When we launched the challenge of hosting the XV World Gymnaestrada in the Royal Spanish Gymnastics Federation, 2015 seemed like a distant date. As the official process marked by FIG is moving, the calendar runs fast and it gives the feeling that 2015 is now just round the corner.

Since then, we haven't stopped working on it, and we will present the more imaginative, ambitious and exciting candidature project.

We have an extraordinary human team, with an organizational capacity that was evident in the recent experience of the European event, 1 st Golden Age Gym Festival celebrated 2008 in Spain. We also have a fan base excited with gymnastics for all combined with a modern, vital, warm and enterprising country, with excellent infrastructure and enviable attraction. We have the enormous illusion of bringing to Spain an event we never have lived at home.

With all this, our 2015 XV World Gymnaestrada has already started. We want FIG to be convinced that our project is the best one, and we want to start living and sharing it with the whole world of gymnastics.

We want to organize the best World Gymnaestrada of history. Not because we need it, but because we know we are capable of doing so.

We want it.

Royal Spanish Gymnastics Federation President Antonio Esteban Cerdán