Fernando Alarza shows his letters openly before the FETRI

After his participation last weekend in the Triathlon World Series of Madrid, the newspaper País has published a story, where Fernando Alarza He makes public his discomfort with the Spanish Triathlon Federation.

 

 

Fernando who competed a month and a half ago in San Diego (California), had afford the trip on your own, which cost him 1.700 euros that he got thanks to his sponsors. 

 

"The federation pays nothing", Says Alarza, who currently lives a scholarship in the Blume, in whose facilities he trains. "No trips, no scholarships, no coaches."

 

This weekend, Fernando Alarza, who competed in the World Series event in Madrid in which he had to retire injured, had a collision with the federation for the federative claim that the triathletes have to carry publicity of the FETRI in the official coveralls, leaving the private sponsors of the athletes in a secondary place,

 

"We are signing contracts with triathletes to allow their private advertising to take place when they compete with Spain", Explained last Thursday Jose Hidalgo, president of the Spanish federation, who took advantage of the press conference prior to the Madrid test to make public signatures with Mola and Gómez Noya.

 

"But the federation marginalized me and did not offer me the contract," Alarza emphasizes. "10 days ago, when I was shown the draft, I asked if it was a joke. They wanted that practically in all the international competitions their sponsors they ate the best spaces. And they did not understand that if I took mine away, nobody would pay me anything, and how could I compete then? So, since I did not sign any contract, I decided to use my own monkey in Madrid, and not the one that the federation passed me, which I saw as an enclosure. "

 

While Alarza is thinking of leaving the Blume given the poisoned atmosphere that is breathed since in the federal elections the best triathletes and their coaches decided to support the opposition candidate, finally defeated by Hidalgo, Mario Mola ya He made the decision to leave Madrid and Spain before 2012 ended.

 

The Balearic triathlete, currently third in the World Cup classification led by Gómez Noya, sought a new coach, the Canadian Joel Filliol, and was established during the winter in the very hot city of Clermont, next to Orlando, Florida, where great elite athletes are trained, such as the American sprinter Tyson Gay.

 

"I have to pay for everything I, travel, hotels, coach, of course, and thanks to my sponsors I can, "says Mola, already with Olympic experience in London. "Now, we will establish the entire Filliol group in Banyoles."

 

The terms of Mola's proposed contract with the federation are not known, but the Spaniard did sign it. Alarza does not know what will happen from now on. “But sometimes I have the feeling that I am being teased. They give you their publicity and tell you, 'as you run through Spain, do this for the federation, "he says. "And I feel more Spanish than anyone, but the one who pays me is not the federation."

The original article can be found at this link:

http://deportes.elpais.com/deportes/2013/06/05/actualidad/1370459673_377604.html

 

The FETRI, has published a statement on its website, where it explains its policy on uniformity and some issues discussed in the El Pais article.

The press release can be found at the following link:

http://www.triatlon.org/web/ver_noticia_12.asp?Id_noticia=759&Titulo_not=NOTA+ACLARATORIA