José Manuel Franco: “ These awards recognize the vital work of CC.AA. and municipalities in the objective of building a country healthier ”

The president of the CSD has emphasized that “ in the promotion of sport all the institutions are part of the same team ”

José Manuel Franco has also located in the sport and health as “ strategic area of public policies ” and sports has underlined the commitment of the government, which is already working on a national strategy against sedentary ministerial initiative,

Madrid, 19 of november of 2021.- The president of the supreme council for sports (CSD), José Manuel Franco has presided today in the agency's headquarters the award ceremony of the seventh edition of the awards CSD-BEACTIVE recognizing municipalities, Autonomous Communities and athletes who have shown greater commitment to the promotion of sports and healthy habits in the last edition of the european week of sport.

In the words of Franco, “ the 63 proposals before these awards are the greatest evidence that España is sport. These awards recognize the vital work of the autonomous communities and municipalities in the objective of building a country healthier. In this context, all the institutions are part of the same team ”.

Less than 191 activities onto the platform. A number of less than other editions due to the effectiveness of the risk of infection by the pandemic that has been advised to avoid the well-attended events.

In this regard, the president of the CSD stated that “ the main conclusion that we draw from this as a society of the world stage that has generated the COVID-19 is that sport and health must walk inexorably hand in hand. Sport and health must be configured as a strategic area of public policies in the coming decades ”, has assured José Manuel Franco, while has reminded us that “ every euro invested in physical activity prevents up to 15 euros of health expenditure ”.

For this reason, the council for sports, Franco, has developed “ works in articulating a national strategy for sport and habits that consolidates these good habits for combating overweight and obesity ”.

The work carried out by the ambassadors of the european week of sport, Paco Cubelos, piragüista; Roxana Popa, gymnast Rubén García,;influencer; and Rafa Nogues, divulgador scientific, very active in their RRSS, and collaboration of the spanish federation of municipalities and provinces (FEMP) has been pivotal to the success of this issue.

The city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria was the only municipality that organized a great event, the BEACTIVE NIGHT, which was a success of assistance, in which visitors were able to practise a wide variety of sports activities in a festive atmosphere and secure.

Municipalities rewarded in this issue have been: Balanegra, Herrera del Duque and San Esteban de Gormaz under the category of municipalities of up to 5,000 inhabitants; Bigastro, La Nucia and Marry between those with between 5 and 20 thousand thousand inhabitants; Teruel, Benidorm and mahón between municipalities with a population of between 20,000 and 100,000 inhabitants; and Pamplona, Cartagena and Alcalá de Henares in the category of growing population, between 100,000 and 500,000 inhabitants.

The Autonomous Communities have been mentioned: the canary islands, Madrid and Murcia.