Since I am in use of reason, I do not remember an Olympic selection without controversy, of greater or lesser scale; but at this point of the season and a few months for the Olympic Games to some extent it is normal that tensions between regatists, many of them having become not only partners, but also friends, and the Federation.

The fact that only one crew can go by country and class, one of the great and historic failures in this sport, makes them stay out of the Olympic citations crews and regatists that could well fight for medals and diplomas, but it is one of the great gaps of this sport, and it does not have many signs of change.

However, the degree of tension that has been experienced in this Olympic selection shines the sperm. I imagine that now with the Internet and social networks it makes everything more magnified and here they think not only those involved, but it does so up to the tea, with comments published on social networks worthy of psychological and in some case even psychiatric studies. What has been read, in some cases, is to cry out.

Here everyone thinks and gives their version in the light of the wind that blows. Politicians, in their electoral interest, have set out to give versions of what they were told by one or the other without contrasting further, especially those at the regional and local levels, who defend their potential voters by staying in short-sighted localisms and regionalisms. I have come to read barbarians of the caliber that there have been "racist" attitudes on the part of the Federation Board of Directors. This is the political level we have in this country. And to avoid suspicion, I don't give any concrete example. I'm just generalizing.

The second part is that it has been left out of the selection has threatened to take legal action. If I'm not wrong, it's in the only sport that an Olympic team is threatened to be sent to court. Imagine that Del Bosque when he does not select a player, even if he has scored 30 goals in a season, is reported to a court. Or a referee who has pounded a penalty by a few hands outside the area received a civil suit. In football it is clear, who goes to ordinary justice, is removed from the license either a club or a football player. I'm sure if it was applied in the candle, more than one would be thought twice. And it is also clear that going to court means that the so-called resolution will come closer to the 2020 Games than 2016.

Maybe we should go to what football does, pick a finger, and the problems of whether it puts this or puts the other, or whether it is interpretable or not, were over in the Guide. Technical decision and point. Then they'd say these are going because they're friends of I don't know who. Everything can be fair or unfair depending on the glass you look at. And technical-sports decisions, however unfair they may or may seem, must be respected. If here the question is to complain.

It is clear that in view of the next Olympic selection for Tokyo 2020, with the experience gained this time, to whom it is incumbent to send, we hope that they have taken note of what is happening and leave the selection system well tied. And if it has to be a direct choice it is.

Jaume Soler
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