“We will not respond to the proposals or occurrences of Aragon.” The spokeswoman for the Government, Patrícia Plaja, has made it clear with these words that the Generalitat does not intend to consider Aragón’s latest proposal on the distribution of disciplines to form a candidacy for the 2030 Winter Games. For Catalonia, the agreement was sealed at end of March by the technical teams of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) and the Spanish, Catalan and Aragonese governments. That should be the basis for a minimum modification if necessary, but the Government does not contemplate studying the proposal of the president of Aragon, Javier Lambán, who, in addition to dividing the tests by batches according to their quality, bets on distributing the alpine skiing (descent , giant, super-giant and slalom) between the two autonomous communities depending on whether they are male or female.
Although it does not close in band to other proposals, the Government does not want the partridge to get dizzy much more. “If we listened to what has been coming out or the different proposals that were not agreed upon, but rather unilateral by one of the actors involved, we would have a number of scenarios so varied that we would not stop speculating about it”, Plaja opined in clear allusion to the Government de Lambán before acknowledging that everything related to the Olympic bid “seems like a soap opera”.
Alejandro Blanco, president of the COE, has assured today that there will be a telematic meeting between the four parties very soon. It could happen tomorrow, when Blanco is in Macedonia. In the sports entity they are not in favor of separating by gender as Aragón proposes. The president of the Spanish Olympic Committee himself has opined that this option “would not be convenient”, but in an interview on TV3 this morning he did not want to close any doors and has clarified that the decision corresponds to the territories where the tests can be held.
However, the Generalitat would consider modifications, but does not agree with those of Aragon. Lambán presented his proposal on Thursday in the Aragonese Parliament and sent it yesterday to the COE. “The Govern will be there [at the meeting] with the work done for weeks and we hope to come out of it with things clear”, stressed Plaja, who in turn hopes that “the terms” of the candidacy will be set and clarified. .
Nor is the Generalitat willing for now that the Olympic candidacy go from being considered from 2030 to 2034. “If someone considers that 2030 is already a date that is far away, 2034 much more”, has judged the spokeswoman for the Government. The commitment of the Generalitat is none other than for eight years from now: “Work has been done on that, on that date the work is done and 2034 is very far from us. It is not on the government’s agenda.”
Blanco already said a few days ago that if an agreement is not reached so that the candidacy is shared by both autonomous communities, the possibility of presenting their projects separately to the COE would be opened. It would be the latter who would end up choosing between one of the two. Today it has not been so clear, despite the fact that he has stated that “if they do not agree, there are insurmountable differences and it is impossible to reach a consensus, obviously we cannot present the candidacy in the way we had proposed it”.
