“Some Basques are not used to being confronted by Basques. We confronted the judges and they considered it disrespectful. I told Marta Berasategui some phrases in Basque and others in Spanish. I told him because I knew he understood me, he answered me.

He knows and has practiced the roles of Ahobizarre (he does it in Basque in every possible situation) and Earbud (he declares that he understands Basque and to please him to do it in Basque, even if he answers in Spanish), invented in sessions that have been held in different localities to change language habits. "I know how to behave with the ears. If you try Basque and find out that you don’t understand me, I know how to change to Spanish, I’m used to it. I wasn’t out of my mind, I was talking in the same tone as before. That's why I say, they're not used to being confronted by people and they think it's disrespectful. Do I disrespect him or vice versa? ", asks the San Sebastián athlete who does not want to give names.

Several hours after the test they realized that what happened to them was serious and then they decided to file a complaint. The Observatory, Bilingüe, San Sebastian City Council, Atlético San Sebastian and the Gipuzkoa Triathlon Federation filed a complaint. No official response from the two organizers of Saturday’s test has been received until Tuesday. On Tuesday morning, they asked the Atlético San Sebastián team for a meeting and received a yes.

"That Saturday afternoon, a few hours after that, we remembered that football event and decided to make the complaint public, knowing that the sauce would be created and that we would have to respond to all of it," the athlete told LA LUZ.

Both athletes claim in their complaint letter that they heard such phrases on Saturday afternoon: "I am the race director and I go to speak in Castellano", "You can go to Catalonia and speak in Basque to see what they say", "if that's what I say, I go to speak in English, that's also it".

We have told the athlete that the Gipuzkoa Triathlon Federation has accused him of threatening the judge. The athlete says that he did not threaten the judge, it is possible that he called the threat to say "Marta Berasategi, when the test is finished, we will talk about this matter", because after saying this he took out the red cardboard and disqualified it from Berasategi.

The following complaint was lodged by this woman at the Observatory of Linguistic Rights.