VALLEY UPRISING’ WINNER OF THE 6th EDITION OF THE BCN SPORTS FILM FESTIVAL
Xavier Amador, Esports Internacionals Relationships director, and Franco Ascani, president of the FICTS, were the persons who gave the Àmfora Ciutat de Barcelona to the best film in the 6th edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival to ‘VALLEY UPRISING’, a documentary by Nick Rosen and Peter Mortimer. A production by Zachary Barr. The greatest untold story of American counter-culture is that of the Yosemite Valley rock climbers. For fifty years, Yosemite’s massive cliffs have drawn explorers and madmen to leave materialism behind and venture into the high, lonesome granite.
The Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch has been the venue of the opening ceremony
The Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch has been the venue of the opening ceremony presented by journalist Joan Garcia and presided by Maite Fandos, president of Fundació Barcelona Olímpica.
Catalan snowboarder Jordi Font Ferrer visits the Olympic Museum as consultant for the Ski and Snow section.
2006, on his first attempt in the boardercross discipline, his fourth place earned him an Olympic diploma. Jordi competed with a dislocated shoulder, an injury he suffered a few days earlier in training when a teammate fell on top of him.
Maite Fandos, President of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, and Jaume Mora, President of the CEEB (Barcelona School Sport Council) sign a partnership agreement with the aim of promoting and publicising sporting values among young school students.
The FBO, the body which manages the Olympic and Sport Museum, and the CEEB, responsible for the sporting activity of more than 40,000 school students in Barcelona, have established a series of initiatives in order to bring young people into closer contact with sporting values.
Tribute to Nelson Mandela. The Olympic Museum opens the Mandela-AWEPA space.
of AWEPA Europe, and Josep Maldonado, President of AWEPA Spain, were given the honour of formally opening the Mandela – AWEPA Space of the Olympic Museum. Maria Teresa Samaranch, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, Albert Batlle, Director-General of the Mossos d’Esquadra police force; Enric Truñó, Executive Councillor for Sport during the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games; Joan Anton Camuñas, former Secretary-General for Sport, and representatives of Barcelona’s consular corps, were among the leading dignitaries who chose to attend the event in recognition of the lifetime achievement of Nelson Mandela.
Marfil Santa Coloma, the longest-standing club in the futsal league, celebrates its 40th anniversary.
To mark the event, Technical Director Juan Carlos León, Coach Xavier Passrrius, and the 3 captains: Rubén González, Albert Segura and Daniel Salgado, visited the Olympic and Sport Museum to talk to Museum Director Juli Pernas.
Members of Tsukuba University in Ibaraki, Japan, the country which will be hosting the 2020 Olympics, visit the facilities of the Museum and the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Study Centre.
The delegation, comprising Hitoshi Saga, Study of Leisure and Sport Industry; Kazuya Naruse and Ai Aramaki, the Professor’s assistance in the University’s Sport Sciences Department, and Haruko Hosoda, PhD and Associate Professor at the Trade Department of Tsukuba University, showed an interest in the Barcelona 92 document archive and the re-use of Olympic facilities.
Abel Kirua, Olympic silver medallist and two-time world champion, and Florence Kiplagat, the holder of the women’s half marathon world record, were the guest athletes at the presentation of the Barcelona Half Marathon.
Accompanying the runners were Joan Porcar, CEO of RPM Racing, Iolanda la Torre, Manager of the IBE, and Samantha Lliteras, Business Development Executive of Edreams.
Presentation of the 2014 L’Aliança Circuit Awards
Awards were handed out to the most consistent participants in the races of the L’Aliança Circuit.
Visit by students on the sports law specialisation course at the University of Navarre
Juli Pernas, Director of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, had the task of welcoming the group, headed by Javier Trigo, Director of the Olympic Studies Centre at the University of Navarre.
