Canoe Federation, agreement with Buonfiglio: Antonio Rossi vice-president

It is no longer a time for arguments and clashes (even in court). Peace is returning to the world of canoeing: President Luciano Buonfiglio, born in 1950, has made an agreement with his old rival Antonio Rossi, who will run in his “team” for the federal council in the next elections, and will then be Buonfiglio’s vice president in office from 2025 and sole candidate. The pact between the two former canoe athletes (Rossi, born in 1968, three Olympic gold medals) was recently signed and puts an end to a long period of conflict.

The elections for Fick, the Italian Canoe and Kayak Federation, will be held in Rome on October 12 (the closing date for nominations is September 2). The common-sense agreement between Buonfiglio and Rossi was also shared by Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, who will be present at the 2024 Paris Olympics: the Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, from the League like Antonio Rossi, who was also Undersecretary for Sport for the Lombardy Region, was a guest at Casa Italia and saw many of the Games. The minister has always been passionate and curious about sports, from volleyball to archery. This pact in a leading Olympic Federation (two medals in Paris) brings serenity to the environment. We can look to the future with an even stronger “team”.

Rossi will also be in charge of following the development of the National teams. “I hope I can be an added value, with Buonfiglio we can do important things to further develop a sport that I love, an ecological sport” Rossi told us, who in four years would like to run for president. Canoeists want to become the sentinels of rivers and lakes, which is no small thing in these times.

Tennis Federation, Pagnozzi and Appendino Binaghi’s deputies

So far only four sports federations have gone to the polls but now the heart of the matter is in: tomorrow, August 31st, it’s the turn of Fitri (triathlon, four candidates for the presidency), then on Sunday, September 1st, the battleship Fitp, tennis and padel, will take to the field. Angelo Binaghi will obviously be reconfirmed as president, not only because he is the only candidate but because he is firmly in command and comes from unprecedented results (sporting and economic). The Sardinian manager’s “team” will be even stronger: Lello Pagnozzi, former general secretary of Coni, rival of Malagò for the presidency and now secretary of Coe (European Olympic Committees), has run for the federal council. Pagnozzi is a highly experienced manager, known and appreciated also at an international level: he will join Binaghi’s team but should also become vice president together with Chiara Appendino, former mayor of Turin and leading figure of the 5 Star Movement. Tennis looks to the future.

Malagò: “Paris 2024? We deserved more”

“We are very happy, it is what we expected and perhaps we deserved something more. However, the result is extraordinary because doing very well in Tokyo was complicated, repeating it was perhaps even more so. We had 25 fourth places, but what matters is that we won 40 medals, the United States almost three times more but we had more fourth places than them, and we also put in a good load of fifth places”: this is what the president of CONI, Giovanni Malagò, spoke to “Ovunque6” on Rai Radio 2, recalling the results of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Sky, over one million three hundred thousand contacts for the US Open

Over 1.3 million unique contacts on Sky for the US Open tennis match. The Sinner-Michelsen match obtained an overall average audience of 244,000 viewers with a peak of 380,000 in the final minutes. In addition, the first day of the Vuitton Cup on Sky obtained an average audience of 147,000 viewers, with 483,000 unique contacts.