Aragón wants to convince the Spanish Olympic Committee that it is not so difficult to achieve a joint candidacy with Catalonia on an equal footing and with a balanced distribution of events, disciplines and athletes to compete. It is understood as one last offensive of the Executive led by Javier Lambán, who sent it to Madrid with the almost unanimous support of the political forces, the business fabric of the snow and tourism sector and the social mass of the Pyrenean municipalities, who cling to the minimal hope that the Olympic dream does not go out for them.
The proposal includes four different batchesand in each of them proposes an option A and a B with the distribution of tests and athletes quantified to state what this balance between the two communities is all about. As the Aragonese president, Javier Lambán, has already stated, he has the firm will that the Generalitat be the one that chooses first in each of these sections, so that it is not seen as an interested proposal, but as a technical project far from the interests politicians.
the four lots
Thus there appears a lot 1 in which it includes, as option A, the 12 tests of cross country ski, which would move 596 participants; and 11 o’clock biathlonwith 424. That is, 23 events and 1,020 athletes. The option Bwould be to host the Acrobatic ski, with 13 tests and 544 participants; and the snowboard, with 11 and 466 competitors. Total, 24 events and 1,010 athletes.
In the most difficult moment
Everything is possible in this Spanish candidacy to host the Winter Olympic Games from 2030 but the latest Aragonese proposal comes at the most complicated moment to fit it with the other two parts of the negotiation. On the one hand, the COE, or rather its president, Alejandro Blanco, no longer hides his preference for going with Catalonia alonesince he invited her to the visit of the president of the IOC, Thomas Bach, to Madrid last Wednesday and did not do so with Aragón, who excluded her and then accused her of “lying” from a distance. Before, the DGA had accused him of being a “political commissioner” of Catalonia and urged him to take “a step back” in the negotiation
On the other, the Generalitat, which has already had the opportunity to explain his solo project to Bach and the IOC advisers. Her Presidency Minister, Laura Vilagrà, assured this Wednesday that her bet without Aragón “has all the guarantees to win”. Now they will have to decide if they attend to the Aragonese proposal, if they reject it or if, as until now, they do not even take it into account.
