The local and provincial Sports Gala of Huesca came back strong. Three years after its last edition, the Huesca Sports Press Association (APDH) organized it again with the Blue Room of the Casino in the capital of Huesca as the setting. and the athlete Pol Oriach and the rhythmic gymnast Inés Bergua as absolute winners. A party led by Jesús Pena that brought together emotions and memories for its two promoters, the missing Jaime Ferrer and Javier Gironella, as well as for the three who died in the mountain accident that had taken place hours before in Panticosa.
The first prize, for the quarry, went to the Sports Athletics activity organized by the Club Atletismo Intec Zoiti. And the work of the Sabiñánigo Archers Club and its link with the Pink Arrows initiative, aimed at women recovering from breast cancer. Marina MataBarbastro player for Cadi La Seu and under 20 international; and Alejandro Gallegoa badminton player from the Huesca Badminton Club who has been fifth in the Spanish Championship and a junior World Cup player in India, the best promises were chosen.
The trophy for the best club rightly went to Fraga, with the Esneca Fraga Skate Club as an entity that has grown exponentially since its founding in 2021. The next to take the stand was Pol Oriach, who highlighted in his brief words that “when you have a good season you want to celebrate it with your loved ones, and when you receive recognition, it is amazing.” At his residence in Madrid and after “the best year of my sporting career,” he misses his people while persevering with the goal of “establishing myself on the international scene.”
Lorenzo Ortas, Vice-President of the Seventh Group for Peña, collected the Pedro Lafuente and Luis Garcés award for Human and Sports Values with the unfortunate anniversary of the 30th anniversary of the K2 accident in mind. Inés BerguaFor her part, captain of the Spanish and Olympic team in Paris 2024, she confessed that “I come home a little and here I don’t receive any awards but I thank you.” With the “essential” ingredient of “excitement,” which is sought “when things go well and when you fall, I take my city wherever it is.”
The president of the APDH, Martín Pena, handed over to his relatives a recognition of the decades-long work of Jaime Ferrer and Javier Gironella. His daughter Ana Gironella thanked the association, because “a way of understanding journalism and sports is valued.” Pena congratulated the athletes for their achievements “and it is fair to recognize your efforts to represent the values that are most lived in sport.”
