Barcelona bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics

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There are plans for Olympic Winter Games to be held in Barcelona, the second largest city of Spain and capital of the autonomous community of Catalonia, together with a mountain resort in the Pyrenees. A bid was considered for the 2022 Olympics, but mayor Xavier Trias arrived at the conclusion that the city was not ready yet. Instead, one "must concentrate its efforts and commitment to work to reach the Olympic target by 2026." In the past, however, Barcelona hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics.
History
Jordi Hereu i Boher, the Mayor of Barcelona, announced on January 13, 2010 the intention of nominating Barcelona as organizer of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Hereu said that Barcelona had the opportunities to organize the WOG because the city had enough equipment and also the Barcelona '92 legacy. The Mayor who has all the municipal groups in his favor, designated Enric Truñó as the commissioner responsible for the candidature. In 2011 there was a political change in the Barcelona City Council which designated as the new mayor of the city. Even with the change Trias preserved Truñó as the commissioner.
On 20 May 2010 the Council constituted the Territorial Council (Consell Territorial). This Council represents ten regional councils, ten regional capitals, nineteen municipalities with ski resorts, the presidents of provincial councils of Lleida, Girona and Barcelona, and representatives of the Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya). The Territorial Council is the piece that makes possible the territorial support for the Olympic Project. Also it provides updates on all the advances of the candidature to the local institutions of the Catalan Pyrenees.
On 15 September 2010 the Technical Office presents the candidature. In 2011 the mayor Trias spoke of his willingness to continue working on the project because ‘‘it is a big opportunity for Barcelona, and even more for all Catalonia’’.
The Technical Office of the candidature is working on a preliminary bid proposal and investigating the viability of the project. The candidature must be assessed for the municipal government, and approved for the Directive Commission.
Management bodies
The highest governing body of the bid is the Steering Committee wich is composed of representatives from the City Council, the Generalitat of Catalonia, the regional diputation of Girona, Lleida and Barcelona, the Syndif of Aran, the towns of Lleida, Puigcerda, Seu d'Urgell, Sort, Tremp, Vielha and Mijaran, the presidents of the Union of Sports Federations of Catalonia (UFEC), the Catalan Federation of Winter Sports (FCEH), the General Council of Chambers of Commerce of Catalonia, and the Catalan Association Stations of Mountains (ACEM).
The Regional Council is the representative body of the territorial application. Its function is sharing the progress of the project with all the local institutions representing the Pyrenees. It is composed of fifty institutional representatives, which include the presidents of Catalan Councils in the Pyrenees, the mayors of regional capitals in the Catalan Pyrenees, and twenty mayors of municipalities with winter sports facilities.
In addition to these two organs, the bid also has several advisors from committees such as the Sport, Athletes, Paralympic and Sustainability Committees.
2022 bid file
During three years the Technical Office (Oficina Tècnica) has prepared the Bid File to be submitted to the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) in order to study the viability of the event. The Spanish Olympic Committee, who is the maximum Spanish Olympic authority, has to ratify the Bid and present Barcelona’s aspiration to the International Olympic Committee (CIO). In the Bid are analyzed in depth all the aspects of the Candidature.
These Winter Olympic Games are bipolar with Barcelona as the organizer of ice sports and Pyrenees with the snow games. The Olympic Villages in Barcelona will be located in (Zona Franca), and in the Pyrenees it's meant to be placed in Cap de Comella (in the parking of La Molina’s cable).
For the competitions, Barcelona will use most of the Olympic venues of 1992 Barcelona legacy: the , the , the Palau Sant Jordi and the [http://en. .org/wiki/Estadi_Ol%C3%ADmpic_Llu%C3%ADs_Companys Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys]. Also it’s going to be used the new Palau de Gel Blaugrana (that FC Barcelona will built). The only building to be constructed it’s the Anell de Velocitat located in Zona Franca. In the Pyrenees the competitions would be held in Masella, in the ski stadium called Estadi, and in La Molina, in Pla de les Forques, Estadi Barcelona, Estadi Fontcanaleta and in Estadi Pla d’Anyella .
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