[4] Representatives from Chile[5] or Italy (Sabatino Aracu, member of Forza Italia)[6] would allegedly suffered from such pressions or receive instructions from their national governments.
[7] In addition, a letter of the Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD, the Spanish Council for Sports) to the Colombian federation in which the Spaniards were asking for the vote against Catalonia has been made public.
In that letter the CSD stated that the recognition of Catalonia would alter the Spanish sport national unity and would create a wrong precedent.
[8] On 29 November 2005, the FIRS assembly, meeting in Rome, he repeated the final vote on the admission of the Catalan Federation of Skating.
The extraordinary meeting in Rome of the FIRS rejected by 125 votes to 43 for admission as a full member of the Catalan Federation of Skating.