The CEO of Emirates Team New Zealand and organizer of the 2024 Copa del América, Grant Daltonpredicted this Wednesday that this sailing competition will return to Barcelona “the emotion” left by the 1992 Olympic Games. “If we do it collectively, it is a real possibility,” he said.
This is how Dalton spoke at a round table about the moment in Barcelona that he shared with the first deputy mayor of the city, James Collbonithe president of the Port, Damia Calvetand the president of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Alexander White.
dalton said he remembers Freddie Mercury singing the song of those Olympic Games or to Antonio Rebollo shooting the arrow that lit the cauldron and that “ended up in a neighbor’s house,” he said ironically.
“The population can be mobilized to be part of this”he said in reference to the America’s Cup and after praising the city’s commitment to the blue economy and the infrastructures it already has. dalton He stressed that Barcelona will be the first city to host the Olympic Games and the America’s Cup and highlighted the “legacy” that it will leave in the local economy.