Asunción Loriente, was a president on a chair attached...

Piragüism and rowing... rowing and piragüism first brothers... the Piragüism lived the motion of censorship was led by an Asturian against an Andalusian, on the rowing it is an Andalusian who wants to overthrow an Asturian

The rowing is considered the world's oldest irrigated sport... according to existing documents dates back to 1793. This sport was also the first to form its international federation: under the name of the FISA in 1892.

It is also one of the few founding sports of the Modern Olympics, as it was included in the programming of Athens 1896... and its federation at the Spanish level is of the largest single: Joan Camps is its first democratically elected president in 1918.

Piragüism is not recognized as Olympic until forty years later... in 1936 at the JJOO in Berlin, disconnecting from the rowing at the federal level already in 1959.

In the last few months at political-sports level, the situations in both federations have been extremely similar, but with essential nuances regarding the forced democratic game...

On November 17, a very large group of presidents, sportsmen and technicians who represented a sufficient majority, led by the Asturian Javier Hernanz, managed to win a motion of censorship to the Andalusian Pedro Pablo Barros... behind the stage, among others... President Galician Alfredo Bea, as the leader in the Galician rowing, who is the number of licenses of this sport...

The Herranz people said that, in their view, the directive that Barros presided over lacked representativeness, because it did not have sufficient support, both from relevant federations and in number of licences.

The Andalusian called the debate on the motion, as the canons command, and on Wednesday, November, in the capital of Spain... in the very Auditorium Alfredo Goyeneche, of the Spanish Olympic Committee... with all the facilities for the elected Assemblyists to attend... there was a democratic relief... without dirty play, without insults, without disqualifications, with respect... With DEMOCRACY SIMPLELY...

In the rowing is an Andalusian, the Malagasy José Agustín Gomez-Raggio, who calls for the cessation of an asturian, of Asunción Loriente... and does so from a motion of censorship that has been supported by the 75 by the Spanish rowing... with very clear data, of the support of 6 autonomous presidents of the 11 existing, 12 of the 14 athletes... in the final analysis of 53 of the 75 assembly... has also the support of the Galician president, of Manuel Seijas... who is one of the most loved and respected presidents, for no less than four decades, of his immense work.

But here, in addition to the anecdotal nuances we have reported... there is something very serious and must be studied by the High Council of Sports... because it is neither reasonable, nor of common sense and is likely to incur some illegality.

The President has made use of all the possible tools, with the sole purpose of hindering the democratic rights of the Assemblies: to try not to give the vote valid for not having paid her licenses at the beginning of January... to take out all the dirty personal types that are arguable about the candidate or of those who support it, demonstrating that the elegance and fair play is something that does not go with her... to appeal to her status as a woman accusing all those who are not in their ranks... and since what has broken the deck is to call the discussion of the motion to 700 km of the French headquarters in the first time of the city, and not to exercise the economic damage to the one of the one of the one of the one of the other of the political parties in the one of the one of the French government.

It is a real shame, that he democratically disqualifies her and defines her as president... so the Spanish rowing wants her to leave.

Manuel Pedro Seoane
Digital Nautical Editor