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Javier Villamayor: “Tarragona is clearly a Mediterranean city with a Mediterranean mood”
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Mediterranean Ring sees first activity in run-up to opening of Tarragona Games
Archers and swimmers begin using sporting facilities on Friday morning as workers add finishing touches
Tarragona welcomes first athletes on eve of Mediterranean Games
Participants begin arriving in Mediterranean Village on Wednesday, with major sporting event to start on Friday
Workers put finishing touches with days until Mediterranean Games begin
Tarragona makes final preparations with international sporting event due to begin on June 22
140 young volunteers to join Tarragona’s Mediterranean Games including refugees
Aged between 17 and 30, the helpers in the upcoming sporting event are from 25 countries
Tarragona Mediterranean Games will have to wait until 2018
On the 15th of October 2011 the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games (ICMG) chose Tarragona as the city to host the Games in 2017. In this way Tarragona, in southern Catalonia, culminated its quest for the event, dating back to 2007. An unexpected turn, though, has now obliged the postponement of the Games for a year. The cause of such a measure is, according to the President of the ICMG, Amar Addadi, the “financial implications” deriving from the “10 months of deadlock” over the formation of the Spanish Government, which affected the “sporting activities and the preparation of the Tarragona Games”. The organisation has only received half of the €20 million expected from sponsorship and Spanish Government arrears owed to the project total €12 million. Hence, and in light of the economic climate, the Committee has decided to postpone the event, an unprecedented measure.