MADRID, Jan. 11 (SportsFinding) –
The future Minister of Culture and Sports, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, will pick up the witness of his predecessor, José Guirao, to face the main challenges facing Spanish sport, the main one approving the new Law of Sport, which has not been renewed since 1990.
The Government already presented in February last year the draft Sports Law to replace the “outdated” law in force with the objective of adjusting to the current reality of the country. Then, the consultation period was opened, and the Higher Sports Council (CSD) received up to 151 contributions from different sports federations, sports groups and numerous organizations.
However, the two electoral periods and the unstable political situation in the country have prevented it from being approved in Congress. Thus, this will be a priority of the new Executive, who will seek to renew a law that will be fulfilled this year three decades after its application.
The new legislative text provides for greater parity between women and men, protecting and reinforcing maternity leave of athletes and maintaining aid and subsidies even if they have not competed; the abolition of the mandatory conversion of clubs into Sports Corporations (SAD); or the limitation of the concentration of economic rights by professional leagues of competitions on which they do not have the status of organizer.
The reform of the ADO Program, the support plan for the promotion and development of high-performance athletes at the Olympic level, will be another objective of the new minister. The modernization of the program, which combines public and private investment, will be forced to seek new sponsors and companies that are committed to a social return.
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The possible Pirineus-Barcelona candidacy to host the 2030 Winter Olympic Games, which the Barcelona City and the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) have pursued for the past seven years, will be another of the topics on the table, as well as a hypothetical candidacy of Madrid to the 2032 Summer Olympics, something that Madrid's mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has suggested on occasion.
All this six months after the great event of world sport, the Tokyo Games. In them, as explained a few days ago by the outgoing minister Guirao, Spain has the challenge of becoming a regular power and improving the 17 medals, with seven golds, from Rio 2016, a medal winners only surpassed by the unforgettable Barcelona '92.