Mialno, February 3, 2021 – When do gyms and swimming pools reopen? A question that comes back cyclically in recent months, especially after the latest easing of restrictive measures in many parts of Italy. To date no Region is in the red zone and many have passed in the yellow band. At the moment, however, there are no big news for sports facilities. Many point to the February 15, day on which the provision that prohibits travel between regions even in the yellow zone expires, the ski resorts can reopen and competitions with a maximum of 30 people restart.
New Dpcm, eyes on February 15: here’s what could change
But the government could prolong the stop with a new decree in force from February 16, moving the date to March 5, when it will expire the Dpcm January 14, 2021, and with it the implementation of the decree itself. Fundamental the next two weeks to decide if, how and when reopen the gyms and restart the sport. Everything will depend on the trend of the epidemiological curve. In the meantime, the confrontation with Minister Spadafora and the CTS is open.
Sport in the yellow zone
At the moment, Lombardy is located in yellow zone, like most Italian regions. And ‘quaindi contact sports are prohibited, defined in the specific decree of the Minister of Sport and are all competitions prohibited, competitions and all activities related to amateur contact sports. Instead it is it is allowed to carry out the related training sessions outdoors and individually and the activities identified with the decree, as well as training for team sports, which may take place individually, outdoors and in compliance with the distancing.
The protest: “Ready to go back to the streets”
“Unfortunately, if before the situation was critical, it is now starting to become really dramatic – explained Marco Contardi, president of Arisa, the Lombard association of sports companies that is a member of Confcommercio Milano -. I have news of gyms that have decided to do not reopen “. For Contardi, those who attend a gym or a swimming pool can do it insecurity because the managers insure “sanitization, respect for distances” even if they are forced to remain at the mercy of the failed reopening. “There is not the slightest attention on the part of institutions and the Government to the world of sport – said Contardi – and this, according to sociologists and child psychologists, is creating very important youth discomfort. Close the gyms, as well as prevent adults from exercising, creates an inconvenience. There is total blindness on the part of the institutions and this is becoming a social problem “. The world of sports, Contardi noted,” is having repercussions everywhere: from families, to managers, to users, and it is truly devastating. From the government I was expecting an intervention for utilities, rents, tax exemptions from sport. I expected the refreshments to be commensurate with the type of activity carried out. Instead the world of sport is still on October 26th. If there will be to go back to publicly protest we will do it again “.
