A splendid news for all sports fans from Umbria and beyond: this morning Michele Milli, the well-known and highly appreciated blind athlete of Kdk Fratta, will start at 11.00 towards Kazakhstan, called up for the Ibsa 2022 Judo Grand Prix scheduled from 25 to May 30th. This in view of the Europeans in September in Cagliari (the judoka’s participation is given at 99%) and above all at the Paralympics in Paris in 2024. A highly anticipated test by his many fans and his team, for which Milli has prepared himself with commitment and fatigue even training in the garage at home. Yes, because the sporting data – splendid – underlies another: the controversy between the Kodokan Fratta and the Tiberis football club for the management of the gym in the stadium in via Morandi, which has now reached the stamped papers. Yesterday afternoon the official announcement of the race awaiting Milli, who, with his usual humility, said he was “ready to face an important and not easy test”. Of course – he admitted – the controversies, the lack of adequate space for training, the movements in three “remedied” gyms, have not facilitated the preparation, but he will do all he can. Despite himself, the judoka has become the symbol of a “quarrel” that has saddened the local sport for months, leader of at least 100 youngsters – his club insists – “effectively left without adequate space to train”. In recent days, Tiberis, owner of the concession to use the “Morandi”, through its lawyer had put the dots on the “i”: the Kodokan will be able to use the stadium’s gymnasium at specific and certain conditions of times and spaces.
A position that Mirco Diarena, head of the Kdk, clearly rejects: “Tiberis – he says – with respect to the announcement, even if won, is totally in default by not guaranteeing the continuity expressly requested by it. There is a problem of compatibility of training schedules ( boys certainly cannot train in the morning when there is school); the rates that we should pay are not defined and on a logistical level we certainly cannot remove the tatamis (fixed to the ground) after each training, because it would take 12 hours. possible any activity given the peculiarities of our discipline “.
Hence Diarena’s appeal to a lawyer. For its part, the Municipality, after a series of completely unsuccessful mediation attempts, is finding a way out by turning to other companies and structures. “We are working on it with great commitment” – said the administrator.
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