Basketball
They consider an incongruity that a distinction is made between school license and federal license when marking the restriction
The Gipuzkoan basketball federation, together with its homonyms in Alava and Bizkaia and in turn with the Basque Federation, have shown their absolute “disagreement” through a statement, with the new measures adopted by the Basque Government to prohibit the practice of basketball. both school and federated basketball. “We understand the circumstances and the seriousness of the situation, but we do not share this measure that, once again, harms the little ones,” begins the letter written by the FGB. «During the almost 24 months of the pandemic that we have, sports clubs, both basketball and other sports in the Basque Country, have taken a step forward by making a significant effort to raise awareness, on the one hand, and to adapt to the environment and the circumstances on the other, allocating economic and human resources to ensure that sport is a safe environment for everyone, something that we believe has been achieved “, it is explained from the main basketball entity in the territory. The statement emphasizes that the response of the institutions, when the incidence and data of infections have not accompanied, has always been the same: interrupt competitions with school sports licenses, but “without proving to be an effective and necessary measure , adding the incongruity of the fact that they differentiate between school licenses and federal licenses when marking the restriction, which leads us to live in the incomprehensible scenario that many boys and girls cannot compete but see themselves as companions and friends. their own age they can do it. ” This makes it very difficult for the federations to understand the position adopted by the institutions and even more difficult to explain it to the children themselves.
The three basketball federations, plus the autonomous body, ask the institutions to “reconsider” the measures to be taken and return to a competition scenario, where it has been shown that the incidence and contagions are zero and that sport helps in these ages to overcome the obstacles that the pandemic has caused in society.
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