In the Milan-Cortina dossier “priority to site selection for speed skating competitions, after the renunciation of Baselga di Pinè. There are two options on the table: the Fiera di Rho, the Milan proposal presented in detail today by the managing director Varnier, and the Oval in Turin. On 29 March the Foundation’s proposal evaluated with a comparative framework will be brought to the Cio while the final decision is set for April 18“. This is what was decided by the control room for the works and interventions relating to the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, as stated in a press release from Palazzo Chigi
The control room
At the opening of the meeting “Minister Abodi announced the decision to share the chairmanship of the Cabinet with the Deputy Prime Minister Salvini and the entry of Minister Locatelli”. This is what emerged from the control room that met today at Palazzo Chigi in relation to the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games‘. This can be read in the press release from Palazzo Chigi. The table, chaired by the Minister for Sport and young people with responsibility for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Andrea Abodi, was attended by the undersecretary of the Prime Minister, Alfredo Mantovano; the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini; the Minister of Economy and Finance, Giancarlo Giorgetti; the Minister for Disabilities, Alessandra Locatelli. Also present were the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano; the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè; the Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso; the undersecretary to the Prime Minister, Alessandro Morelli; the undersecretary of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security Claudio Barbaro; the president of CONI and of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Foundation, Giovanni Malagò; the president of the Cip, Luca Pancalli; the CEO of the Foundation, Andrea Varnier; the president and managing director of Infrastrutture Milano-Cortina 2026, Veronica Vecchi and Luigi Valerio Sant’Andrea. The presidents of the Lombardy and Veneto Regions, Attilio Fontana and Luca Zaia, took part; the mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala; the mayor of Cortina d’Ampezzo, Gianluca Lorenzi; the president of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Arno Kompatscher and the mayor of Verona, Damiano Tommasi.
