The King will tomorrow visit Desafío and the dock, that will be called Royal Navy Juan Carlos I
The Real House will tomorrow show once again its unconditional and enthusiastic support the America Glass. The King will visit the dock, where he will give a “inaugural stroll” by the future navy that will indeed take its name, as the mayoress confirmed yesterday Barber, when spreading the answer by letter of the approval that this new urban space denominates Marine Real Juan from now on Carlos I.
The intention is that the monarch presides over the launching of one of the boats of Spanish Desafío. Barber showed her gratefulness to the Real House and the King to have accepted who its name is “in the prettiest work and of more future of Valencia”, a space that, according to the mayoress, will suppose the “definitive entailment” of this city with the sea and the will “to make of the dock tourist destiny of Valencia”, in reference to the commercial uses and of leisure that will be in this part of the city as of 2007.
The "Bribón" Tp52, supervised by SM The King Juan Carlos, in the Freixenet.
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The competition in the division "reigns", the IMS Open, there will come marked by the presence of two of the top units of the circuit Bretiling Med Cup 2006 of the spectacular class Transpac 52: the "Bribon" (RCN Barcelona), of the outfitter Jose Cusí, and that will be patroneado for SM The King Juan Carlos and the "Cristabella" (RCN Palm), of John Cook, that as all the divisions IMS will compete on Saturday and Sunday.
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Antonio Gamoneda gains XV the Prize Queen Sofía of Latin American Poetry
The writer Antonio Gamoneda (Oviedo, 1931) has been awarded today with XV the Prize Queen Sofía de Latin American Poesía, jointly summoned by National Patrimony and the University of Salamanca.
… Queen Sofía will give this distinction in a solemn ceremony in the hall Columns of the Real Palace of Madrid, during the last trimester of the year. In addition to a diploma and the economic dowry (42,100 euros), comprises of this prize the edition of an anthological poemario of the awarded one, with a study and notes in charge of an outstanding professor of Literature of the University of Salamanca.
Queen Sofia of Spain receives flowers from a group of school children near the entrance of the Teatro Principal, where the King and Queen of Spain will preside over a celebration of World Red Cross Day and the Average Red Moon.
The base of the Spanish Challenge will be today the stage of the botadura of the new one ESP-88, in a ceremony that will be presided by the King Juan Carlos, such and sincethere improved on Tuesday The Levant-EMV. After the act, to which he comes in private visit, the monarch will cross with a launch the new dock and, once in the field of ditches, will embark in the ESP-65 to compete (the position will occupy 18, that is to say destined to the guest) with the Spanish team opposite to the Asian ones of the China Team. It will be the second occasion in little more than two months that the monarch visits the dock since last March 15 accompanied of the Queen, he overflew the zone. Now, Juan Carlos I will verify since there has stayed the stage of a competition for which he bid from the beginning and which he does not hesitate to endorse constant.
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The King will be today crew member 18 of the new boat of Spanish Desafío, ESP 88
Spanish Desafío 2007 made today, with the presence of king Juan Carlos, launching of its new boat, the ESP 88, with which the equipment that it leads Agustín Zulueta trusts becoming one of most competitive of the thirtieth second edition of the Glass of the America that will be disputed in 2007 in Valencia.
The act they attended, among others, the minister of Public Administrations, Jordi Seville, the president of the Generalitat, Francisco Camps, and the mayoress of Valencia, Rita Barberá; the Secretary of State for Deporte, Jaime Lissavetzky, Julio of Spain, president of Valencian Cortes, Antoni Bernabé, delegate of the Government in the Valencian Comunitat, or Alexander Font de Mora, to conseller of Culture, Education and Deportes. The King arrived at the last Port of eleven Valencia and average in the morning and visited the base of Spanish Desafío accompanied by Ignacio Sanchez Gallant, president of Spanish Desafío, and Agustín Zulueta, chief of a main directorate of the equipment, who exerted of hosts and they taught the different facilities to him.
Next, next to the new boat, that took hides its inferior part, he took place his official presentation that came preceded from the parliaments of the different present authorities and included the blessing with water of the sea of Esteban Escudero Torres, auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Valencia.
The King presided over the launching of new Spanish Challenge 2007
Spanish Desafío 2007 has made east Friday, with the presence of king Juan Carlos, launching of its new boat, the ESP 88, with which the equipment that it leads Agustín Zulueta trusts becoming one of most competitive of XXXII the edition of the Glass of the America that will be disputed in 2007 in Valencia.
The Spanish Challenge boot the new ship before the Spanish King El Desafío 2007 realized, with the presence of the King Juan Carlos, the botadura of the new ship, the ESP 88, with which the team that Agustín Zulueta leads counts on turning into one of the most competitive of the trigésimo the second edition of the America´s cup.
1 - Spain's King Juan Carlos (L) shakes hand with Polish Karol Jablonski, skipper of America's Cup Challenger Desafio Espanol 2007, after the third flight of their match race against China Team during the second day of the Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 10 in Valencia, eastern Spain, May 12, 2006. The races in Act 10 will count towards a bonus point system leading up to the 32nd America's Cup in 2007.
2 - Spain's King Juan Carlos (C) waves to crew members of America's Cup Challenger Desafio Espanol 2007 after the third flight of their match race against China Team during the second day of the Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 10 in Valencia, eastern Spain, May 12, 2006.
The King and Zapatero will represent to the final Barcelona - Arsenal of Paris
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The King don Juan Carlos will represent to the final of the League of Champions of football that will face to the FC Barcelona and the Arsenal, which will be disputed next Wednesday, the 17th of May (20:45 hours) in the Stadium of Saint-Dennis's France, informed today the Royal Household.
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Desafío gains the two regatas of the day After the presentation, the King, adorned with the official clothes of Desafío like the rest of guests, raised in a rubber dinghy and visited the works that are being made in the Port of Valencia, including the emblematic building “Veles and Vents”. Later, he was transferred to ESP 65 to participate like crew member 18 in the regata that faced Spanish Desafío and China Team in the second day of Act 10.
Spanish Desafío 2007 gained the two regatas that disputed in the second day of Act 10 of the Glass of America although it did it helped, partly, by the failures which they underwent China Team and the Rossa Moon, one of the most powerful equipment of the competition. In these pre-regatas, the Rossa Moon releases a boat adapted already to the version 5. under whose rules the competition in 2007 will be disputed.
Don Juan Carlos navigates of crew member 18 before the China Team in an incomplete ditch The king Juan Carlos gave luck yesterday to the Spanish Challenge. The Monarch was raised to the ship the day in which two victories of a tacada were obtained. Don Juan Carlos was in the victory before the Chinese union in a ditch that finished before hour when the Asian ship broke a piece of the sailboat. Later he left to Barcelona.
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After expiring with all the acts that had him prepared in land, the king Juan Carlos took the suit and the tie from himself and was raised to a ship of assistance of the Challenge to join to the ditch. It is what he likes. To sail. They had to hurry up in order that he was expiring with all the foreseen acts and, then, to take him to any career to the field of ditches of The Saler, where he was waiting for the Spanish crew to compete in the first clash of the day.
The Monarch was taking the same clothes that the crew and, though on having risen to the ship he had to put on an article of another color to differ, to the being 18 crew member, did not change his clothes and to sail with the colors whitly and green of the Challenge. It yes, the Monarch went out to the sea with his red cap, it of always, which he uses when patronea his Bribón. It is the way of distinguishing it in the water.(...)
After finishing the ditch the King stooped the ship and was taken to one of the guests' sailboats of the Challenge. Of there he left to Barcelona, where from today he will return to be raised to a ship. But this time instead of going of invited crew member will be the boss of the Bribon, a TP-52, in the ditch Freixenet.
The good time has come and, with it, the season of ditches, to which so made keen it is the royal family. Though there is foreseen the participation of the prince Felipe on board of the Aifos, at the moment he has been only the King who has released the new campaign. The monarch botó on Friday in the port of Valencia the ship that in 2007 will represent to Spain in the Cup America of wind for then enrolarse as crew member number 18, which is since the guest of honor is known in nautical terms, on board of the Spanish Challenge. But up to yesterday he did not have the satisfaction of returning to take the control of the Bribon.(...)
But not only the wid has brought the King to Barcelona, also his great interest has done it for the F-1. This midday, don Juan Carlos will not be on board of his particular fireball, but he will occupy Montmeló's platform in a career that promises after yesterday Fernando Alonso should obtain the pole position. And he will be dependent also on the motorcycles because another Spanish to the one that applauds, Dani Pedrosa, also consiguio a pole, the first one in Motorcycle GP of the Catalan, in the circuit of Shanghai.