RFEA president and athletes Raquel González and Mario García will analyze options ahead of the World Cup in Budapest

MADRID, July 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The President of the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA), Raúl Chapado, and athletes Raquel González and Mario García will analyze the sport’s national health and options at the next World Cup in Budapest, at the Europa Press Sports Breakfasts, an event to be held this Wednesday (10:00) in the Meeting Place Auditorium on Paseo de la Castellana, 81, in Madrid.

Raúl Chapado will talk about Spain’s current and future athletic projects ahead of the World Championships in Budapest, which will take place from August 19 to 27, and the farthest from the Olympics in Paris, after the national representative won 5 medals, three gold and two bronze, at the recent European Games in Krakow (Poland).

Chapado will be joined by Raquel González, European runner-up in the 35 kilometers and Athlete of the Year for RFEA 2022, and Mario García, bronze in the 1,500 meters at the European Championships, days after meeting at the Vallehermoso stadium in Madrid on the World Athletics circuit and shortly before the Spanish Championships in Torrent (Valencia), from 28 to 30 July.

The forum is the fourth of the fifteenth season of ‘Sports Breakfast’, sponsored by DAZN, State Lotteries and Stakes, Repsol, UnicajaBanco and Vithas, after the first president of the Professional Women’s Football League (LPFF), Beatriz Álvarez, inaugurated it in December, and the following one by Luis Rubiales and Francisco Blázquez, presidents of the RFEF and RFEBM, in February and April .

In the last financial year, Luis Rubiales; president of the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), Miguel Carballeda; from RFEBM, Francisco Blázquez; the one from LaLiga, Javier Tebas; and women’s national football coach, Jorge Vilda, along with international Alexia Putellas, two-time Ballon d’Or picks Patri Guijarro and Irene Paredes.

The President of the CSD at the time, José Manuel Franco, also did so, according to the Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta; president of the International Triathlon Federation and IOC member, Marisol Casado, Spanish Rowing Federation, Asunción Loriente, and president of FUTPRO, Amanda Gutiérrez; and the director of the Spanish Commission on the Fight Against Doping in Sport (CELAD), José Luis Terreros.

On previous courses, Jorge Vilda himself and internationals Amanda Sampedro, Mariona Caldentey and Silvia Meseguer were present before leaving for the World Cup in France. Next, under the title ‘Motorcycle, with ‘M’ for woman’, pilot Ana Carrasco, the first female world champion in Supersport 300; Sara García, world champion victim; Tatiana Calderón, the first woman to participate in Formula 2, and Marta García, the only Spanish driver in the WSeries.

CPE President, Miguel Carballeda; Teresa Perales, the Spanish athlete with the most medals (27) at the Paralympic Games and Women of Asturias Prize for Sport 2021; athlete Gerard Descarrega, Paralympic, world and European champion in the 400 meters; and cyclist Ricardo Ten, track and road world champion and bronze in Tokyo, offering sports X-rays of the Paralympics before the postponement of Tokyo 2020’s start due to the pandemic.

Under the heading, ‘Repsol, 50 years of support and triumph in motorsport’, Carlos Sainz, two-time world rally champion and three-time Dakar champion and Princess of Asturias Award for Sport 2019; Jorge Martínez ‘Aspar’, quadruple motorcycle world champion and named ‘MotoGP Legend’; and Toni Bou, thirty-two-time world trial champion, analyzes the causes that have made Spain a world power in motorcycle and motorcycle racing.

President of the Royal Spanish Winter Sports Federation (RFEDI), May Peus; RFEDI Women and Snow head Paula Fernández-Ochoa, rider Regino Hernández, bronze at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, and Olympic skier Juan del Campo talk about Blanca Fernández-Ochoa’s legacy.

And Team Movistar general manager Eusebio Unzué, former cyclists Pedro ‘Perico’ Delgado, Ángel Arroyo and Pablo Lastras and former road cycling world champion Alejandro Valverde review 40 years of success ‘From Reynolds to Movistar’.

NATIONAL SPORTS MAIN ACTORS

In previous campaigns, major national and international sports figures have paraded through the ‘Sports Breakfast’, such as club managers, sports organizations and entities, as well as athletes and former athletes from various disciplines.

Among them, the first president of the CSD, María José Rienda, his predecessors Jaime Lissavetzky, Albert Soler, José Ramón Lete and Miguel Cardenal, and his predecessors, Irene Lozano and José Manuel Franco; the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, of AFE, David Aganzo, of ACB, Antonio Martín, and of FEB, Jorge Garbajosa.

In line with Real Valladolid’s President of the Board of Directors, Ronaldo Nazario; those of Atlético de Madrid, Enrique Cerezo, and now FC Barcelona president, ​​​​​Joan Laporta, and former Real Madrid player Ramón Calderón, former national football coach Vicente del Bosque and former Liverpool and Real Madrid coach Rafa Benítez.

The sports agora is occupied by the president of the national federation, then president of the Association of Athletes (AD) Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, Olympic champions Lydia Valentín and Carolina Marín; racers Marc Márquez, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo, Maverick Viñales, Álex Crivillé, and one-time ’12+1′ world champion Ángel Nieto; Marc Coma and Stephane Peterhansel, ‘Monsieur Dakar’; swimmers Rafa Muñoz, Aschwin Wildeboer and Mireia Belmonte, syncro swimmers Ona Carbonell and Raquel Corral, and golfer Miguel Ángel Jiménez.

Director General of MAPFRE at the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR), Pedro Campos, captain of the Spanish challenge, Xabi Fernández, and crew members Támara Echegoyen, the first Spaniard in regatta history, and Joan Vila, considered the best sailors in the world; and world champion coach José Vicente ‘Pepu’ Hernández, Paco Antequera and Javier Lozano, president of the National Futsal League (LNFS).

There’s no shortage of former cyclist Miguel Indurain, a five-time Tour champion; Alberto Contador, multiple Giro and Tour winner and three-time La Vuelta champion; Joaquim ‘Purito’ Rodriguez; and the greatest Spanish athletes and basketball players of all time, Fermín Cacho and Amaya Valdemoro.

Former Madrid mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, and former CEO of the Madrid 2016 and Madrid 2020 Olympic bids, Mercedes Coghen and Víctor Sánchez, analyzed the options for the Spanish capital’s project to host the country’s second Olympics.

INTERNATIONAL ATTENDANCE: IOC, NBA AND THE OLYMPICS

Representatives of international organizations also attended the ‘breakfast’ such as the vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs from Spain; former London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Heritage Ambassador Lord Sebastian Coe, current President of World Athletics, formerly IAAF; former British Ambassador to Spain Giles Paxman; former Managing Director of Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) Knut Frostad, and former Deputy Managing Director of ASO Yann Le Moenner.

Additionally, Brazil’s Secretary for Extraordinary Security for Major Events, Andrei Augusto Passos, former European League Executive Director, Jordi Bertomeu, French Ambassador to Spain, Yves Saint-Geours, and NBA Vice President for EMEA, Jesús Bueno, are also on the list of speakers.