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Representatives of the bosnia-Herzegovina Olympic committees and Spain they held a meeting on Wednesday in Beijing on the possibility that Sarajevo will host some of the tests of the candidacy of the Winter Olympics Pyrenees 2030.
The meeting was confirmed by the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) and the Bosnia-Herzegovina Olympic Committee, which announced new meetings for next week in Madrid and the visit in early March to Sarajevo of a Spanish delegation to see facilities and infrastructure.
“Sarajevo must prepare a framework budget to rebuild these infrastructures,” says the note, which points out that if the idea progresses, 25% of athletes would compete in the Bosnian capital and the rest in Spain.
Among others, trampolines and tracks for the Nordic combined would be rebuilt as priorities, as well as the bobsleigh track for competitions like bob, sled and skeleton.
The idea of joint organization ” fits into a new concept of sustainability of the Games, where particular emphasis is placed on the use of existing infrastructuresin other words, their adaptation”, concludes the communiqué of the Bosnian Olympic committee.
Barcelona hosted the Summer Games in 1992 and Sarajevo hosted the Winter Games in 1984.
They attended this Wednesday the meeting in Beijing, where the 2022 Winter Games are currently held, the president of the COE, Mr. Liuhuabing, and Secretary General Victoria Cabezas.
Bosnia were present on the president of the national Olympic committee, Marijan Kvesicvice-president Milanko Mucibabic and secretary general Said Fazlagic.
The Pyrenees-Barcelona 2030 project studies for a few years now the possibility of including Sarajevo as a candidate partner, and several contacts have already taken place in this regard.