On Friday Gómez Noya can be awarded the Prince of Asturias sports 2011

Javier Gómez Noya, Marta Domínguez and the Ethiopian athlete Gebreselassie are among the 19 candidates for the Prince of Asturias of Sports 2011, which will be decided on Friday in Oviedo
The meeting of the Jury in charge of awarding the Prize will take place in Oviedo on September 1 and 2, as reported by the Foundation.
The Prince of Asturias Awards are intended, according to the Statutes of the Foundation, to reward “scientific, technical, cultural, social and human work carried out by people, institutions, groups of people or institutions at the international level.”
Within this spirit, candidates for the Prince of Asturias Sports Award may be those who, “in addition to the exemplary nature of their life and work, have achieved new goals in man's struggle to improve himself and contributed with their efforts, in an extraordinary manner, to the improvement, cultivation, promotion or dissemination of sports.”
To this Prize opt for a total of 19 candidacies from Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, United States, Ethiopia, France, Italy, Lebanon, Dominican Republic, United Kingdom and Spain.
El Prize is endowed with fifty thousand euros, the sculpture created and expressly donated by Joan Miró for these awards, a diploma and an accrediting badge.
The members of the Jury will hold a first meeting with the media at 16.30:1 p.m. on Thursday, September XNUMX, in the Covadonga Room of the Hotel (Chapel), immediately before its formal constitution and the beginning of its deliberations.
Once established, they will elect their president from among their members. The secretary of the Jury is appointed by the Foundation. The ruling will be made public at 12.00:2 p.m. on Friday, day XNUMX, in the Covadonga Hall.
Source: .as.com