BarcelonaThe President of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Alejandro Blanco, has accused the Aragonese President, Javier Lambán, of boycotting the candidacy for the 2030 Winter Olympics for “political reasons” and stressed that the Generalitat government has “behaved exceptional “. Blanco, in statements to Catalunya Ràdio, has confirmed the information from ARA according to which it will be the COE itself that will prepare a proposal for the distribution of headquarters with the support of Catalonia, but including Aragonese stations even if it is not available at the moment. the support of the Lambán government.
After seeing how Blanco ended the negotiations and opted for the COE to make a candidacy with a point of view closer to Catalan than to Aragonese, Lambán had asked Pedro Sánchez to act as mediator, but the Spanish executive spokeswoman Isabel Rodríguez has ruled it out: “We are working with the COE to get a winning candidacy. This is the will of the government, to be the winner, and the responsibility for this lies with the COE. We have a collaborative attitude, and we hope that the rest of the administrations involved will also have it. “Lambán, however, explained this Wednesday that he will send another letter to Sánchez asking him to help and avoid it.” a divorce that resembles the Catalan proposal “. The divorce between Blanco and Lambán, then, is total, but it benefits Catalonia, which is the one who started the project to bring some Games to the Pyrenees alone in 2010 and has maintained” a magnificent attitude “at all times, according to Blanco.
The COE is expected to make its candidacy public this week. According to Blanco, “no one will be able to have everything they want” and the possibility that all the tests will be in Catalan territory is ruled out. Speaking to RAC1, Blanco explained that “if someone wants to see the candidacy from a political point of view, then there is no possibility of playing. In front of the IOC we have to go with a technical candidacy, not a political one. If someone wants to do a tailor-made candidacy, the party has been wrong “.
The COE wants to enjoy the direct support of certain Aragonese ski resorts without going through the Aragonese government, then. Blanco has confirmed that on June 1 he will communicate to the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, the determination to present a candidacy that has been complicated because all the proposals for the distribution of seats that arose from the technical commission created with representatives of all actors involved were systematically rejected by the Lambán government.
