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G.S. Fiamme Gialle
The President of the Province, Maurizio Fugatti, welcomed the protagonists of the 2020/21 season. Among them also Giovanni Franzoni and many other talents.
Friday 7 May 2021 9 minutes reading time
The Palazzo della Provincia Autonoma di Trento hosted the award ceremony for the young athletes of the Fiamme Gialle Skiing Group of Predazzo who, in the winter season that has just ended, achieved excellent results on an international level.
The event, held in compliance with anti-contagion regulations, was held in the evocative setting of the "Sala Depero" in the presence of the President of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Maurizio Fugatti, the Councilor for sport Roberto Failoni, the President of the Federghiaccio Andrea Gios, the Vice President of the Italian Winter Sports Federation, Angelo Dal Pez, the President of the provincial CONI, Paola Mora, the President of the Trentino Committee of the FISI, Tiziano Mellarini, the President of the Trentino Committee of the FISG, Paolo Deville, the representative Trentino in the Milan-Cortina 2026 Foundation, Tito Giovannini, the Trentino Marketing representative Matteo Rossi and the member of the provincial Olympic coordination in view of the 2026 Games, Pietro De Godenz.
For the Fiamme Gialle, in addition to the Commander of the Sports Center, Brigadier General Flavio Aniello, there were also the Regional Commander of the Trentino-Alto Adige Guardia di Finanza, Division General Ivano Maccani, the Commander of the Alpine School, Colonel Sergio Lancerin, and the Commander of the V Athletes Unit of Predazzo, Lieutenant Colonel Gabriele Di Paolo.
Among the youngsters on the catwalk also the new junior supergiant world champion, Giovanni Franzoni, and the rising star of the Italian short track, Pietro Sighel from Trentino, medaled this year at both the World and European Championships. With them also the biathlete Linda Zingerle, the cross-country skiers Elia Barp and Alessandro Chiocchetti and the combinatist Iacopo Bortolas. These guys, some Financiers in all respects like Franzoni and Sighel, while the others will be in a few days at the end of the Course for Allievi Financiers at the Alpine School of Predazzo, have been able to make themselves brilliant protagonists despite the many difficulties related to the pandemic, emergency which obviously did not spare the world of sport either.
The few competitions, the distorted calendars, transfers and modified protocols, have not stopped the desire to emerge of these young athletes, who working hard together with the Fiamme Gialle and the technical staff of the sports Federations of reference, have been able to achieve important results in numerous competitions. of international level category. Results that follow the trail traced in recent years by the most titled club mates at an absolute level such as Sofia Goggia, Luca De Aliprandini, Alex Vinatzer, Dorothea Wierer, Martina Valcepina and that bode well for the 2026 home games. '' precisely on this challenge, the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, which the Fiamme Gialle are already projecting today, together with the institutional partners who have always supported them, to try to transform these young hopes into champions capable of conquering high-profile results at the Olympics.
In opening the series of speeches, General Aniello underlined the strong bond that unites the Fiamme Gialle with Trentino. In presenting the awarded athletes, Aniello defined them as “ambassadors offered by the Fiamme Gialle on the plate of the organization of the next Olympic Games”. Addressing those present, he then added: “It is up to you, as it should be, to plan and design integrated interventions, especially infrastructural ones. I am sure that you will be able to enhance this splendid territorial reality as never before in the next world showcase. In this sense, we are ready to contribute - as we have always done at major events - with our support in terms of human, logistical and material resources.
From the most congenial point of view - the purely competitive one - we are starting from now on girls and boys who have the mission to accomplish in mind ”. In his speech, Councilor Failoni said: “This council loves sport and is attentive to sport. Trentino already has the 2026 Olympics in mind, these guys are perfectly in line with the age to aspire to be protagonists in the Games at home. We have high expectations in you. For Trentino, sport is health, but it is also economy. Therefore sport assumes a 'strategic importance for this territory'.
In closing, the host Maurizio Fugatti wanted to congratulate the Fiamme Gialle for the important results obtained and, looking at the athletes present, suggested not making them too responsible. The President of the Province also expressed a broader concept, which generally concerns the younger generations, "stopped" for more than a year due to the pandemic: "This pandemic is having repercussions on these young people also in terms of educational and social. These young people, whose sports activities have long been suspended, look to you, who have managed in these difficult moments to play sports and to win, as examples. You are models of athletes, but also models of life ”.
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