Cortegada will have to wait in mid-September (Photo Gonzalo Pamies)

The Xeral Secretariat for or Sport of the Xunta of Galicia decided this noon to make public a notice derived from the serious situation that we are living in the province of Ourense because of the forest fires. In the face of the announcement of the Iberian Open of Nautical Skiing, Wakeboard and Wakesurf as the opening of the Abanca Week for this weekend, both the Xunta of Galicia and the sports leaders of the Ourense Depession, connected in the middle of Tuesday to learn the views of the Abanca Week itself, as well as the participating clubs and the Galician Federation of Nautical Skiing. From the very first moment, the Secretary General of the Abanca Manuel Pedro Seoane Week and the federal president Jacobo Pereira, made themselves available to these institutions, supporting without fissures the postponement of the Championship, starting a conference of contacts to communicate to the close to a hundred Riders of Spain and Portugal, who were attentive to a possible change to the next September of the competition.

The need for this measure, which has already been confirmed, has been given that the professionals coordinated to stop this environmental tragedy have considered it appropriate to have completely free the channels of the rivers, and especially that of the Miño. The response of all athletes has been very positive, and it should be noted that the registered Riders have announced that they will be in Galicia, when the situation improves. This is why the Abanca Week is already the first event planned on September 13 and 14 in the waters of the Ria de Vigo, the Iberian Championship of the Ilca Olympic Class, by the hand of the Canido Maritime Club... and possibly later the Cortegada competition will be held.