Milan-Cortina 2026, conflict over transparency

It’s not straightforward to arrange an Olympics and the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics is off to an uphill begin and is making an attempt to make up for misplaced time. There have been controversies, even not too long ago, with environmentalist associations, and Don Luigi Ciotti himself, with Libera, has requested for optimum transparency on the numerous works that also have to be achieved. And exactly with regard to the problem of transparency of the works, the Società Infrastrutture Milano Cortina 2026 (Simico), a state firm, underlined in a notice that “the Plan of the Olympic works, each when it comes to the interventions and from the viewpoint of the investments, was outlined and authorized by two separate Decrees of the President of the Council of Ministers. Particularly, the Prime Ministerial Decree of September 2023 studies the whole checklist of all of the works (111 interventions in complete, for an financial quantity amounting to €3,604,551,584.00), along with full information on prices, monetary sources and monetary protection of every work. All this info has been obtainable to everybody for 2 years now and revealed on-line on the federal government web site and on the Simico net portal. Stating or implying that there is no such thing as a transparency concerning the implementation of the Olympic works is totally false, in addition to defamatory. Società Infrastrutture Milano Cortina 2026, as in recent times, stays obtainable to supply info and clarifications, consistent with the transparency laws”.

The minister of sport, Andrea Abodi, has the delegation for the Video games: he mentioned he was glad with how the works have been progressing, together with for the bobsled observe in Cortina (“we’re 8 days forward of schedule” he defined) and promised each 15 days an inspection, in Lombardy and Veneto. The Pizzarotti firm from Parma has undertaken, after profitable the tender, to ship the Cortina observe to hold out the assessments required by the IOC by mid-March 2025. Pizzarotti is a historic building firm, which works all around the world: in spite of everything, the contract for the Video games (80 million) is a small factor for an organization, for instance, that builds the jail in French Guiana which is value thrice as a lot as Cortina…

The IOC awarded us the Video games in June 2019: there have been delays, true. There have been errors. There have been governments (Conte and Draghi) who weren’t very within the Video games. Now we try to get well: some works, definitely not the sports activities ones, is not going to be completed in time for the Video games however maybe accomplished later (this additionally considerations the Variante di Cortina lot, which could be very busy with visitors). A missed alternative, little question. And the prices, because of Covid and the rise in supplies and maybe different issues, who is aware of, will probably be increased than anticipated. Even the mayor of Milan, Sala, who’s coping with the Santa Giulia sports activities corridor and the Olympic Village, is aware of this effectively. More cash should be discovered, he requested for it on the event of the final management room at Palazzo Chigi (however Sala is from the Democratic Celebration, the federal government is centre-right). How a lot will the Video games value in the long run? 5 billion? How a lot debt will they go away (to the State)? The Olympics, as we all know, are by no means freed from cost, there isn’t any level in having any illusions. However now we’ve to run. With most transparency, after all. And whoever should be vigilant, be vigilant.

World Boccia Challenger in Finland, two medals for Italy

World Boccia Challenger of Pajulathi (Finland), a excessive degree occasion, provides Italy two medals: a silver and a bronze within the particular person competitors of the BC3 class. Two vital outcomes for the Italian historical past of the Paralympic Bowl. Crucial outcomes have been achieved by Gabriele Zendron, who completed in second place, after beating his nationwide teammate Mirco Garavaglia 8-4 within the quarter-finals and the Belgian Arno Van Praet (5-2) within the semi-finals. and, within the last, defeated by the British Patrick Wilson (3-1), eleventh on this planet within the rating.

Within the ladies’s BC3 check, nonetheless, Giulia Marchisio handed the group stage by profitable the matches in opposition to Germany (3-2) and Kazakhstan 3-2 and 18-0 respectively. Within the semi-final the Italian was defeated 5-3 by Singapore. Good efficiency within the third and fourth place last the place Giulia Marchisio beat the Finnish Vivi Virtanen 4-3. “Two vital medals that repay the efforts of the Italian Bowls Federation – the remark of the federal president Marco Giunio De Sanctis – I nonetheless keep in mind that we believed in a undertaking that, initially, might need appeared not possible. We crammed a technical hole in comparison with the opposite nationwide groups of not less than twenty years throughout which in numerous nations the self-discipline was already included, at excessive ranges, of their respective sporting landscapes”.