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The best national skaters test the new La Nucía skatepark

 

The Spanish National Skate Team has held a 6-day concentration in La Nucía to prepare for the World Skateboarding Tour 2024 in Dubai, which will take place from February 25 to March 10 in the capital of the Arab Emirates. In this way, the new La Nucía skate park was “premiered” for the first time as a Skate Technology Centre of the Royal Spanish Skating Federation , after the agreement signed between the federation and the City Council at the COE .

 

Among those concentrated, Naia Laso stands out , fifth classified in the last world championship, and Danny León , 9th in the Tokyo Olympic Games and current number 16 in the world park ranking.

 

The best national skaters have trained in the new skate park because it is very similar to the one they will find in Dubai at the end of the month. These six skaters : Gadea Moja , Egoitz Bijuesca , Peio González , Naia Laso, Ceci Rendueles and Danny León, have tested the new skate park , which will be completely finished and open next March. All of them have been called up by coach Alain Goikoetxea for the “Pro Tour de Park” in Dubai.

 

Bernabé Cano , mayor of La Nucía and Sergio Villalba , Councilor for Sports, visited the riders on their last day of training, to wish them luck for their upcoming international competitions, in which qualification for Paris 2024 will be played . 

 

This concentration of the National Skate Team has been organised by the Royal Spanish Skating Federation (RFEP), as “La Nucía, City of Sports” , National Skate Technique Centre since last January.

 

“Present and future of skateboarding”

“Two weeks ago we signed an agreement with the Skating Federation for this new skate park to be a National Technique Centre and now we have skaters from the National Team training in it and testing it to iron out some things. They are the present and future of national skateboarding. This skate park is almost finished and will open its doors in March, but the best national skaters have wanted to try it, since it is a facility very similar to the one in Dubai, where they will compete at the end of the month. Many of them have the possibility of going to the Paris Olympics, but to do so they need to obtain good results. Their training here has created an expectation and there are already riders from all over the world asking when it opens its doors to come and train in La Nucía, which With this new skate park it will become a benchmark in this sport internationally,”commented Bernabé Cano , mayor of La Nucía.

 

Best national skaters 

The national skaters are preparing the international competition in Dubai on February 25, where they will compete to qualify for the pre-Olympic tournaments, to obtain qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Among those concentrated, Naia Laso stands out, fifth classified in the last championship of the world and Danny León , Olympian in Tokyo and current number 16 in the world ranking.

 

The skaters who have participated in this 6-day mini stage in La Nucía occupy the following positions in the world ranking for the Olympic Games: Gadea Moja (33rd), Egoitz Bijuesca (39th), Peio González (34th), Naia Laso (10th ), Ceci Rendueles (45th) and Danny León (16th). Hence the importance of scoring points in Dubai since it is the last test that is part of the first phase of Olympic qualification . When Dubai ends, the best skaters in the ranking, with a maximum of 6 per country, will have access to compete in the final Olympic qualification phase, which will be held in two locations; Shanghai (May 16-19) and Budapest (June 20-23). 

 

At the Paris Olympic Games, there will be 44 skaters participating in each event, 22 in men's Park and 22 in women's Park , with a maximum of three athletes per country. Two of these twenty-two places will be for the host country and for Plaza de Universalidad.