MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), Miguel Carballeda, showed this Monday his support for Madrid to bet again on hosting the Games because it “deserves” them and “owes them”, for which it needs “consensus as it has there have been before “and with” all the parties together as a team and with sportsmanship “, while he also asked not to stop being ‘Friends Forever’, in reference to the Barcelona’92 slogan.
“I dared to propose that Madrid dare to make an effort. I was in the three projects that they lost, but all were a great candidacy. It is important that we can celebrate peace, only the year 36 remains free and it is not easy, it has to There must be consensus as there has been before, “Carballeda said at the Europa Press ‘Sports Breakfast’ sponsored by Repsol, DAZN, Unicaja Banco and Loterías y Apuestas del Estado.
The president, who recalled that the city is “an important capital” and welcoming to everyone, hoped that “hopefully” all parties go “together as a team and with sportsmanship.” “And hopefully they give us what they owe us, Tokyo has already had them twice and Madrid none,” he remarked.
In addition, he insisted again that 2036 can be a symbolic date because it is “exactly one century after the bloody Civil War.” “It seems that we do not want to forget it and hopefully having the Games serves to talk about peace and the future. This blind man refuses to look back, this country deserves to look to the future and the Olympic and Paralympic Games would help us,” he said.
“I have seen the change that Barcelona underwent after the 1992 Games, it was a city that lived in a different way and how it transformed and began to have accessibility. They keep reminding us how beautiful it was to go to Barcelona’92, which continues to hold the record of spectators in the largest Paralympic ring in history. With the Games cities are changed and a future begins that has to make us reach higher coexistence quotas. We deserve them, “he said.
In this sense, he made it clear that he is “excited” by both this project that has not yet been designed and the one that is more real of the Barcelona-Pyrenees candidacy to host the Winter Games in 2030. “But the Summer Games are something bigger and that affects more people, without detracting from those of Winter. I know there is a lot of controversy and more when we come out of two crises, but I insist that we must look to the future. Let us set the goal and set goals as a country, “he insisted .
“Any way must be tried and sport helps people understand each other if it is done with good will, consensus and spirit,” he pointed out about the current political tension with Catalonia. “It is not easy, but in those of 1992, which were made with the participation of everyone, the ‘Friends for Ever’ was coined. Let’s not stop being so or we will betray ourselves, sport is a good way to recover lost things,” he demanded .