Olympic Games Barcelona 92 were very important
for Spain but since we were not able to be there, we asked to two people, Federico
in Barcelona and Jesús in Madrid to tell us about it.
The aim of this text is to show and describe
the results of the interviews that we did to our narrators.
Firstly, we will present what the narrators
told us about the changes in the security measures, the information in the
media, the attitude of people towards sport and the event, internationalization
of Barcelona or any changes and interesting facts that they remembered. Then,
we will analyse this information and, finally, compare the differences and
similarities between the perceptions, opinions and experiences of our narrators
during the Olympics.
According to the first topic, the security
measures, Federico told us there were lots of security guards to avoid any
terrorist problem as it has happened in other Olympics, for example Montreal. He
also praised the work of volunteers who helped in the organization and who "became into a living example for the next Olympics". Jesús
explained us that some neighbourhoods were rehabilitated in order to eliminate
certain problems such as drugs, robberies, etc, "There were some shifts relocation of certain neighborhoods because they were going to build be Olympic area". He also agreed that because of
this global event there were many security guards. As we can see both of them
coincide that the security measures were very important in Barcelona as well in
Madrid.
Related to the information in the media,
Federico and Jesús said that Olympics Games were shown all day long,
explaining the Spanish medals and records, the inauguration of stadiums, the
intro of the Olympics… in their own words; "It was continuous centre of attention in the TV, radio, newspapers...". Jesús also told us that the AVE launching began in those days.
When they were asked about the attitude of
people they both agreed that population in Spain got more interested in different sports and started practicing them in a
more natural way. This was because Spanish athletes were doing it very well and
people were very enthusiastic. "Sport began to be a more ordinary thing to do", Federico said and Jesús also told us "
There were many international visitors according to our interviewees but mostly concentrated in Barcelona, which became into “the city of the World”, as Federico
said. Besides many foreigners came to live to Barcelona. On the other hand
Jesus, in Madrid, did not notice the presence of too many international
visitors.
Finally, we asked them to tell us about any
personal experience or opinion that they had, apart from the questions we had
done before. Jesús explained "as a curiosity at work level, in the device of gas it was burning in the Olympic torch, one of the teams that regulated gas inlet was the company where I work". On the other hand, Federico said that
he noticed a huge change in the city of Barcelona, it was “a New Barcelona”,
where the Olympic Harbour was built up from a problematic and poor
neighbourhood, new roads and streets were established, such as the “Cinturón
de Ronda”, and the construction of the Tividavo’s tunnel was finished
after more than 20 years. It is curious that our narrators both agreed that the
inauguration of the Olympics with Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé was
amazing and astonishing; "Two worlds, modern and classic, came together for this event".
Here you can listen to Federico's interview:
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