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Presentation of the Spanish Sport Model Project at the headquarters of the Spanish Olympic Committee

Pedro Sánchez announces the creation of the Spanish Sports Executive Committee

  • The President of the Government of Spain has revealed it during the presentation of the report ‘Sport Model’ at the headquarters of the Spanish Olympic Committee in Madrid
  • The event was attended by the Minister of Education, Training and Sports, Pilar Alegría, and the President of the Higher Sports Council, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes

Madrid, December 5, 2025. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Friday the creation of the “Executive Committee of Spanish Sport” that will be “composed of the Superior Sports Council, the Spanish Olympic Committee and the Spanish Paralympic Committee”, and that will develop its work – within the framework of the CSD – in “tasks of planning and direction of strategic lines at the service of our athletes and federations”.

He did so during the presentation of the ‘Sport Model’ report at the headquarters of the Spanish Olympic Committee in Madrid, where he was accompanied by the Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, Pilar Alegría. The president of the Higher Sports Council, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, also attended.

Sánchez, who announced one of the main mandates of the report on the need to modernise and adapt the governance of sport, said that this new body shares “another profound conviction” and that “Olympic sport and paralympic sport advance hand in hand”. “Spain – in this he said – does not go back. There is no sport A and sport B, a primary model and a secondary model. There is only one Spanish sport: inclusive, modern, competitive and with a vision of the future”.

It is therefore about “moving together – Olympic Committee, Paralympic Committee and Higher Sports Council – so that Spanish sport plays its best game in the coming years”, he stressed.

For this, the “budgetary effort” made by the Executive is also important. In that sense, he stressed that, “in the last seven years alone, we have invested a billion euros more than those that were allocated to sports policy with the previous government, which have served to promote talent, improve facilities, promote equality and modernize our sports system.”

The president also stressed that “that effort had a milestone of great symbolic value” when Spain became “the only country in the European Union that incorporated sport among the policies of the Recovery Plan after the pandemic”, thanks to a “vision of sport” as “a lever for transformation and local development, with a strong impact on the territory”.

During his speech, he pointed out that Spain is experiencing one of the best moments in its history in women’s, men’s and grassroots sports. Our country “is not only one of the great global references in soft power, but also in what many already call sport power”. In fact, “sport is probably one of the best business cards of our country in the world”, he added.

After recalling the unemployment data and record of affiliation to Social Security in November (21.8 million) known this week, which clearly reflect that “Spain does not stop” and that “it advances strongly”, Pedro Sánchez indicated that “about 190,000 people work today in sectors related to sport: 47% more than those who did it seven years ago in this field”.

He also mentioned that last year Spain sent a delegation of 382 athletes to the Paris Games, in which more than half were women, to conclude that “the real podium we have conquered is that of an inclusive, egalitarian and supportive Spanish sport. Anchored, therefore, in the values that define us as a society”.

The presentation was also attended by the president of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Alejandro Blanco; the general director of the Spanish Paralympic Committee, Francisco Botía, and Alberto Palomar, director of the ‘Sport Model’ project.