ROME (ITALPRESS) – “I expect important years and at the Los Angeles Olympics we are aiming decisively for a gold medal at both the men’s and women’s levels.” Federcanottaggio President Davide Tizzano said this during an interview with Italpress on the sidelines of the 2024 Golden Collars. “We declare it right away without hiding, so both athletes and coaches know (laughs, ed.) – continued the number one of the Federcanottaggio elected last November 24 – Maybe we won’t succeed, however, we are aiming for that. And I also believe in a territorial reorganization, we need many more competition camps that have been somewhat lost in these eight years. We will give each region a rowing field.” A new course that has recently started and that has ambitious goals: “We will be close to the athletes, but especially to the smaller clubs,” Tizzano added, “We will have to remember the path we took in the past, we will go back to investing in talent and young coaches, and above all we will bring back some enthusiasm in a world classified as the hard sport par excellence, but in fact we want to bring back the true value that is that of being together in a beautiful and socializing environment. At the management level, “I have created a beautiful team, a young group with a very low average age, I think it is the federal council with the lowest age ever,” continued the Olympic champion in the four pair in Seoul 1988 and the two pair in Atlanta 1996. I think we are on the right track to aim for something new and different with a particular appeal. Rowing is an aggregating sport that is done outdoors, we will also focus on the environmental sustainability of our activities.” No problems also with predecessor Giuseppe Abbagnale, who had been in office since 2012: “We found a personal square with him. I was his vice president; he has known me since I was 12 years old. We are friends, we are sportsmen and we look forward with a lot of attention to modernity, a little more technology and above all the well-being of the athletes,” he concluded.- photo Italpress -(ITALPRESS)
