Minister Milagros Tolón visits the High Performance Center of Madrid
- The Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports has visited the facilities of the High Performance Centre in Madrid accompanied by the President of the Higher Sports Council, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes.
- This sports complex of reference at national level is immersed in an ambitious process of modernization of its facilities, thanks to an investment that exceeds 95 million euros since 2018, including 78.2 million euros from the regular budget of the CSD and 17 million euros from the NextGenerationEU funds.
- During the visit, Milagros Tolón has shown his support for the athletes and technical teams that train daily in the CAR of Madrid and has greeted the workers of the Superior Sports Council and the Spanish Paralympic Committee.
Madrid, February 3, 2026.- The Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, Milagros Tolón, visited on Tuesday the facilities of the High Performance Center (CAR) of Madrid, a national reference complex for the preparation of high-level athletes, which has an extension of 150,000m2 and is owned by the Higher Sports Council (CSD).
Milagros Tolón has had the opportunity to tour the facilities of the CAR of Madrid accompanied by the president of the CSD, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, with whom he has shared about the largest renovation process in the history of the center, thanks to an investment that exceeds 95 million euros since 2018.
This figure includes the EUR 78.2 million from the CSD’s regular budget and the EUR 17 million from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan for the renovation of its facilities.
The minister has visited, among others, the judo training rooms, rhythmic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, badminton and fencing, the 50-meter pool and the athletics facilities, where she has greeted athletes and technicians.
The holder of the Sports portfolio has coincided with the swimmer Teresa Perales, the athletes Jordan Díaz, Adrián Ben, Águeda Marqués, Desirée Vila and Irene Sánchez-Escribano, the men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics teams, the senior set of rhythmic gymnastics and the fencing artist Lucía Martin-Português, among others.
In addition, Milagros Tolón has been able to witness exhibitions of some of the high-level athletes who daily make use of these facilities.
“It is impressive to attend a first person training day for our best athletes and to witness all the talent, sacrifice and effort that moves them day by day,” said the Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports.
Before all of them, Milagros Tolón has reaffirmed the “firm and undeniable commitment of the Government to high-level sport, spearhead of our sports system and engine of projection not only of the international image of Spain, but of the best values of our society”.
Government support translates into an unprecedented investment by the Superior Sports Council to promote the renewal of the Madrid CAR.
Since 2018, the agency has allocated a total of 78,294,000 euros from its regular budget to the operation and modernization of this national and international reference center, where every day about 950 athletes of more than fifty modalities train.
The 17 million euros from the NextGenerationEU funds complete an ambitious commitment to the modernization of these facilities.
Among other actions, the refurbishment of the athletics track, the improvement of the energy efficiency of the facilities and the renovation of the Outdoor Pavilion to turn it into a pioneering Center of Excellence and Sports Innovation in Spain stand out.
The CAR of Madrid also has a residence with capacity for 280 athletes, an Institute of Secondary Education and the only Sports Medicine Center with a state character, which serves about 1,500 athletes every year and is also immersed in a process of improving its facilities in order to expand its services.
Greetings to the workers of the CSD and the Spanish Paralympic Committee
The Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports has also greeted the workers of the Higher Sports Council, whom she has personally thanked for her dedication to promoting public policies and her daily work of service to Spanish sport.
In addition, he has visited the offices of the Spanish Paralympic Committee, where he has been received by its president, Alberto Durán, and by all his team.
Milagros Tolón has highlighted the institutional collaboration between the Superior Sports Council and the Spanish Paralympic Committee and has expressed the commitment to continue developing paralympic sport in the coming years.
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