395:. On 15 January 1917, he was appointed as the second president of the institution, a position he held for over a year, until 15 March 1918, when he was replaced by Joan Matas (only because Elías did not accept it). In total, he held the presidency in three different periods between 1917 and 1923. He was also the first president of the Spanish Wrestling Federation in 1914 as well as the first president of the
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Education and pre-military Instruction and making known what physical education and sports were like abroad by organizing an International Graphic Exhibition of Physical Education, Physiotherapy, Sports and Tourism in his gym. In 1934, he promoted the First Catalan Congress of Physical Education, chaired by
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Olympic committee in Spain in accordance with the Law of Associations of 1887. At last in 1926, Garcia was readmitted to the COE, which was the one registered as an Olympic Group in the registry of the Civil Government instead of the Alsina Group. He was thus a member of the
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as a "cultural and sports society whose objective is the regeneration of our race, through the practice of the
Olympic trials and as a basis gymnastics sports". On 12 July 1924, the organization was officially established, having as a mission the sending of Spanish representatives to the Olympic
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During the 1930s, Garcia was a delegate of the SOC and organizer of conferences in order to promote gymnastics, sport, and hygiene among the young and the elderly. He collaborated with the
Ministry of Public Instruction of the Directorate of Primo de Rivera, studying the regulations of National
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on 20 September 1936 (the same day that he was to participate in the Winter
Olympics) by one of the many groups of "uncontrolled" people who spread terror among right-wing people and Catholics in Barcelona. His corpse appeared tortured and disfigured next to that of his son.
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Olympism were also held there, and in 1913, he gave the conference that marked the starting point of Catalan Olympism. Garcia also worked as a professor of medicine and gymnastics, and introduced the practice of sports as a hygiene and health benefit.
383:, and Josep Elías, Garcia was one of the pioneers of sports journalism in Catalonia. With them, he founded the Union of Sports Journalists in 1911, whose purpose was to defend, regulate and disseminate sports journalism which used to be self-taught.
285:(28 March 1874 – 20 September 1936) was a Spanish doctor, professor of medicine and gymnastics, sports promoter and leader. During the first decades of the 20th century, he was involved in many Catalan sports initiatives, both in
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Olympism in Catalonia. He organized gymnastic tables, athletic competitions, "School Hygiene" congresses and participated in various organisations.
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Catalan Federation in 1932 and the Spanish Federation two years later, occupying the honorary presidency.
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in terms of training gymnasts and winning titles. This was not only Garcia's gym, but also his therapeutic center. The
Kinesiterapic Institute was the first place in Spain in which
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In 1915, Garcia was one of the founders of the
Catalan Athletics Federation, the very first federation of such in Catalonia, becoming its first treasurer under the presidency of
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decided to purge the Catalan managers, including Garcia, on 11 January 1924. In the following year, on June 25, 1924, he decided to found the
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in 1868 in Barcelona to give lessons to the fire department, of which he was the chief. He later opened the lessons to the public.
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