ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, received this morning at the Quirinale a delegation of the Fondazione Milano-Cortina 2026 led by the President, Giovanni Malagò and the CEO, Andrea Varnier, and composed by the Board of Directors, the founding members of the Foundation and the representatives of the municipalities of Milan and Cortina, the Lombardy region, the Veneto region, the autonomous province of Trento and the autonomous province of South Tyrol. After the speeches by President Malagò and the Minister for Sports and Youth, Andrea Abodi, President Mattarella greeted the present.
“We are now two weeks from the opening of the Olympics and just over a month from the Paralympics. It is a condition that still sees of course the finishings to be realized, as it has always been and not only in our country, but everywhere. There are some achievements that are not possible materially to do before and even if possible they are always completed in the last days. But there is an acceleration of commitment in the last weeks that accompanies the final finishing of what is needed,” said the President of the Republic.
After the Paris Olympics and Paralympics “we met the athletes and athletes who had won medals and even those who had reached the fourth place to show the importance of participation at such a high level. We will do it naturally after the Olympics and Winter Paralympics” added Mattarella.
“I would also like to express my congratulations on the choice of the Arena di Verona, for the solemn emphasis on the launch of the Games. It is not only to confer, with the immense prestige of the Arena of Verona, importance and solemnity at the Games, but also for the affinity that exists between music, song and sport. Music, the song serves to overcome the boundaries of the human, sport is used to measure itself with its own limits, to overcome them. There is an element of common creativity, between sports and art both indispensable in the growth and development of our country. It will be an adventure that will reward the initiative taken then, the success achieved and the consensus collected in our country and internationally are an award for the effort that unfolded” the words of the Head of State.
“I would like not only to emphasize the importance of Olympics and Paralympics, but also on this occasion to thank the Foundation and all those who in various responsibilities and in the various conditions and positions have contributed to this path because it was a gesture of courage, vision, that of launching you but it was a concrete path of operational commitment that has given the success that we see, because the two events bring to our Country prestige and place it in the center not of the world but of the attention of sport.
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