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The 9th edition of the European Athletics Championships Barcelona 2010 Newsletter is now available on this website

The presence of the Barcelona 2010 mini-stadium has been one of the surprises of the Festival this year. The promotion of the event has been finished with a big success

Tomàs Molina's predictions for July 2010 can not be any more promising. The trendy man on the air in Catalonia believes the European Championships in Barcelona will be a great success. Today he has been in the Children's Festival

They are two of the most important Catalan athletes today and they passed by the Children’s Festival to celebrate their successes in the Barcelona San Silvestre race

Goodbye to 2008 and time for the assessment of the season. In Barcelona 2010 there is no time to take a break. Today B10 will be present in the Children´s Festival and in La Cursa dels Nassos as well

The year 2008 is already part of the history. The last great race celebrated in Barcelona has been La Cursa dels Nassos. B10 has had a very important role in it because this competition was part of its strategic plans for the promotion of the event

The Children's festival has already begun. And this year, with the surprise of a small stadium in which boys and girls can show their abilities. Hereu has encouraged them to practise sports in the stand of B10

The mascot of Barcelona 2010 has visited Nani Roma in the CAR of Sant Cugat.The winner of the Dakar 2004 edition spent a long time with Barni before getting immersed in a hot air bubble in order to get used to the temperatures he will have to face

On Saturday December 27th, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the festival, it has been foreseen the visit of the Mayor of Barcelona to the stand the European Athletics Championships Barcelona 2010 has in the Children's festival for its promotional

Everybody wanted to have a photograph taken with Barni. The athletes that are getting trained in Madrid were taken by surprise by Barni in the INEF's athletics tracks. The mascot of B10 never goes unnoticed

Barni has become the leader of the Barcelona 2010 promotional campaign. The latest figures to have been won over by the B10 mascot have been José Montilla, President of the Generalitat, and Nani Roma

Nobody finished the party without a photograph taken with the mascot of Barcelona 2010.The party organised in the headquarters of the federation was (pleasantly) disturbed by the unexpected presence of Barni

In time of recognitions now it has arrived the turn for the best of the year in Spanish athletics: Marta Domínguez and Juan Carlos Higuero. B10 will be with them in the prize-giving ceremony

There is athletics beyond the track and the marathons. In Can Drago Stadium it has just been celebrated a 24 hours event with charity purposes. The mascot of Barcelona 2010 has been present in it

The mascot of Barcelona 2010 has spent 24 hours in Madrid and it has had the opportunity of spreading its message in favour of B10. In the COE it greeted Jaime Lissavetzky and Alejandro Blanco

In an exclusive interview given to Barcelona 2010 newsletter, Isinbayeva says she is very eager to jump in Barcelona, which is a city she knows very well and she has very good remembrances of

Barni´s popularity continues growing. This Sunday in Vilanova he did not only carry out his task on the promotion of Barcelona 2010 but he helped in the handing over of the medals to the male category winners

Odriozola has started a new term as President of the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. In a meeting in Barcelona with the B10 team, the President has made clear what his current most important project is

The most important leader of the Spanish Athletics - he has been in this post since 1989- is in very good shape. Right, after having been re-elected as President of the RFEA, he has begun working. On Monday he will be in Barcelona with B10

The President of the Organising Committee of Barcelona 2010 will be formally reelected tomorrow as President of the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. Odriozola will be the head of Spanish athletics until the end of 2012

The informative phase of B10 reached today the sports delegates in the ten districts of Barcelona. They were all very interested in hearing all the details involved with the organisation of the event

The Olympic finalist in 110 hurdles, Jackson Quiñónez, is training in Lleida with Berlin 2009 and Barcelona 2010 in mind. He likes Barni very much and will work hard to be amongst the best three for this event during B10

The first of the big public tenders to carry out the works in the Olympic Stadium of Montjuïc has a winner: the Catalan company Odeco Electrónica S.A. Most of the works prior to B10 will take place in 2009

The last competition of the year, Saint Sylvester's race, which is well known in Barcelona as "La Cursa dels Nassos", will break all the records this year. It will have Barni, the B10 mascot, by its side

The highest leader of Barcelona 2010 have answered to all of them who share the opinion that after B10 there will not be anything left in the Spanish athletics. He trusts in the future and he suggests different initiatives

Germany has provided some of the great homes of European athletics: Stuttgart, Munich, Berlin... Barni will travel to all of these cities in the second edition of the animated comic

The Spanish long distance runner of Ethiopian origins is the leader of the Spanish male team that will take part this Sunday in the European Cross Country Championships. His main opponent will be the Ukrainian Sergey Lebid

The promotional campaign of Barcelona 2010 goes on in the most important popular races. Today, it has been the turn for one of the most outstanding half marathons in Catalonia, the Mataro's one

Oslo has been the venue for the summit meeting on Athletics for young people, what is very necessary right now. Maria Zapata, deputy director of the Volunteers department of Barcelona 2010, has been present in the conference

The meeting Barcelona 2010 had with Romà Cuyàs in the headquarters of the federation has helped to extend the volunteer mobilisation campaign to the Catalan clubs

600 days left until the opening of Barcelona 2010 and the organisation is working hard, setting the events in Torino and Berlin as primary strategic objectives to spread information about B10 internationally

The mascot of Barcelona 2010 has gone to Badalona to visit the guard player Ricky Rubio during the last days of his convalescence. The big star of the DKV Joventut is about to reappear after having had a surgery due to an injury he had on his right wrist

From today on, it is available the 8th newsletter of the European Athletics Championships Barcelona 2010 December´s edition

Seven Russian athletes suspended for doping could return to the competition and be present in B10 if the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) considers that the ARAF is right. The IAAF wants to maintain the sanction until 2010

Barcelona 2010 has already begun the Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. The first presentation has taken place in Les Cotxeres de Sants. This event wishes to revive the cooperative spirit people lived through in 1992

The B10 General Coordinator will start a series of conferences which will also feature the participation of Sebastian Coe, Horst Schmidt and Heinrich Clausen

As it has already happened in some other races, the President of the B10 Executive Committee, Pere Alcober, will wear the number 2010 on his T-shirt this Sunday during the Jean Bouin race

The two best athletes of the world in the year 2008 have had photographs taken in Montecarlo with Barni, the mascot of B10 as main character and a present given to them by Barcelona 2010

The Andalusian walker, one of the most important ones in the 20km walking race, has decided to jump into a 50km race. He does not know yet in which distance he will participate in Berlin, but without any doubt in B10 he will compete in the 50km race

Barni, the mascot of the European Athletics Championships Barcelona 2010 has been present in the Catalonia´s circuit, in Montmeló, encouraging the pilots who are going to compete this weekend in the 24 Hours Quadis of Barcelona

In the different city councils of the province of Barcelona there is a very big group of polititians and trainers who are fans of athletics, besides some (other) champions from different sports fields. The support given to B10 is really huge

Nacho Gómez-Acebo and Javier Quevedo, two of the most important producers in the sports departmet of TVE, have been assigned to the Executive Committee and to the Organising Committee of Barcelona 2010

Although for the 2012 European Championships there are no candidate cities yet, the 2014 edition has already got some aspiring cities ahead: Zurich and probably Nuremberg

The members of the Organising Committee of Barcelona 2010 already know Barni. The official photograph of all of them with Barni, the mascot of the event, has been taken in the middle of the Olympic Stadium of Montjuic

The Barcelona 2010 Organising Committee met this morning in Montjuïc to discuss some outstanding issues, and they took the opportunity to have their photographs taken with Barni, the Championships’ mascot

Along two intense days, representatives of Barcelona 2010 have attended the World Broadcast Meeting in Berlin. They had meetings with the leaders of Berlin 2009. B10 and TVE will organise the next TV seminar in Barcelona in October 2009

The promotional activity of Barcelona 2010 has led Barni towards the Rellotge building where the offices of Diputació de Barcelona are. The municipalities within the Barcelona´s provincial area support the Championships

The promotion of Barcelona 2010 arrives at the Children’s Festival, where a small stadium will be set up to enable children to practise different athletics disciplines and have fun with Barni, the B10 mascot

Barcelona 2010 will be represented in the coming days in the World Broadcast Meeting, a previous event to the Berlin 2009 World Athletics Championships. In the agenda there will be items related to communication, marketing and promotion

During the whole day, Barni the mascot of Barcelona 2010, has visited the editorial offices of the five sports newspapers there are in Barcelona. A complete "tour de force" in order to make people know the European Athletics Championships

The Generalitat de Catalunya Goverment has emphasised the support it gives to the European Athletics Championships Barcelona 2010 in the meeting Anna Pruna, Seneral Sports Secretary, had with Barni, the mascot of the event

The European Athletics Championships Barcelona 2010 begins today one of its most ambitious projects: the Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. The V from volunteers of B10 is one of the most attractive features of the posters that have been produced

The Barcelona 2010 November Newsletter is now available

The plans of the Spanish athletes have towards coming competitions are taking shape little by little, specially face to Barcelona 2010. Juan Carlos Higuero has assured he will compete in the 1500m and 5000m races in Montjüic

The Volunteer Recruitment Campaign of B10 will start next Monday. At the beginning, people interested in becoming volunteers should be friends of B10, what is the previous step. This can be easily done either by going to www.bcn2010.org or by calling 010

Barcelona 2010 goes out to the street. The event will be present in the half marathons of the province of Barcelona in an ambitious campaign of promotion that starts on Sunday

Barcelona 2010 continues its unstoppable way towards the celebration of the great event. During these days its directors and European Athletics have approved the promotional plan

Barcelona´s City Council has shown on many different occasions the importance it gives to Barcelona 2010. Now it is encouraging all the city districts to join the project

Barcelona has a (big) challenge: to be able to fill the Stadium with fans during the time the European Athletics Championships lasts. To achieve this ambitious objective depends a great deal on an excellent promotional campaign

The organisation opens a public tender for the event’s opening and closing ceremonies

The European Ahletics Convention has finished, the details on the 2009 calendar are already known. The Meeting Ciutat de Barcelona will be celebrated on a very busy weekend

Barni, the mascot of Barcelona 2010, has also captivated the handball players of the FC Barcelona club, with whom it has spent a very pleasant time in the red and blue headquarters

The future of the Olympic Stadium of Montjüic is sure. Pere Alcober has modified the existing plans in order to keep working a stadium that is a referent in the city

All transport companies wanting to participate in the public tender can check the rules set up by the B10 Organising Committee

Amsterdam will become these days the capital of the European Athletics. The Convention of European Athletics will be celebrated there. Barcelona 2010 will be represented by Monica Barra who is its General Coordinator

The Volunteer Recruitment Campaign of Barcelona 2010 is about to begin but before that the aspirants interested in doing it will have to filling in a questionnaire.

After having had his first steps during La Mercè´s popular festivities and its visit to Mayte Martinez in the CAR and to Tamudo and De la Peña in the Espanyol, Barni has met now the basketball blue and red team whose leader is Juan Carlos Navarro

The lucky winners of the B10 Mascot Contest who were attending the ceremony in Olympic Stadium of Montjüic have met Barni today. The mascot has fascinated them

The winners of the B10 Mascot Contest will meet Barni tomorrow, which will be the special guest of the delivery of the prizes foreseen in the Olympic Stadium of Montjuïc

This weekend, during its council in Berlin, European Athletics has begun giving details on the next season. The final calendar of events will be known in two weeks

Anyone wanting to watch the video of Barni’s presentation during the Mercè festival can click on the corresponding image to access the video

Barni enjoys football too. During its visit to one of the Espanyol club´s training sessions Barni, the B10 mascot, had a photo taken with Iván de la Peña and Raúl Tamudo. This blue and white team supports B10.

A javelin thrower has won the voting process, becoming the best European athlete this year: Andreas Thorkildsen has ended his season in a great way after his success in Beijing and the first position he got in the world ranking list

When the time for prizes and acknowledgements arrives, Yelena Isinbayeva is again on top of the list. She has just been elected as the best European athlete by European Athletics

Next October 10, at the Olympic Stadium of Montjuïc, there will be a great reception for the lucky winners of the mascot´s contest.The first prize has gone to Málaga city

The Barcelona 2010 October Newsletter is now available.

The details about countries that have qualified for the European Team Championships 2009 have now been published and Spain is officially amongst the best

The Spanish middle distance runner is in a recovery process after having had a fascitis plantar surgery last month. Now, she is already thinking of Barcelona 2010

The changes happened in the technical department of British Athletics will give Dwain Chambers the chance to compete in Barcelona 2010. So far, Charles van Commenee has given him the welcome

The mascot of Barcelona 2010 was present in La Cursa de la Mercè along with the Mayor of the city. Lots of photographs were made of this mascot with hundreds of children

The mascot of Barcelona 2010 already knows what an athletics race is. It has been the great novelty in La Cursa de la Mercè which is celebrating its 30th anniversary today

The Barcelona 2010 mascot finally has a name: it will be called Barni. Pere Alcober and the event’s general coordinator, Mónica Barra, made it official

The most successful Spanish athlete in Beijing, who has recently undergone surgery, is already thinking about new challenges and is determined to go very far during Barcelona 2010

María Vasco seems delighted with the mascot chosen by Barcelona 2010. Barni and María are already good friends and she hopes that Barni will bring her luck during the championships in two years’ time

The most famous Spanish former athlete is called Jordi Llopart. He began a string of big successes for Spanish athletics 30 years ago, which is sure to continue into 2010

It is official, the International Meeting Ciutat de Barcelona, promoted by the Barcelona 2010 project, has had the best results out of all the athletics meetings organised in Spain

Well known faces will go to the stand of Barcelona 2010 on Saturday. The Mercé's festivities will begin and this year this event has an important role in the streets

From today on, and until the end of the year, photographs taken by 29 Catalan journalists who were present in the Olympic Games could be seen in the Museu Olímpic i de l 'Esport de Barcelona

Quim Guixà is the creator of other highly successful mascots such as Curro, Cobi, Clam and, more recently, Fluvi, the image of Zaragoza’s Expo 2008

The Mayor of Barcelona sets this news within the framework of the wish the city has of an international projection based on sports events,amongst the ones Barcelona 2010 is highlighted

The General Coordinator for Barcelona 2010 will attend the World Athletics Final with one goal: the international promotion of B10

With the appointment of the new B10 directors and the approval of the official mascot, the project continues to gain pace and will soon attract public attention when it hits the streets. The next objective is the Barcelona Mercè festival

If you want to have a souvenir of the B10 mascot presentation, come to the Mercè festival on Saturday 20 September and we will take a photo of you with the mascot, which you will be able to download from the B10 website

The management team of European Athletics Championships Barcelona 2010 is reinforced by the last appointments, among which stands out that of the new General Coordinator, Monica Barra

Neither Phelps, nor Bolt, Nadal, Bryant or Messi. Yelena Isinbayeva, the Russian pole vaulter, was the sportswoman who enjoyed the greatest popularity among the audience, being one of the best supported by the audience during the last Olympic Games

The Mayor of Barcelona gathers the Spanish press in Beijing to praise the European Athletics Championships.

Now, you may download the August newsletter of Barcelona 2010

The great test event face to Barcelona 2010 has already official dates to be celebrated: The Spanish Athletics Championships will be celebrated in Montjuic

The athletic activity in Barcelona leaves some space for the EuroGames Barcelona 2008 to take place too. Athletics competitions will be held in the Joan Serrahima's with most of the Olympic programme

The 83.265 points got in the Olympic Stadium Lluís Companys place the Meeting Ciutat de Barcelona on the first place amongst the ones celebrated in Spain this year

After having celebrated the Meeting Ciutat de Barcelona and once having finished the period for choosing the official mascot, now it is the turn of the Championship's promotion

The Meeting Ciutat de Barcelona 2008 is now part of the history (of Athletics). The organisation of the next edition has already begun: tt will take place on 25 July 2009

The Meeting Ciutat de Barcelona as the first test event of B10 has claryfied that the refurbishment process in the Olympic Stadium is essential. The building work will begin in 2009

The first volunteers recruitment campaign will began in October. Reaching around 3000 youngs from Barcelona, Catalunya and Spain is the main goal

The Olympic Stadium of Montjuic was very splendorous tonight with the coming back of the Meeting Ciutat de Barcelona. It has been a great celebration. Four records of the meeting have been broken

16 years have passed for us to have again the chance of showing you a photograph like the one we have today. A photo with eight of the highest profile athletes who are going to run in Montjuic. The Meeting Ciutat de Barcelona has made it possible.

The best four athletes in Triple Jump this season are going to compete in Barcelona. The last one in getting registered has been the current Olympic champion Francoise Mbango