olympics, but new and old generation problems to deal with.
