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A regular programs organized every year the Department of Sports, new this year, as the booming sports bet is added in the case of beach volleyball, for which he is already planning to build a track in Pearl District
The mayor of Sports, Diego Ortega, presented Tuesday campaign for the Department 2014/2015 this course, with a range that includes more than 34 types of targeted activities to meet the demand of 32,000 users annually use municipal services and facilities, for which the council has the support of organizations and sports clubs.
So, sports programs direct management who have been running for years, such as aerobics, gerontogimnasia, tennis, gymnastics and swimming, with a total of 300 schools for children and 150 for adults, and programs of indirect management will be developed through promotion agreements, such as the 37 agreements with various entities for education and sports training, the agreement with the Yacht Club or the 22 agreements with grassroots football clubs.
But where the council has placed the emphasis is on new developments planned for this year, responding to the demand of citizens and fashions.
It is the case of the paddle, zumba, wrestling, boxing, fencing, yoga or beach volleyball.
With respect to the latter, Ortega announced that the municipal officers are already working on a project to build a beach volleyball court and a handball beach land located behind the pavilion Table Tennis Pearl District.
On the other hand, also continue the special campaigns aimed at schools, such as School Age Sports, Football League or the ADE based program that brings athletes to schools, and collaboration with the Ministry of Health in developing the Active Program, which encourages the substitution of drugs by physical and sporting activity, where possible.
Diego Ortega also alluded to the human resources available to the Department to carry out this program, 130 local technicians, to which must be added to bring the various sports entities that collaborate in the promotion of grassroots sports and facilities, around 40 scattered throughout the municipality. Cartagena has 409,723 square meters of sports facilities and 10,000 weekly users, which makes the sport in Cartagena a benchmark of identification with the city and its quality of life, assured the mayor.
To support this statement, Ortega recalled other data, in which the sport is associated with tourism and is the 200 sporting events that the city hosts each year, some of them of great significance, as the Route of the Strengths, Championship Sail to Spain or World Championship Gymnastics group, attracting an average of 24,000 people.
According to the councilor, the rise of athletics through fun runs, and water sports are a clear indicator of the evolution of the sport in the city.
Now, Diego Ortega continued, the idea is to continue in this line and open others in far less present in Cartagena disciplines, are working to bring a European championship Musculature and Fitness, following the recent success of the national which was held at the Central Pavilion, and also want the European Boxing is held here, big events more attractive to our city.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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