Today starts June 27 European Canoe Championships 2007 in Pontevedra. Included an article from Diario de Pontevedra:
"The curtain rises at the European Championship canoeing what is the same to one of the most important sporting competitions has been Pontevedra in the last two decades.
The recently opened sports complex Pontillón Or do Castro will host the opening ceremony, from eight o'clock in the afternoon. An act which was initially planned for the plaza do Teucer.
The event will take place at the main dock, ski tower Verducido track and with the presence of the highest international federal authorities, the president of the ECA (European Canoe Federation), Albert Woods, and the ICF, Ulrich Feldhoff, who will be accompanied by Secretary of State for Sport, Jaime Lissavetzky, the Regional Minister Culture and Sports of the Xunta de Galicia, Ánxela Bugallo and the Mayor of Pontevedra Miguel Fernández Anxo Lords. With these exercise hosted by the President of the RFEP, Santiago Sanmamed.
The event will be 45 minutes long. The group Freylekhs Galician folk music, author of the official music Pontevedra European Championship 2007, will be responsible for opening the event to continue with the parade of the standard bearers of the participating countries and will continue with speeches by the authorities under the protocol provided by ACE, as reported by the press office of the European. The mayor of Pontevedra be the first to speak, then take the I call on the Regional Minister of Sports, which will give way to Secretary of State, speaking as chairman of the organizing committee, to finish speaking the President of the ECA, which will be responsible declare open the championship. The opening will conclude with the performance of folk dance group Celme Pontevedra. The standard bearer of the national team will Ceuta Isabel Contreras, one of the senior national team youth. "
