ROME (ITALPRESS) – Luciano Rossi has been re-elected president of Fitav, the Italian Shooting Federation. He received 338 votes out of 346 eligible voters (97.69 percent, 8 blank ballots, or 2.31 percent). “I am happy – the president’s first words – and I thank everyone. Our movement is cohesive and strongly motivated. Today 92 percent of those eligible to vote were present, and to have obtained almost 98 percent of the consensus, with a secret ballot, gratifies me and motivates me to give my best for the defense of our societies that are always faced with so many obstacles to operate and to manage, they have to comply with a thousand fulfillments and overcome many difficulties, but united we will go forward. When I was elected president of Issf, the international shooting federation, I was received by Bach, the IOC president, who informed me that we were out of the Los Angeles Games at that time. I was not discouraged, I set out to travel, to have meetings, video conferences, to join forces and people, in the end we will be there in Los Angeles and I believe we will still have to do, compete and, I am sure, win again.” “Our sport has a very Italian matrix, for the materials, the tools, the technique, but also and above all for the spirit of us Italians to find strength and energy to overcome difficulties and limits,” Rossi concluded. Also re-elected were the federal board: Ferdinando Rossi (247 votes), Fiorenzo De Rosa (227), Paolo Fiori (215), Adriano Avveduto (214), Fabrizio Fprti (211), Emanuela Bonomi Croce (199), and Maria Christine Brescacin (186) in the Sports Association quota. In Athletes quota: Roberta Pelosi (30 votes), Roberto Manno (20). In technician quota elected Antonello Campus (18 votes).- Photo Fitav Press Office -(ITALPRESS).
