Pilar Díaz, chairperson of the Physical Disability Observatory and Paco Medina, Director of Open Camp sign a collaboration agreement.
Open Camp – the first sports attraction park in the world – will open next spring. The new ideas for leisure and promoting sport include the concept for the first Paralympic museum.
“Sport and the fight against climate change” informative conferences
New trends in sport and increased numbers of sports fans have had consequences on the environment.
The Spanish Olympic Committee acknowledges the work of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation
The executive committee of the Spanish Olympic Committee has awarded the Olympic Plaque for Sporting Merit to the Barcelona Olympic Foundation for the work undertaken in promoting Olympic and sporting values through the management of the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum and the Joan Antoni Samaranch Centre for Olympic and Sport Studies.
Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders and her skier husband Erik Schlopy visit the Olympic Museum.
Summer won four medals in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games (two gold, one silver and one bronze).
Final conference and closing of the 11th Edition of the Olympic Forum
Today’s morning conference began with Paco Medina, director of the Open Camp Project, the first park in the world dedicated to sport where technology and sports are made available to the public. An ambitious project that will see the light of day on 16/06/2016 in the Olympic Ring located on Montjuïc and where the Olympic Museum will be a protagonist.
Social networks were the topic addressed in the morning conference held during the 11th Edition of the Olympic Forum.
Romà Cuyas, former Secretary of Sport; Gerard Esteva, President of the Sports Federation Union of Catalonia (UFEC); Santiago Siquier, territorial representative of the Generalitat and Marta Carranza, Commissioner of Sport of Barcelona City Hall, were in charge of opening the conferences of this 11th Edition of the Olympic Forum.
Technological progress enables precision and control in sports
The afternoon session in the Olympic Forum spoke highly of new technologies and the wonderful possibilities they offer sports.
Grigoris Georgious, winner of the 5th Sports Graphic Humour competition, awarded his prize by Gerard Esteva, President of the UFEC, and Juli Pernas, director of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation
David Moner, Honorary President of the UFEC and Marta Claris, sports administrator of Barcelona City Hall were in charge for awarding the two prizes to Osvaldo DaCosta, and the representative of the Consulate of Indonesia acting on behalf of Armen Hamonagan.
Enric Truñó receives gold medal for sporting merit from Mayoress Ada Colau
Enric Truñó’s has had a long and productive sporting career. He is a world ambassador of the good work carried out in Barcelona as a city of sport and sports organisation.
Mayors, council members, senators, etc. went to Barcelona City Hall to show their admiration and give their thanks to Enric Truñó, who was thrilled by the presence of the former mayor, Pasqual Maragall.
Gustavo Chelles, designer of the Olympic and Paralympic torch for Rio 2016 and Xavier Costa Porta, director and owner of the Catalan company, Recamlaser, visit the Olympic Museum.
Juli Pernas, director of the Olympic Museum, were visited by Chelles and Costas.
