ROMA (ITALPRESS) – First the inauguration of December. Now Olympic accreditation. A new recognition for the new Fmsi anti-doping laboratory in Rome, on the eastern outskirts of the Capital. In the presence of the vice president of the Council and foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, of the Minister for Sport and Youth, Andrea Abodi, and of the president of the Fondazione Milano-Cortina 2026, Giovanni Malagò, the senior director of the Wada, Olivier Rabin, after carrying out a last verification, has officialized the site as a reference antidoping laboratory of the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Milan Cortina 2026.
A structure that “in so many will admire”, with “a winning location”, explained Malagò. A “long and troubled” path, Abodi added, recalling that “the commitment was respected.” “I also thank Parliament as well as colleagues from the government. It is the demonstration that the team game produces extraordinary effects, even in times of defeat we have never been prisoners of objective difficulties. The sense of duty has led us to reach the goal,” said the Minister for Sport and Youth during the press conference.
“This workshop is a way to say that Italy is an excellence,” added Tajani. “This result is of great importance, because I am convinced that the image of Italy comes from a series of things, sometimes even less known to the general public. It’s not just diplomats and ministers who do foreign policy. Having a laboratory of excellence, one of the few in the world, in Rome, ready to be a center of high scientific and research level qualifies our country, allowing it to have great sporting events and to make known the high scientific level in the specific field of the fight against doping and research”, the Foreign Minister closed.
To do the honors of home was the president of the Italian Medical Federation, Maurizio Casasco: “This workshop is an excellence and I must thank Minister Tajani who was the first promoter with the budget law for the realization of this new centre. Thanks also to Minister Abodi, a true creator of this work, put on the ground by the team of Sport and Health”.
Finally, the closure of Olivier Rabin: “It was a long path built on credibility and mutual trust. The times were very short, but the Fmsi antidoping lab once again proved to be able to achieve very important objectives. A center of such a high level is a pride for the whole country,” said Director Wada.
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