Winter Olympics ended. A great celebration of beauty and joy at the Arena di Verona. Sports success, thirty medals and a bronze podium that has escaped us for a silver medal of Holland (not only counts the number but the hierarchy and the prestige of the same medals) but above all success of image for Italy.
Where the term image is declined in many variations: efficiency, safety, organization, tourism, economic return, structures destined not to be cathedrals in the desert but works that remain for citizens, beginning with the improvement of mobility. You are an example, said number one of the CIO, Kirsty Coventry, and Giovanni Malagò is sure that in four years the French will copy our format.
A new format, the so-called widespread Olympics, where a technological and financial city like Milan and our Alps has mixed with wisdom. The brands like Cortina but also the historical slopes and the new slopes, the valleys, the territories. A success not of Made in Italy as a product but of Made in Italy as a capacity in the complexity of an event of these proportions.
The great beauty but also the great modernity, the work of men and women, certain athletes but also the forces of order and volunteers. Our country has set aside for a while the spirit of Guelphs and Ghibellines and has found itself a team. A winning team.
Our premier Giorgia Meloni, present at the closing ceremony of Verona, recognizing the work of all and the people who make our country great, has returned on a battle horse: the Italian pride, the pride of being Italian. He had said that in the early days of his mandate that only by going around the world he had noticed how good we were but that especially they told us, they recognized him. On the other hand, we are often just vittimism and we are venting.
A pride and emotion that will last for a long time, Giorgia Meloni repeated. Part of the curtain on Milan-Cortina 2026 but now space, and media importance, to the Paralympics. Ready to tifare our athletes again.
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