Free: “ the PROAD is our priority and we are going to upgrade ” much more

Madrid, 16 January 2020.The High Council of sports (CSD) and the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) have organised a day of advice to athletes from the residence Blume in which I have explained what their options once you finish your activity in top-level sport.

Both institutions have released the specific programmes that developed for the preparation of athletes before its withdrawal from the competition of first level. The CSD has launched the care programme sportsman (PROAD); four Events of exceptional Public Interest (AEIP): New targets, Universe Woman, ADB2020 and sport Inclusive; as well as the so-called “ Spain Competes ”, focusing on the role of patronage of companies in the field of sport. For its part, the COE has an office of Helps the Sportsman also aimed to offer academic resources and labor high-level sportsmen at the time of leaving sport.

The president of CSD, María José Free, has been welcoming athletes Blume residents who have attended the day. During his intervention has emphasized that the “ path that follows a sportsman is not easy, but we go to find. The CSD and COE we united by a common cause. ” “ PROAD is our priority and we are going to upgrade much more. Sport gives you very valuable tools that are of interest to companies: work, sacrifice, record.... ”, has pinpointed.

In this same line has spoken Ignacio Solá, chairman of the committee of athletes COE, who has emphasized the importance of training and to establish connections between companies and athletes to facilitate labour output once they leave sport practice.

Attendees have been exdeportistas as athletes Ruth Beitia and Joanne García Bragado, and the judoca Ernesto Pérez, who have spoken of their experiences and expectations before the transition to work after her athletic career.