by Claudio Brachino
MILAN (ITALPRESS) – June 2019. I remember it again, we were in Rome, in the Palatine Center, in the study of the program of Nicola Porro, and the news was widely expected, then broke long in the live in the early evening. Italy had won the 2026 Winter Olympics by proposing an innovative project, an event spread between a big city, Milan, and a locality, Cortina, not only mountain but baricentro of slopes for fun and winter sports. In the middle of the Alps, the valleys, the territories. The first piece of this brave, innovative narrative, identity, had gone well. February 2026. Now we are in reality, the games are about to begin with the great ceremony in the San Siro Stadium (the last one of a certain level that will host the former soccer scale) and will have to stage the second part of the narrative. The first widespread winter Olympiad will have, as a mirror and as a check cut, an adequate organization. Changes, accommodation, times, punctuality, welcome. The third part of this narrative, for now, of success, is precisely sustainability, great mantra of our time and compass of the reputation of everything.
So no longer works and structures made for the occasion but then become cathedrals of nothing, public money thrown and damage to the environment and for the decoration, but few essential interventions, for the races, for the athletes, the business, and above all interventions on mobility, links, on the transports, which then can remain heritage of civil life. But the account of the stories is that of Italy itself, a country that has seen itself recognize its food as a UNESCO heritage. Italy shows to the world its essence and beauty, in the unique bridge connecting our extraordinary mountains to the most advanced cities, design, modernity, technology and together the uniqueness of our Alps and our valleys. A story therefore that integrates the different, that unites, that acts as a bridge and brings together. In an increasingly divided and divisive world, this is perhaps the best homage to the deep and ancient spirit of an Olympiad. Of course now the narratives leave the place to the events, we will be measured on how things work, we will make our national medallist, our athletes will have the privilege, honor and advantage of competing in the house, but then sport, like life, has its unpredictable.
Then there will be the theme of tourism, for some of the overturism, a word that makes the operators of the supply chain, but forecast and organization will be part of the success of the operation. There will be the theme of security, which has already made to discuss, there will be economic issues, expenses and revenues, there will be the image of Italy in play in the world, but in the meantime it is worth playing right and having fun and being well. Sport is also joy and happiness, for itself and for others who look and get excited. Chivu, coach of Inter, reminded him of his somewhat shady champion, Lautaro. Smile. If you do so those of football that are national sports, you can do it with all the disciplines that in an Olympiad enhance the variety and beauty of sport precisely. Good Milano-Cortina.
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