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Minister Milagros Tolón at the reception of the winter Olympic medalists at the COE

Milagros Tolón praises the Spanish delegation’s best performance at the Winter Olympics: “It is the result of teamwork and commitment”

The athletes of the JJOO of Milan-Cortina have received the recognition after the gold and the two bronzes achieved
  • The Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, Milagros Tolón, spoke on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) in the act of recognition of the delegation that competed in the Winter Games of Milano-Cortina 2026, released with the conquest of a gold and two bronzes in mountain skiing.
     
  • “Today is a day full of emotions and gratitude for the magnificent performance you have signed at these Winter Olympics. A historic gesture, which is the result of teamwork and the commitment of all, starting with the institutions,” said the holder of the Sports portfolio.


Madrid, February 25, 2026.- The Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, Milagros Tolón, spoke on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) in the act of recognition of the delegation participating in the Winter Games of Milano-Cortina, in which the national team has signed the best performance in its history with the conquest of a gold and two bronzes in mountain skiing. In the presence of the athletes and coaches who have led this unprecedented gesture for the Spanish sport, Milagros Tolón has highlighted the results achieved.

“Today is a day full of emotions and gratitude for the magnificent performance you have signed in Milano-Cortina. The best that our country has harvested in a Winter Games. A historic gesture, fruit of the teamwork and commitment of all, starting with the institutions,” said the head of the Sports portfolio, who has been accompanied by the president of the Superior Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes.

Milagros Tolón has also highlighted the emotional impact that the Spanish team’s performance has had on citizens. “In these two weeks you have excited us, you have made us very nervous and you have filled our hearts with pride,” he said.

The Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports especially recalled the “so resounding and eager” victory of Oriol Cardona, “a pioneer of mountain skiing in our country”. “These 54 years of waiting since Paquito Fernández Ochoa’s gold medal have been worthwhile,” he added.

Ana Alonso, the other great Spanish protagonist in this winter Olympic event, has also received the praise of the minister. “How nice it was to see you cross the finish line and go up to the podium to receive that bronze that tastes like gold and that five months ago - when he suffered a run in Sierra Nevada (Granada) - nobody would have imagined. What a barbarity what you have done! I feel a lot of admiration,” he said.

To these two individual medals is added the bronze that Oriol Cardona and Ana Alonso won forming a duo in the mixed relay and that completes the booty of three medals.

This is an unprecedented achievement in Spanish sport, which the minister has put in context: “Before you arrived, Spain had five medals throughout history. In just an hour, you gave us two more. And two days later, a third, in the mixed relay.”

The minister extended her congratulations to the delegation as a whole and conveyed her desire that the Spanish representation continue to grow in future editions.

Precisely, in terms of the future, Milagros Tolón has guaranteed the government’s support. “On the road to the 2030 Winter Olympic Games in the French Alps, which begins today, you will have the full support of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, the Higher Sports Council and the Government as a whole. We will continue to work hand in hand with the federations, with the Spanish Olympic Committee and with the Spanish Paralympic Committee to take our sport to its best level”, he stressed.

In this regard, the minister thanked the President of the COE, Alejandro Blanco, for “the enormous work of promoting our sport and our athletes.”

Milagros Tolón closed his speech with a message of congratulations to the three federations with representation in these Winter Olympic Games.

Not in vain, the event has also made it possible to publicly recognize the work of the Spanish Federation of Mountain and Climbing Sports, the Royal Spanish Winter Sports Federation and the Royal Spanish Ice Sports Federation in the promotion and development of winter disciplines.

The presidents of these three entities, Bernat Clarella, May Peus and Frank González, have thanked this recognition, held at the headquarters of the COE. “We’ve been a team. As a result, the results are being achieved. At the moment, the union of athletes, coaches and technical bodies with the Spanish Olympic Committee, federations and the Government is complete. More cannot be asked for,” said Alejandro Blanco at the close of a day marked by an intense institutional agenda.

The Spanish delegation has previously been received by Their Majesties the Kings at the Palacio de La Zarzuela and by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, at the Moncloa Complex.

Also present at both receptions were the Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, Milagros Tolón, and the President of the Higher Sports Council, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes.