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The CONI president spoke to Casa Italia, at the end of the Beijing 2022 expedition: "For our Games we will need funding, we are already late. The average age of the medalists is 26, an important figure considering 2026" .
Sunday 20 February 2022 4 minutes reading time
All in all a positive balance, and on the one hand it is a shareable analysis considering the number of medals, seventeen, second only to the twenty of the unrepeatable Lillehammer 1994.
On the other hand, the critical issues of the Italy Team that greets the Beijing 2022 Games exist and the only two Olympic titles won are anything but a coincidence. Giovanni Malagò did not hide, evaluating every detail of the blue expedition to China, in the classic end-of-event conference at Casa Italia. An even more important greeting considering that the next five-circle edition will be that of Milan-Cortina 2026. “The average age of the Azzurri medalists in Beijing was around 26 years. It is an excellent signal for the next Games - analyzed the president of CONI - I have always said that we would have won between 13 and 17 medals, but only two are gold and a numerical reading could summarize that the Italians are much more good at winning medals and titles.
A matter of pennies, injuries, judgments, but it's something to think about. From a quantitative point of view it remains a record-breaking expedition and it is evident that we are multidisciplinary as no one is (Italy, for the first time in its history, has won medals in eight different disciplines). From the qualitative point of view of the medal table this can be an element of weakness, but from that of sports culture it is an added value. If we look at the disciplines that won medals between Tokyo and Beijing we are at 28, this ranking sees us in third place in the world behind the United States and Russia.
On Milan-Cortina 2026, an urgent plan is needed: "We requested a contribution to plan four years at best - explained Malagò - In words, every week has been the good one to unblock the situation, even if we are already late because we were already expecting it between September and December. Here it is a question of taking boys and girls aged 15 to 18 who, for a four-year period, must be included in a very specific reasoning. Those who host the Olympics always do much better than a "classic" edition, we will have many wild cards. The real topic of our Games, however, will be the atmosphere which will be very different from the last editions, even if here in Beijing it was particularly affected by the pandemic ".
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