CSD’s Team Spain programs will cover more than sixty specialties of forty different sports
- The new programmes launched by the Government will support the training of sportspeople from almost forty Federations, covering more than sixty Olympic, Paralympic and strategic sports specialties.
- The injection of 16 million euros for 2022 -48 million until 2024-will be channelled through the Spanish Sports Federations based on technical criteria and specific objectives for each athlete and test
- José Manuel Franco: “Team Spain programs have arrived to revolutionize Olympic and Paralympic preparation” and reflect the “firm commitment of the Government to all sports”
Madrid, 11 October 2022. The new Team Spain programs, launched by the Higher Sports Council (CSD) with the aim of promoting preparation and results in the next Olympic and Paralympic Games, will cover during the year 2022 athletes over sixty different specialties from almost forty Spanish Sports Federations (FFDDEE).
Outdoor track, march and route in athletics; rhythmic and artistic gymnastics; waterpolo; cycling on track, route, free and adapted style; climbing and mountain skiing; olympic rowing; canoeing in slalom, calm waters and paracanoe; or triathlon and paratriathlon are some of the 66 different specialties that Team Spain will promote through the 36 federations benefiting from the program during the current year.
“Team Spain programmes have come to revolutionize the Olympic and paralympic preparation of our athletes,” says CSD President José Manuel Franco. “An ambitious and exciting project that demonstrates the firm commitment of the Government to all sports and its immense power to project the image of Spain in the world”. As he recalls, this new project aims “to overcome the results of Barcelona 92, whose medallion is still the glass ceiling of our Olympism” and “to keep Spain among the references of paralympic sport at international level”.
To this end, the Council of Ministers approved on 4 October a new injection of EUR 16 million for 2022, out of a total of EUR 48 million for the remainder of the Olympic cycle. A budget that is nourished by the funds of the Viana Pacts - income obtained from the commercialization of audiovisual rights of professional football - and that will be distributed through the FFDDEE according to technical criteria established by a valuation committee of the CSD.
Among the requirements, the Team Spain Elite program will take into account those athletes and teams with objective possibilities of obtaining a place among the top eight in the JJOO and a podium in the Paralympic Games, according to previous results in national and international competitions. And the Team Spain Strategic Interest program – aimed at non-Olympic specialties but key in the projection of the image of Spain – will support the development of the elite base based on specific projects presented by its Federations.
In any case, the additional funding for the FFDDEE provided by the Team Spain programmes will require the joint agreement of objectives of the highest level of sport, thus being a finalist and specific funding, appropriate to the individual needs of athletes and teams.
