European Joint Sport Special Olympics, “ready”

by Paola Arensi

The “Special olympics games Italy Laus open games” of Codogno, scheduled from 12 to 14 May, will be opened by the Arma. Yesterday the event was presented in the Town Hall. The colonel, provincial commander, Alberto Cicognani, anticipated: “The fourth regiment of carabinieri on horseback will arrive from Rome in the early afternoon of Friday, with the musicians of the Arma. The boys will give sugar to the horses and at 20.30 in the square there will be a one-hour free concert (in case of bad weather it will be at the Palacampus in via Papa Giovanni XXIII). The program includes well-known pieces by three opera singers who will also perform with arias by Ennio Morricone. With a final surprise”. The challenges will involve 500 kids, super athletes (even from the Olympics) with intellectual disabilities. “It is a high-level event that excites me, for which I worked together with the managing director of Sport Luigi Bassi – said the mayor Francesco Passerini -. Here it has been dreamed of for years, since before Covid”.

The three-day event will “invade” the sports facilities of the Sky Line (swimming pool) for beach volleyball, the Molinari stadium for athletics, the baseball field for badminton and the bowling alley for bocce. “They are a “play the games” of athletics and badminton and the first Minervino memorial, with interregional games of bowls, high-level and beach volleyball that we bring, for the first time, to a national level – clarified Alessandra Sanna, president of No limits Lodi – We are proud to launch it here. We have the Olympic protocol and many people will move. With so much stubbornness and determination, Claudio Minervino, who died in June, wanted this area to become inclusive and we are at the 17th edition of the Laus open games and we carry on the network that he created. This is the event par excellence”. Maria Giulia Monticelli of “No limtis” recalled the help for the reception “of a network of realities, 300 students, trade associations, photographers, sports clubs, Municipalities and emotions will skyrocket, I invite everyone to participate. We also made a t-shirt. Sport is lived with values ​​that perhaps no longer exist and the kids teach us.” “In the sports fields we will place two water distribution points – added Giuseppe Negri, president of Sal – and we will give a water bottle to all the athletes”.