In Abanca Week, the Finn will continue to be Olympic by the Royal Nautical Club of La Coruña (Photo Alfred Farré)

The Abanca Week will have its large block dedicated to the Galician north, in the next October... and among the four events scheduled is the Spanish Championship of Finn El Corte English, which will take place in the "Puente de la Hispanidad..." organized by the Real Club Náutico de La Coruña.

This class will no longer be Olympic after the Tokyo Games... but as they will be held in spring 2021, it will remain Olympic with the appointment of La Coruña... so Abanca Week will host the last Spanish championship of Finn "as an Olympic class" in history.

We play on the subject, an excellent article by our partner Jaume Soler:

https: / / jaumesoler.net / el-coronavirus-da-a-vida-extra-al-finn /

What things are. Who was going to tell the Finn class that he would have another life. And I'm not talking about another life like video games, even if in real life we were inside one of them. I explain. The Finn was the ship that ruled out the World Sailing for the Paris Olympic program 2024, which in theory lost its status in August of this year. But now it has turned its position and will have one more year of life after the Tokyo Olympic Games have been postponed to the summer of 2021 due to the pandemic caused by the coronavirus.

The Finn class is the one that has tried most by land, sea and air to stay within the Olympic Games, but without success. It is a historical class, the oldest of the Olympic - although also the one that has evolved most in terms of materials and technology - and in which the physical characteristics of its regatists - over 1.90 and over 95 kilos of peso - make these athletes have virtually no access to any of the other classes that will compete in Paris 2024.

The Spanish regatists have to be most happy about the decision to delay the Olympic Games for a year. On the one hand, they will have, once this COVID- 19 crisis passes, several months more to train, and on the other, because Spain has not yet classified the country, so they can prepare much better the regatta that remains of selection after the cancellation of the World Cup Series of Genoa scheduled for the end of April.

This means that Alex Muscat, Joan Cardona, Pablo Guitián or Víctor Gorostegui, for naming the regatists who in the last Olympic (four-year period between JJ.OO) have been in the first row of the Finn class in Spain, will have greater chance of classifying the country in the race decided by the World Sailing, and at the same time try each of them to get the only place in a particular way that is free.