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- Feb 20, 2014
Well, Poland is a 38 mln people and much colder country than Spain and we have only 15 Ice rinks that are available all year... And we had World and European medalists in the past in FS and we still have some succes in Short Track and Speed Skating. So the number of ice rinks in Spain that is super warm country makes no impression on me At least Spain have excuse for being like that! And rather than lack of Ice rinks, it's more about winter sport being so little popular in Spain, there weren't high level coaches probably too. He's just true exception of Spain which is great in many summer sports, but not winter ones
I agree that it's more about winter sport being less popular there. Because in general Spain is a warm country but the Northern part of it can be very cold in the winter, and those parts are the most economically developed ones in the whole country. So financially I am sure they could build more rinks if they wanted.
I hope that with the success of Javier this could change in the future.