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The minister of sport, Andrea Abodi, indicated to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni the figure chosen to lead the organizational machine of the next Winter Olympic Games: the profile of the new ad expected for months.
Monday 7 November 2022 3 minutes reading time
Milano Cortina 2026 finally finds itself with the most delicate role put in its place, more than two months after the change to which Vincenzo Novari was forced.
Andrea Varnier, 59, will be the professional who will take on the task of driving the car of the Winter Olympic Games that Italy will host again after Turin 2006, with the Veronese manager chosen by the new minister of sport, Andrea Abodi, as CEO of Milan Cortina 2026.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will formalize the appointment on Tuesday. We are talking about the current CEO of Costa Edutainment S.p.A., but above all a person with great experience in sports and in the organization of events closely linked to the world of snow, given that Varnier was director of images and events of the 2006 Turin Games, then a consultant for the This is for Beijing 2008 and involved in organizing the opening and closing ceremonies of the Rio 2016 summer five-circle festival.
“We will choose the profile of a person capable of getting on the running train from the height of a deep knowledge of the sports and Olympic world. The timing is tight ”, Minister Abodi indicated in the morning at the RCS“ Sport Industry Talk ”meeting.
Then the choice of Varnier, to start running again towards a very complicated Olympic edition in terms of infrastructures and logistics, considering the delays accumulated in the almost 3 and a half years that have passed since the assignment of the Games to Italy.
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