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Francesco A. Armillotta
Andrea Chiarotti is the bearer of Italy to the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, which will be Head of Mission of the Secretary-General of the CIP, Marcus Junius De Sanctis. Torre Pellice Piedmont, in the province of Turin, born in 1966, Andrea Chiarotti for all 'Ciaz', was named this morning in Rome, during the VII National Board of the CIP, Standard Bearer of the Delegation d'Azur in the Paralympics in Sochi 2014 .
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Commented that a decision by the President of the CIP, Luca Pancalli: "It 'a choice, shared with the members of the National Board of the CIP, which is intended to reward not only the man and the athlete, extraordinary in both cases, and between the first to believe in a future for sledge hockey Italian, but an entire team, which has been able, in a few years, more precisely from the Paralympic Games in Turin in 2006, to become Cinderella from the Paralympic world of ice sports a wonderful reality capable of winning the European title in 2011 and a qualification that deserved to be at the 2010 Vancouver to Sochi 2014. It 'been a difficult decision, because even as a champion Enzo Masiello deserved this honor, but that stems from the desire to give a little but, I hope, significant signal in a particularly difficult time of life of our country, in which it is necessary increasingly out individualism, proving to be able to team up. Andrea Chiarotti is an expression of a team, a team, a group, the whole world Paralympic Italian, who worked together to achieve a goal sporty, but also that certification of their existence. I hope that this choice may represent a small but significant signal of the values ​​mentioned that our movement is rich. " "I am grateful to the Board for giving me the honor of leading our'' Representative for the sixth time - said the Secretary General of the Italian Paralympic Committee, Marcus Junius De Sanctis, who was appointed this morning Chief of Mission of the Italian Delegation to Sochi - I still strong within me, emotions that we lived in London in 2012 but I hope that the Sochi Games will convey the same emotions. " "I appreciate greatly the decision of the Board to appoint Andrea Chiarotti bearer of the Italian Delegation - added the Secretary-General - for the first find by my side the representative of a'' whole team." Chiarotti, which has, in the sa racing career, a former hockey player standing, is one of the pioneers of the Italian national ice sledge hockey, where he is captain, and with whom he made his debut at the international level, in 2005 , the European Championships in Zlin, in the Czech Republic Representative With Blue won, then, a historic gold medal at the European Solleftea of ​​2011. With the shirt of his club, the Sitting Bulls of Piedmont, has 4 league titles (2005, 2006, 2007, 2013). "I hope to reward those people who believed in me but especially those who believed in the whole team - said Andrea Chiarotti - because I represent an entire group and it is this extraordinary group that will bring the flag." "This today is only the'' last of the choices that the CIP has done to support us - has continued the'' blue - from the Paralympic Winter Games of Torino 2006, the CIP has believed and invested in us and that's something we are all extremely grateful and thankful. "
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