Italy promoted on the merits of the exams of the International Olympic Committee, visiting Milan to take stock of the preparation of the now imminent Milan-Cortina 2026. The summer heat did not prevent the city from welcoming the president of the Cio Kirsty Coventry, with the opening of the five circles deputies deputies to distribute mascots and gadgets of the next winter Olympic games, The first of the history spread along a path of over 1000 km between Lombardy, Veneto, Trentino and Alto-Adige with all the challenges and logistical unknowns of the case.
“In a few months this structure will welcome athletes from all over the world, you must be very proud of it because it is a beautiful structure, said Coventry, a former swimmer, visiting Milan the Olympic village of the former Porta Romana airport. I want to be an athlete of winter sports … », ha commented after visiting the village. “We can’t wait to be here with all the flags of the various countries,” he added. «Italy is known for its history, culture, passion. “Today is a fabulous day,” he said. «We are very happy to be here, very grateful. Congratulations to Milan Cortina, to the local authorities, to the companies involved in the construction. Even more important is the inheritance of transformation into a study “.
Before the Olympic village, Coventry visited the system that will host the male hockey tournament. “It was really beautiful to see the rhythm of the work and progress.”
To do the honors of the house: the mayor of Milan Beppe Sala and the President of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana with Giovanni Malagò, no longer president of the Coni but still president of the Milan Cortina Foundation, proud of the result: «The coordination and the commission have made many compliments during the visit. This is the executive of the IOC, we are talking about the greatest leaders of world sport and I am particularly happy. There is still something to complete, there is still to be fixed, but the judgments are enthusiastic. We are very pleased, today they were all particularly affected by the importance of the system, especially by its versatility because there will be the opportunity to create a multidisciplinary space. The city of Milan had a lot of need for it, but I would say the whole country».
Exams therefore passed with flying colors, but with a final note on the “conduct”. Only a reparative phone call between Coventry and the Minister for Sport Andrea Abadi, in the evening he buffered a diplomatic accident in the Cesarini area: the president in the meeting with journalists before and a formal note after, not on the register but in the form of a letter to the Milan Cortina Foundation, in fact noticed the total absence of representatives of the Italian government. Not even the Minister of Sport Abodi, engaged in the National Youth Feast (Fdl youth movement), was present to welcome the highest political authority of Olympic sport, on his first visit to Italy since the beginning of the mandate last March, and 140 days after the Italian Olympiad, whose government has been responsible for the decisive part of the safety entrusted to the police, an increasingly delicate factor, as well as economically demanding, to a world in a world. Tensions.
During the visit of the IOC, this is also spoken of this. The regime already applied in Paris 2024 for Russia and Belarus was reiterated: authorized to participate only with individual independent athletes, without hymn or flag, for violating the Olympic truce during the 2022 winter games with the intervention in Ukraine. Instead, the request of Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez to apply the same measures to Israel is rejected. Given that as regards the Olympic world Israel and Palestine are already two peoples two states, the words of the executive director of the winter Olympic Games Milan Cortina 2026 (figure of the IOC) have aroused debate, Christophe Dubi that in the press conference on September 17 said: “Israel respects the Olympic card. A case completely different from that represented by Russia and Belarus, in Paris “. Concept reiterated by President Coventry. The themes are those not always without contradiction of the independence between sport and politics and the autonomy of sport. There was no shortage of those like Mauro Berruto, today deputy Pd, but which Olympic bronze in London 2012 from CT of the National Volleyball, underlined the hypocrisy of two weights two measures on his institutional profiles. A theme destined to make people discuss for a long time.
