World Skate Games, the youth celebration in September

The youth festival will be held in Italy, in four regions (Piedmont, Lazio, Emilia Romagna and Abruzzo), from 6 to 22 September: they are the Skate World Games, which will involve a sports population of over 10,000 people from around 100 countries. 156 world titles are up for grabs, involving all roller sports, from the spectacular and dangerous downhill to skating and hockey. Sabatino Aracu, president of World Skate and the Italian Federation (FISR) for eight terms, is organizing. The presentation at the Pincio on 3 September, the inaugural parade at Trinità dei Monti on 6 (maybe Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will also be there).

They are young, growing disciplines that the IOC and TV like. After the Paris 2024 Games, skateboarding will be given space for the third time, and will also be confirmed for Los Angeles 2028, because, like surfing, it is an emerging and urban sport (breakdancing, on the other hand, is leaving the Games after a brief and not very happy appearance in Paris: it is sometimes not easy to understand the IOC’s policy).

Skateboarding is highly spectacular, it will be there in September in Rome: the best Italians are Alex Sorgente, Italian-American, a promising sixth place in Paris, and the Roman Alessandro Mazzara, not very good in France. A girl of good international level is still missing, maybe it would be better to focus on some young natives.

Sabatino Aracu would like to find space in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic program also for monoppatino (skootering) and the roller marathon open that in September, at the World Skate Games, will be held along the Adriatic coast, starting and finishing in Pescara, with thousands of amateurs involved together with champions. With his event, which they would like to organize in the future in Washington DC and Tokyo, Aracu is putting into practice what Minister Andrea Abodi wants: finally a sport that does not waste money (public) but welcomes thousands of people to Italy, a boost to tourism as well.