The Secretary of State for Sport, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes and the Delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, held a meeting this afternoon with relevant figures of women's sport in the Valencian Community. There, Barnabas thanked Uribes for “choosing his city for one of his first acts outside Madrid as president of the Superior Sports Council”. The delegate said that “Valencian sport is to be congratulated because we have an ally as the highest representative of sport in Spain”.
Uribes, during his speech, assured that “the Government will work with specific projects and budgets so that sport has equal access and equal value between men and women.” The Secretary of State for Sport has asked the attendees to “collaborate and take a critical look” to face the work in this Olympic year and the coming ones.
The Government of Spain, Bernabé said, “is committed to achieving the effective equality of women and men, of course, in sport as well. The Government of Pedro Sánchez has an unwavering commitment to gender equality, which is reflected in proposals such as the STEAM Alliance for Female Talent, the Strategic Plan for Effective Equality between Women and Men or the Law of Sport.”
A law that, Uribes said, “puts before it a fundamental challenge for the administrations that is to make reality everything that the document says in terms of Equality”.
Pilar Bernabé added that, “despite the setbacks we have seen in some autonomous communities, the Government of Spain is not going to take a single step back on this path begun years ago.” And, addressing the athletes of the Valencian Community, he said “you can be sure that feminist policies in the field of sport will continue to be deployed as long as there is a progressive government in Spain”.
Among the more than half a hundred athletes from the Valencian Community who have come to the meeting are: the triathletes Alejandra Seguí and Noelia Juan, the judoca Laura Gómez, the Formula 1 driver Marta García, the cyclist Pilar Jiménez, the ex-Olympic athlete Concha Montaner, the Valencian pilota player Victoria Díez, the basketball player Marie Gülich, the soccer players Estela Fernández and María López Valenzuela, the young gymnast player Ironés and Muscinés.
The colloquium was moderated by the journalist specializing in women's sports, Raúl Cosín.