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The extraordinary Council of CONI deliberated unanimously the nomination proposal for the Olympic Winter and Paralympic Games of 2026 of the cities of Milan, Turin and Cortina.
Wednesday 1 August 2018 6 minutes reading time
As it was already clear in recent days, in front of the three nominations, with strong points and areas of weakness, after long negotiations with local governments - only yesterday evening came the "surrender" of the mayor of Turin, Chiara Appendino, and today his colleague from Milan Giuseppe Sala took a step backwards by withdrawing from any commitment to the governance of the project - CONI chose the path of geopolitics deciding to proceed with a unified Italian candidature that unites the three cities that are 600 kilometers apart from each other. we have seen previously.
The extraordinary Council unanimously endorsed the proposal set up by the Evaluation Committee on the 2026 Olympics: a patchwork built to the table "seizing the best of the opportunities in terms of costs and benefits", as Malagò said, of the three nominations. In reality, it is the result of long geopolitical negotiations, all to be validated, which involves extremely complex governance. If a recognizable name is missing and President Malagò hypothesizes a competition to find him, little is currently defined in terms of venues in the expectation of having from the next few hours a detail of the choices suggested by the Commission. Surely, and this was confirmed by President Malagò, the trespassing of St. Moritz in the Milanese dossier will fall, and the proposals of the South Tyrolean offices planned by Cortina seem to lose weight.
Since yesterday evening, the Government, by voice of the undersecretary to the Presidency delegated to the Sport, Giancarlo Giorgetti has put himself in a waiting position risking to put in further difficulty a weak candidature at birth: "We take note of the CONI proposal. we have still seen the dossier and on this we reserve the right to intervene by verifying the compatibility of the guidelines with those set by the Council of Ministers ".
The application will now be presented to the IOC and the first challenge to overcome will be the correspondence to the Olympic charter that, despite the jumps forward made with the Dossier 2020, does not provide for a nomination not referred to a specific host city. It will be necessary an exception that most likely given the shortage of applications will be granted as an exception or a change of program must be done as the IOC session that will decide is scheduled for next year in Milan and the rules of the International Olympic Committee do not provide the possibility of the session being held in a country involved in the application process. The race for the assignment continues among candidates with an uncertain step that in the next month of October will be reduced by the IOC on the basis of the first evaluations. In addition to the Italian candidacy, all to be built, are still in progress Calgary where local support seems to be waning and where in November there will be a popular referendum, Stockholm candidate without the support of the central government pending the next political elections, Sapporo that would prolong three the Asian winter games strip and only six years after Tokyo 2020, and Erzurum with all the security problems of a location a few hundred kilometers from the warm Syrian border. They are waiting, at the "disposal" of the IOC, Barcelona and Salt Lake City if it becomes evident the impossibility of identifying a credible candidacy; Samaranch junior and the US Olympic Committee could "sacrifice" and then move on to the collection.
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