GLRF visits Barcelona and Madrid for Eurogames 2008 preview

GLRF Executive Director Brian Todd traveled to Barcelona on 27 Feb to preview the rowing facilities and options available to rowers and for a regatta planned for the Eurogames 2008. The trip coincided with the upcoming annual general assembly of the European Gay and Lesbian Sports Federation (EGLSF) scheduled to convene 02 - 04 Mar in Madrid. EGSLF sponsors the Eurogames events and is comprised of individual and regional multi-sport organizations.

GLRF toured Barcelona, took both the bus and train to the proposed rowing facility in Castelldelfels, and met with the sports director of the Eurogames 2008 organizing committee as well as the director of the rowing basin. We visited the boathouse at the basin as well as the Royal Maritime Yacht Club in the old harbor of Barcelona where we were able to speak at length with the rowing division director. A report on the rowing facilities and options will be presented to the GLRF European rowing community later in the year.

GLRF then traveled to Madrid to attend the annual meeting of EGLSF. Our presence at the EGLSF annual general assembly helps to highlight the community connectivity effect that GLRF can bring to rowers who row in their own clubs but desire to belong to a gay and lesbian city multi-sports team. GLRF can provide the local connected community without creating a need to form a separate club. During the weekend, we met with some of executive committee members of Panteres Grogues, the sponsor sports club for Eurogames 2008 , as well as members of the organizing committee of Eurogames 2008, and briefed them on our findings and observations.