Winning, keep winning. Now it’s up to the kids, in Slovakia, in Banska Bystrica: the European Youth Olympic Festival is running until Sunday. The Team Italy, almost 100 blue from 14 to 18 years, led by the head of the delegation Alessio Boggiatto, former swimmer, is winning medal in swimming, athletics, judo, in many disciplines. Even before that, Italian sport had won in Tokyo, in Beijing, at the Mediterranean Games in Oran. To be a nation where sport in school almost does not exist, a nation where the rates of obesity and sedentary lifestyle of young people are very high, the results are surprising. We win and continue to win, and we are preparing for the Paris 2024 Games which are just around the corner. Coni is already at work: the head of Olympic training Carlo Mornati was also recently in Paris: his staff, which deals with logistics and sports organization, has been three times in the French capital. The head of communication of the Coni, Danilo Di Tommaso, also studied the French plans. The Olympics will be easier than in Tokyo: thanks to the distance, the Azzurri will be able to train in Italy and reach Paris, with Ita charter flights, only for competitions. Casa Italia has also been identified: a prestigious venue in line with what has been done in recent years, a flagship of Coni and its sponsors. Mornati hopes to see field hockey at the Games again, who knows if for the first time there will be women’s football (but it seems in decline), while great space is planned for hurban sports with breakdance that debuts after surfing, skateboarding and climbing. The fencing seems blue to have overcome a difficult moment, swimming and water polo continue to give a show (bravo Barelli). As well as volleyball. There are important, comforting promises: in Paris we will win again. 40 medals arrived in Tokyo, a record. In two years, according to some (virtual) projections, there could be as many as 44. Leaving Germany and Australia behind for a nation that is after all not very sporty like Italy would be an amazing result. But after Paris? If this winning sap is exhausted, they are pains. But for now we are on the podium. Even with the kids.
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