He Patronage of the Andalusia Olympic Foundation has decided to increase the budget of the Olympic Andalusia Planwhich, in its first call for the new Olympic cycle of Los Angeles 2028, It will have an endowment of up to 530,000 euros, according to the provisions of its first meeting of the year, held today at the headquarters of the Cruzcampo Foundationwith the presidency of the Minister of Culture and Sports of the Junta de Andalucía, Patricia del Pozo.
The maximum organ of the Andalusian Olympic entity, which presides Of the wellhas agreed that the Andalusian sports federations will be able to present from June 9 the candidacies of athletes, technicians and aspiring clubs to enter the main program to support Olympic and Paralympic sport in Andalusia, whose term in this first phase will conclude on the 30th of the same month.
He Olympic Andalusia Plan 2025 It has up to six different categories of awards, to contribute to offer better conditions to athletes at the start of the 2024-2028 Olympic cycle. Four of such categories are intended for athletes, from the highest absolute level to the international cadet range, while the other two lines are aimed at coaches and clubs.
Del Pozo, in the first Board of Trustees of FAO
This Board of Trustees has also approved unanimously the annual accounts of exercise 2024, of which Patricia del Pozo He has highlighted “the patrimonial, financial and management balance that characterizes the Andalusia Olympic Foundation”, An entity that considers“ fundamental ”in the sport system in Andalusia And in which “the Spanish Olympic Committeehe Spanish Paralympic Committee and four great private employers, such as Cruzcampo Foundation, Cajasol Foundation, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and the ONCE”.
During your speech, Of the well He has stated that with the agreements taken today, the basis of public-private support in Andalusia to Olympic and Paralympic sport. “We have the difficult and exciting objective of beating again in three years the stops that the Andalusian sport reached in Paris 2024in whose Olympic Games the historical limits were exceeded with forty-three participating athletes, six medals and eleven Olympic diplomas, and the public-private collaboration is essential for this, so I encourage that more private entities join the support of our Olympic and Paralympic athletes ”.
Finally, the Patronage has validated the management and work developed by the Andalusia Olympic Foundation In 2024 and highlighted the health of the entity, in which they also participate, as employers, athletes Blanca Manchón Domínguez, José Manuel Ruiz Reyes and Jairo Ruiz Lópezthe three with extensive experience in Olympics o Paralympic Games.
Del Pozo, in the first Board of Trustees of FAO
The Andalusia Olympic Foundationpublic entity under the Ministry of Culture and Sportsalso has the collaboration within the Olympic Andalusia Plan of its institutional partners Diputación de Jaén, Diputación de Sevilla and City Hall of Dos Hermanas and City Councils collaborating on La Rinconada and Torredelcampo.
With this edition, the Olympic Andalusia Plan Add 28 years of existence, in which the global awards granted from 1998 to 5,098 has raised, with an investment in yield sport of 11.59 million euros, having been continuous quarry of new sports talents. Athletes like María Pérez, Fatima Gálvez, Alfonso Cabello, Carolina Marín, Marina Alabau, Carmen Herrera, David Valero, Regino Hernández, Lourdes Mohedano, Blanca Manchón, Álvaro Valera or José Manuel Ruiz their sports careers began being beneficiaries of the Olympic Andalusia Plan.
