“What a shame to have abandoned sport. I’ll go back to dancing.” Promise’s smile opens, illuminating the room of Palazzo Geremia. She says it with conviction while her classmates applaud. The protagonist for a day was the high school student involved during the panel “Federations, a new world”, at the Sports Festival during which she made her debut by saying: “I don’t practice any sport anymore”. An improvised duet with the CEO, Diego Nepi Molineris who perfectly draws that bridge that Sport and Health has developed to bring more and more people to do physical activity and above all to avoid “drop out”, i.e. abandoning the practice.
“More sports and sports practice generate large-scale economic and social benefits for the entire country starting from greater productivity, employment and well-being”. There are two guidelines to follow: systems and costs. “We cannot take 7 years to build new plants, in between many generations pass by and they are inevitably lost. How to avoid it? Reduce times and build playgrounds that we called Illumina. We need to listen to the needs of the territory and the dreams of the kids” continued the CEO who showed the situation of plant engineering in Italy: a huge disparity between the north (52%) and the south (26%). Most were built for the ’60 Olympics and the ’90 World Cup.
“Major sporting events must be the effect and no longer the cause. We need to overturn the paradigm we have had until now. The cause must become the growth of the facilities and the sports movement – underlined Nepi – The concept is very simple: the objective is the growth of ordinary investments and not in the exceptional nature of the sporting event”.
Finally, the costs: “From 2022 to 2023 the cost of sport increased by +15.9% and above all 30% of children do not play sport due to the economic condition of the family. And this is a great job that falls to the Federations, which will have to invest 90% of the contribution in the promotion, support and help of sports clubs, the first outposts in our territory, development of performance and healthy competition. Medals are built from the base.” And a medal has arrived in Trento: Promise will return to sports. And she will do it not because she was told but because she was the one who understood it and crossed the bridge with a smile. On stage, together with the CEO of Sport e Salute, also Massimiliano Rosolino, member of the “Sport e Salute – Illumina” team.
“Sport – said Massimiliano Rosolino, addressing the audience of young people in the room – is getting up and running, it is daily movement. Once upon a time there was the idea that sport was first and foremost about sacrifice, but in reality it is about feeling good. Those who start doing sport he doesn’t need to become a protagonist at the Olympics, just one pass, one goal, learning the dolphin style. I was watching the Paris 2024 competitions and I was struck by the end of them their matches were a liberation. We must work on this, because we must get across the idea that we must also accept defeats.” Also in the room was the vice Olympic champion of Beijing 2008 and London 2012, Clemente Russo: “It’s just a few kilometers from my house in Marcianise to Parco Verde di Caivano – he said -. There was a lot of skepticism when Sport e Salute decided to redevelop the area and to create a large sports center. Well, in the few months since it opened, it has gone from the desert to Manhattan. There are so many people who go there to run, who take advantage of it, that it seems like being in Central Park, and small champions are also growing. Congratulations to Sport and Health for what they did in Caivano.”
Roda: “Malagò irreplaceable, no one at his level”
“Replacing Malagò today is impossible. Partly because of his experience but not only that; partly because of his person: he has a top role with a great relationship with the athletes and in view of the Milan-Cortina Olympics he is crucial”: says the president of the Fisi, Flavio Roda, referring to the expiry in 2025 of the mandate of the number one of the Coni Giovanni Malagò. “I have the utmost respect for him – adds Roda at the Media Day underway at the Armani Teatro in Milan – but I have no personal interest. I hope that this change doesn’t happen, I don’t see a suitable replacement”. “Having an Olympics in Italy is a great opportunity for the whole country. The results will be fundamental for the success of the Olympics and everyone will do their utmost to make a good impression” explained Roda, underlining that “before the Olympics we have another important season , with the World Cup and the World Cup”. In Italy, he concluded, “there are phenomenal athletes in all disciplines who, beyond the results, should be thanked for their commitment”.
Formula Kite on the scene in Sardinia with young people
The very young foil specialists return to dart in the waters of the Gulf of Oristano: this time the Oristano navy will host the Formula Kite Youth European Championship, the European youth championship, during which the U21 and U17 titles will be awarded. Formula Kite has just made its debut at the Paris Olympic Games, precisely in Marseille, where the Italian Riccardo Pianosi came close to the podium, obtaining fourth place. And Pianosi himself will be one of the long-awaited protagonists in Torregrande, where he is now at home, after having participated in the world editions, winning gold in 2023, during the Formula Kite Youth European Championship edition. Tomorrow, Saturday 12th and 13th October, Torregrande will also host the 10th stage of the Italian Wingfoil Cup, another sailing specialty which will see the brothers Maddalena and Nicolò Spanu in the water, world and European champions respectively and vice world champion of
this new discipline, also involved in the Wingfoil World Cup which will take place in Cagliari. The same world event will also welcome two other very young athletes from Oristano: Riccardo Piana and Gioele Incani.
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