The emeritus does not participate in this Sunday’s regatta nor attend the awards ceremony, after guaranteeing the title of the Spanish League of the 6 Meter class on Saturday
Juan Carlos I has abandoned Sanxenxo on this Sunday morning heading to the Vigo airport to head to Victoria.
Thus, minutes before 10:45 a.m. the king emeritus He left Pedro Campos’ house, sitting in the passenger seat, and greeted the few people who were waiting for him, to whom he blew a goodbye kiss.
In Vigo take a private plane to Vitoria. On this visit the king emeritus spent seven days in Sanxenxo and although there is still a regatta on this day, the former head of state does not participate. With his victory in the first race on Saturday, victory in the Spanish League of the 6 Meter class was mathematically assured, a trophy that he does not collect, therefore, in the afternoon ceremony this Sunday.
Yes he attended on Saturday night in a dinner with all the crews at the Real Club Náutico de Sanxeneo (RCNS). King Juan Carlos thanked the journalists for their presence at the main entrance, where this Sunday the Barceló Challenge awards will be presented, without his presence.
“Thank you for being here in the cold,” declared the emeritus upon his arrival at the RCNS to attend the final dinner of the season on Saturday night, where he was surrounded by his friends, among them the president of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Alejandro Blanco.
The Galician is one of the guests of honor for the awards ceremony, thus remembering that the 6 Meter class was Olympic from the 1908 Olympic Games in London until the Olympic Games. 1952 in Helsinki.
The ‘Bribón’, skippered by Juan Carlos, expanded his record this Saturday with the title of Spanish champion of the 6 meter Leagues after winning the first and only round that could be played on the first day of the Barceló Challenge.