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The Minister of Culture and the regional government spokesman, Noelia Arroyo visited this morning by the Director General of Sports, Alonso Gómez, and the mayor of Los Alcazares, Anastasio Bastida, athletes who are training this summer at the Center for Sports Tecnificación 'CAR Infanta Cristina', an installation of the Autonomous Community located in Los Alcázares stays where athletes perform to prepare different competitions.
Arroyo, after visiting the premises and greet athletes of taekwondo and table tennis noted that "the CAR Infanta Cristina is a center of national and international reference for athletes of all disciplines, as their facilities allow to practice any kind of sport".
Therefore, he said, "the CAR Infanta Cristina is working with the Sports Council, together with the Spanish federations, in the development of the National Program of Sports Modernization. In this center are organized regularly concentrations, as this week goes for 90 taekwondo athletes, of which twenty are Norwegian, demonstrating so we have first class facilities that attract athletes from around the world. "
In addition, 33 athletes are training between 10 and 17 years of the Table Tennis Federation.
Since it began in July, they have spent 30 federations and clubs to carry out activities that have brought together 1,500 participants, including athletes and coaches, with about 40 percent of the region.
Elite athletes
The Center for Sports Tecnificación 'CAR Infanta Cristina' is used for permanent concentrations of federations, clubs or teams and is a space for the development of courses of sporting orientation and training ground for high-performance athletes (104 total have during this past year).
In this sense, Arroyo stressed that "the CAR is a regular meeting place for elite athletes step in these facilities national and international champions like Joel Gonzalez, Olympic champion in taekwondo in London trying to defend his gold in Rio are formed, or murciano athlete Miguel Angel Lopez, who begin tomorrow their fight for medals at the Olympic Games in the test of 20 kilometers. "
The Minister of Culture and also responsible for the areas of Youth and Sports, will not want to miss the opportunity to congratulate the other murcianos athletes who are competing or have competed in Rio, as in the case of Laura Gil, "sportsman great quality and member of the women's basketball team that beat China just yesterday. "
He also stressed "the hard work carried out in search of sporting excellence" tennis player table Yanfei Shen Zhang, who lives in Cartagena, and cyclist Alejandro Valverde, who congratulated "for having gone as far as they are the Olympic Games and to demonstrate its great strength and its status as athletes, something far more valuable than a medal or a record. "
New government measures
Noelia Arroyo said during his visit "the work from the regional government is performing in sports, maintaining a constant dialogue with the different federations and with society" and showed "activities to strengthen grassroots sport and, Moreover, the recovery of aid for high-performance athletes, which have a budget of 116,000 euros and which will benefit between 70 and 80 athletes of the region. "
The spokesman minister recalled that "little by little, the region is being consolidated as a reference in the celebration of sporting events, and thanks to the Program of Sports Tourism will host this year half hundred new national and international events whose economic impact will be around 5 million euros ".
"But we are not satisfied," said Arroyo, who recalled that since Culture, "has launched a comprehensive plan of pioneers tax incentives in Spain to encourage investment in sport, and has initiated the Plan to Promote Culture and Sport, within which meetings were held with stakeholders and has launched a public consultation in which citizens can make proposals that will strengthen both sectors, which are essential for the development of our region. "
In three days, 84 people have participated in this consultation will be available until September on the web www.carm.es.
Source: CARM
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