“Milan in recent weeks has been the scene of things that have nothing to do with sport. I would like to hear some clear position from the production and football system on events that have nothing to do with football and which in some way they intersect with the life of football, hoping that they remain outside the stadium”: thus the Minister for Sport and Youth, Andrea Abodi, in video connection with ‘Italia Direzione Nord’. “But we certainly cannot deny that there is an issue to be addressed and resolved so that football can remain a sport with stadiums as places of welcome, support and passion and not violence and oppression.” Abodi is often critical of the world of football, and also of Gravina’s FIGC.
Milan-Cortina, race against time
As regards the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, “even though the weather is no friend to us, we are collaborating in such a spirit that we will respect our commitments and present ourselves to the world in the right way”, explains Abodi again. According to the minister, “440 days are not enough to finish everything, but we want to prepare for a memorable edition of the Games and this starts with the creation of the infrastructure”. The minister also underlined that “if around 800 trees have been cut down for the bobsled, luge and skeleton tracks, some of them diseased, we will plant 10 times as many. The Olympics will have an environmental legacy worthy of the aspirations of all of us”.
Mezzaroma: “I hope private individuals invest more and more in sport”
“It is necessary, through the census that we are carrying out, to take a snapshot of the country’s sports facilities, because there is a desire on the part of all the subjects to replicate the Caivano model”: thus the president of Sport and Health, Marco Mezzaroma, during the Beppe Viola award at the CONI. “Greater participation between public and private is always necessary – he added -. I hope that more and more private entities will invest in sport as a vehicle for social inclusion and promoter of positive values”.
Malagò: “It would be nice to have the Holy Father as a torchbearer”
“We must aim for universality, we are Italy, a free and open country. It would be nice even for a meter to have the Holy Father as a torchbearer”: this was said by the president of CONI and number 1 of the Olympic Foundation, Giovanni Malagò, at the end of the presentation of the journey of the Olympic and Paralympic flame of Milan-Cortina 2026. The journeys of the Olympic and Paralympic Flames of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Games have been revealed. Sixty-three days of travel, 60 cities visited, 12 thousand kilometers traveled touching all the Italian provinces: the journey of the Olympic torch will begin on 26 November 2025 in Olympia, Greece, with the lighting of the fire which will then arrive in Rome on 4 December. After two days it will begin its journey through Italy, touching Naples at Christmas and “celebrating” the new year in Bari. On January 26, 2026, however, he will return to Cortina d’Ampezzo at exactly 70 years of age from the opening of the Games held in the “pearl” of the Dolomites. The torch will conclude its journey in Milan, entering the San Siro stadium on the evening of Friday 6 February 2026. The Paralympic flame, however, will be lit on 24 February in Stoke. Mandeville in England, historic birthplace of Paralympic sport.
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