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COE. Despite having been forced to accept a
Catalan regional committee dependent on the COE, Villamejor was suspicious of Elias' true intentions and wrote to Coubertin on 5 January 1914, stating: "I see that you are aware of all the agitation promoted in Barcelona by Mr. Elias Juncosa. It is always the same story, they want to consider themselves independent, without wanting to understand that their only right of existence is to be Spanish".
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requesting, without success, the recognition of the
Catalan Olympic Committee. Coubertin responded to Elias and Juncosa's letter of December 1913 by telling him that the IOC could not recognize more than one committee per country, but that he could accept it as a kind of regional committee within the
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Spanish delegation was not achieved, and asked for help from the Catalan sports leaders, so that Spain would be in the Olympic Games in a letter addressed to Masferrer. On Christmas Day of 1913, it was announced that the COE had authorized Masferrer to establish an
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Levantine Illustration (1900–01) and the Catalan Illustration (1901–15), and directed the newsletter of the Spanish Cycling Union (1910) and Stadium (1913). Along with
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Josep Elias i
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317:Gimnasio Garcia Alsina
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242:Spanish Cycling Union
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406:Football Asociación
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377:La Veu de Catalunya
364:Journalistic career
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