The Public Prosecutor's Office has asked the Barcelona Provincial Court to sentence a basketball coach from the Catholic Center of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat to 43 and a half years in prison, accusing him of sexually assaulting three of his players, aged between 14 and 15, when he was 20 years old. They are also seeking a ban on working with minors. The prosecution's indictment dates back to the 2017-2018 season. The coach was well-regarded and had a close relationship with the players on his team, the prosecution explains. During Holy Week in 2018, the entire team spent several days in Coma-ruga, in El Vendrell, to play in a tournament. The prosecution alleges that the first assault occurred on the last night the team stayed at a hotel in the town. According to the prosecutor, that night the coach sent a WhatsApp He approached one of the teenagers and told her to go to his room. There, he offered her rum and cola, and the young woman fell into a "semi-conscious state that prevented her from remembering almost anything until the following morning." During the night, the prosecution alleges, the coach took advantage of the girl's intoxication to have sex with her until she fell asleep. In the morning, she was dizzy and had difficulty walking, and he told her to go back to his room and not to tell anyone what had happened.

Óscar Onrubia (Barcelona, ​​2000) recently became European wheelchair basketball champion after leading the Spanish national team to the finals in Sarajevo. Born in the La Mina neighborhood of Sant Adrià de Besòs, he suffered from meningococcal sepsis as a child, which resulted in a double tibial amputation and the loss of fingers. But Óscar isn't one of those people born to be idle. This neighborhood, which carries a stigma, became the backdrop for his story, where he fell in love with sports and music. A lover of film and tattoos, he is now one of the best players in Europe. He receives the call from ARA in Albacete, where he lives and shines with Amiab Albacete, the champion of the Adapted Basketball Champions League.

Of the eight matches Barça has played without Joan Peñarroya, seven have ended in Barça victories. Three with Òscar Orellana as interim coach and four with Xavi Pascual leading the Blaugrana. Hope has returned to a Barça fanbase that had already written off this season. The Catalan team now faces a hectic schedule that will see them play 13 matches in 30 days. The first comes this Friday (8:30 p.m.), when they host Olympiacos at the Palau Blaugrana. Pascual has brought order to Barça's play, improving their defensive performance and limiting errors on offense. The team has taken a step forward in solidity and, despite its limitations, now competes more consistently. The first task, to reach a good level in two months, is progressing well. The second request the coach from Gavà received was to reconnect with the Palau Blaugrana, whose atmosphere has cooled after two years without titles. Attendance at the arena was worrying in the first few months of the season. Improved performance and a more aggressive discount policy have helped reverse this trend, which the club wants to emphasize in the second half of the campaign.

"We've never had such a long list of interview requests as we have now with Ricky." Judit Borrull, Joventut's communications manager, perfectly sums up the excitement generated by Ricky Rubio's return to La Penya. The 34-year-old point guard is living his dream comeback at the club that trained him. Sales of shirts with the number 9 have skyrocketed, and the number of season ticket holders continues to grow.

Happy as if he'd learned to prioritize the good over the bad, Ricky Rubio was introduced as a Joventut player. The 34-year-old point guard explained the process that led him from thinking about retirement to deciding to play with the team that gave him his debut when he was just fourteen. "I was already clear that I'd reached my limit, but at the end of April, four things happened that made me take life differently. It all started with a conversation with someone I didn't know, and that resulted in three or four actions in three consecutive days that made me rethink the situation. I let a week pass to breathe and then decided."

As Xavi Ballesteros (Badalona Television) has advancedRicky Rubio will return to playing professional basketball. The point guard has signed with Joventut Badalona, which made the deal official on Tuesday. which is for a seasonTwenty years after his precocious debut at just 14 years old, the El Masnou native will once again wear the green and black jersey.

"I tried to sleep, but it was impossible. I ended up feeling like a faker. I wanted to prove that I was okay, that I had everything under control. And balls! I was lost and scared. I had the feeling that since I was 14, since I started being a professional player, I had to follow a script, some unwritten rules." This is how Ricky Rubio begins to describe his experience in an interview broadcast by Évole's thing (The Sixth).

Elite athletes and mass sports, as well as the athletes who earn the most and have the greatest media coverage, have traditionally always been men. As this is a cause of a primarily cultural nature, perpetuated for a long time, it is necessary to empower girls and young women when it comes to starting and consolidating themselves in the sports they like. But how can this be done? Alejandra Domínguez, director of the Women's Sports Institute (WSI), suggests starting by "providing truthful information." And she maintains that "we tend to assume that the salary differences between male and female athletes are due to some type of discrimination, when what happens with sport, like with any business or industry, is also subject to the laws of the market and, therefore, to gain access we must submit to its rules." This does not mean, she clarifies immediately, "that nothing can be done to improve or that there is nothing to do." In fact, in his opinion, everything that falls outside the concept of the sports industry as a business should enjoy special protection. "We must ensure that access to sports becomes a reality for everyone," he stresses.

Tensions between Tarragona's basketball clubs have skyrocketed in recent weeks and some clubs admit to being terrified of facing a team that almost every game it plays ends up like the rosario de la Aurora. This is FarLaw Sports, a team from La Canonja led by the lawyer David Peña. In just four weeks, this Tarragona coach of lower categories has accumulated one incident after another: he has been sent off the field at least twice; he has been reported for assaulting a boy from the public who had insulted him; he has thrown a chair in the middle of the field according to the referee's report, and he has been sanctioned for making a player who did not have a registration play.

The first time Paola Manjón de Olañeta played with a basketball was with her mother, who bought it for her to keep her entertained. Born in Santo Domingo in 1998, she was adopted when she was 2 years old and has always lived in Catalonia since then. She accumulates medals and awards of all kinds on the wall of her room in the Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona. Winner of the gold medal at the 2023 Special Olympics World Games in Berlin, her story of overcoming has led her to star in the documentary Beyond sport already received the Female Athlete Award from Barcelona City Council. She meets us a few days after participating in a round table at the Macaya Palace of the La Caixa Foundation to talk about her experience as a member of a team made up of people with borderline intelligence or mild intellectual disability.