After the Nobel Prize for Water, the presidency of World Rugby? Professor Andrea Rinaldo, a Venetian scientist awarded the distinguished 2023 Stockholm Water Prizeis operating for the highest of the world’s largest oval group. It is the identical position that Gianni Infantino holds in soccer.
Rugby, Italy-All Blacks for historical past. Rinaldo: “Towards them, you want depraved braveness”
by Massimo Calandri
Contribution to environmental safety
Director of the Ecohydrology Laboratory on the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, Professor of Hydraulic Constructions on the College of Padua and member of the Accademia dei Lincei, final 12 months Rinaldo was awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy – the primary Italian to obtain this prestigious recognition – “for his distinctive contribution to the safety of the atmosphere in a broad sense or for having written in an illuminating means on this topic”.
Rinaldo, 3 scudetti and 4 appearances in blue
However he isn’t just an internationally famend scholar. He was an essential rugby participant3 championships gained with Petrarca Padova, 4 appearances for the nationwide staff within the second row position, in 1977 protagonist with an Italian choice, the President’s XV, of a historic match on the Appiani in Padua in opposition to the All Blacks: the Italians misplaced by a slim margin (9-17), after having closed the primary half within the sport, by no means was considered one of our groups so near the New Zealand masters. A 12 months after that match, Rinaldo tore the cruciate ligaments in his knee. Goodbye scrums and tackles. “I needed to be an athlete, I had to decide on plan B. I grew to become a scientist”.
Nobel Prize for Water Andrea Rinaldo: “The world is dying of thirst, however on the finish of the century Venice will probably be submerged by the ocean”
at Elena Dusi
The e book about rugby
The eagerness for the oval ball, nevertheless, remained, a lot in order that the scholar – writer of a e book entitled Of rugby – For an ecology of the oval ball (Marsilio) – has been on the board of administrators of EPCR for twenty years and represents Italy within the World Rugby Council.
Announcement of candidacy in Tokyo
The candidacy was introduced at present in Tokyo in the course of the reception organized by Ambassador Gianluigi Benedetti in honor of the Italian staff, which can face Japan in Sapporo on Sunday (at 7:00 Italian time). The president of the Italian Federation spoke in the course of the ceremony, Marzio Innocenti: “Italian rugby is experiencing a section of essential improvement, supported by substantial investments that we now have courageously needed to hold ahead to permit us to consolidate and enhance our place on the worldwide scene. Rinaldo, who sits alongside me on the World Rugby board and who enjoys the deep esteem of all our worldwide stakeholders, has determined with our full help to advance his candidacy for President of the worldwide federation, the primary Italian in 100 and thirty-eight years of historical past. Additionally, or slightly above all, from the sort of recognition and from beginning the longer term position of Italy on the planet of worldwide rugby relies upon”.
Elections in November
The present president of World Rugby is English Invoice Beaumont. The elections are scheduled for November. Rinaldo’s is the primary candidacy, in keeping with rumours the Scotsman might additionally current himself shortly John Jeffrey and the Australian Brett Robertson. The scientist’s odds are excellent: in these weeks Marzio Innocenti, who will formally help the Nobel Prize together with one other essential Union of the Six Nations, would have acquired favorable suggestions additionally from different main nations of the oval world.
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– 2024-07-18 17:50:32
