World Champion Ivan Alonso with President of the Olivico Javier Herrero (Photo Pedro Figueras)

From the hand of the Club Piragüismo Olívico, which is presided over by Javier Herrero and which has its facilities in the Dársena de Bouzas in the framework of the bicentennial of the Galician nautical, the Liceo Marítimo; this fashion sport in the Spanish Olympism enters this year for the first time in the Abanca Week that will be held between September 16 and November 11, with the support of clubs of Porto, Baiona, Vigo, Marín, Pontevedra, Sada, La Coruña and Gijón, and will have a participation of the traditional and the tourist, in the marine, in the event of the one of the one that will be held in the one of the one of the long, the one of the one of the one of the one of the one of the great, of the one of the one of the one of the

The Pyragüism will be a very special test with several hundred palists from the Galician, Asturian, Spanish-Latvian and Navarre communities, to which the Galician Federation of Piragüismo has granted the title of Galicia Cup, and which will be the first time it is held. In this way this federation is aligned with Remo's, which has done the same with the Abanca Week in the Pontevedra era, both at the level of fixed bank, mobile bank, and ergometer rowing.

Javier Herrero wants the Pyragüismo to have a high quality space within the Abanca Week and is already thinking of bringing in the short term the best sea kayaks worldwide. From the moment on, the world-wide leader Ivan Alonso has agreed to chair the Abanca Week Honour Committee, as far as pyragüismo is concerned and I will be present in the Galicia Cup that will be held in the waters of the beaches of Bouzas, with a route close to the coast to cover in a way and back all the brewery of the Vigo Free Zone, and that it will be able to witness numerous public, that will be Saturday September 16. The first competition of this sport at the Abanca Week will be reserved for the kayak of the sea, k1 and k2, of the categories children and cadet, and within them male and female.