Malagò and Montezemolo meet the sheik Al Sabah
This afternoon in Washington, at the end of the XX ANOC General Assembly, the President of CONI, Giovanni Malagò, and the President of the Committee for the promotion of the Rome 2024 Olympics, Luca di Montezemolo, had a private meeting with the President of ANOC, the sheik Ahmad Al Farhad Al Sabah.
The meeting, which lasted more than forty minutes, helped bring into focus the current state of the international sporting scene and update the President of the Association of National Olympic Committees on the state of progress of the Rome 2024 candidature.
Summit between Malagò, Montezemolo, Pescante & Bach, to check the status of bid
The President of the Rome 2024 Olympic Bid Committee Luca Cordero di Montezemolo met with the International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach in Washington DC today to update him on the status of Rome’s strategic plan to host the Olympic Games.
Mr Montezemolo, joined by the President of the Italian Olympic Committee Giovanni Malagò and the Italian IOC member Mario Pescante, pointed out the main principles of the plan. Luca Montezemolo said: “Mr Thomas Bach appreciated our decision to share the whole project with the Green Organizations, our social approach, the main focus on the athletes, technology, sustainability and the legacy. Rome 2024 has a unique chance to modernise the whole city and to stimulate growth for the whole Italian nation”
UN General Assembly approves Olympic Truce for Rio 2016
The 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly today approved a resolution for observance of the Olympic Truce for the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro next summer. The resolution was supported by 180 out of 193 UN member states. Speaking to the General Assembly in New York on Monday, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach reiterated the important role that sport and the Olympic ideals can play at the service of society by promoting peace, fair play, tolerance and understanding.
“The Olympic Games are the time when the values of tolerance, solidarity and peace are brought to life. This is the time when the international community comes together for peaceful competition,” said the IOC President. “In the Olympic Village, we see tolerance and solidarity in their purest form. Athletes from all 206 National Olympic Committees live together in harmony and without any kind of discrimination. This is the true spirit of ‘Olympic Unity in Diversity’ – athletes from every corner of the world, living together under one roof,” he added.
The resolution calls for the Olympic Truce to be respected from seven days before the start of the Olympic Games until seven days after the Paralympic Games. During his address to the General Assembly, the President also appealed for help from the member nations to identify top-level athletes who are currently refugees.
“At present, none of these athletes would have the chance to participate in the Olympic Games even if qualified from the sports point of view because, with their refugee status, they are left without a home country and National Olympic Committee to represent,” he told them. Announcing that the International Olympic Committee will invite the highest qualified refugee athletes to participate in the Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro 2016, President Bach added, “having no national team to belong to, having no flag to march behind, having no national anthem to be played, these refugee athletes will be welcomed to the Olympic Games with the Olympic flag and with the Olympic anthem. They will have a home together with all the other 11,000 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees in the Olympic Village. This will be a symbol of hope for all the refugees in our world, and will make the world better aware of the magnitude of this crisis”.
The resolution, entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal,” was formally submitted to the General Assembly on behalf of the Olympic Movement and Brazil by the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro 2016, led by its President, Carlos Nuzman. President Bach underlined that the Organising Committee is working to deliver an inclusive Olympic Games. “The values of tolerance, solidarity and peace are a central part of Rio de Janeiro’s legacy for the Brazilians. These will be inclusive Games – and a unique opportunity to showcase sport as a key tool for peace, social inclusion and tolerance, and in the fight against racial, ethnic or gender discrimination. Through the Olympic Games, the Brazilian people will remind the world of their unique combination of passion and efficiency.” President Bach said. The Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro will take place from 5 to 21 August 2016 and be followed by the Paralympic Games from 7 to 18 September 2016.
Lillehammer 2016 have revealed the route for the Torch Tour
Lillehammer 2016 have revealed the route for the Youth Olympic Torch Tour. It will ignite 21 cities across Norway, far and wide, starting from January 2016. Pictured here is the stunning view of Stryn, the 7th city on the tour (Ole Eltvik's picture). In 113 days, the 2nd edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games will be held in Lillehammer from 12 to 21 February 2016.
Malagò and Pancalli meet the directors of EUR Spa: synergy for the candidature
Today, at the Foro Italico, the CONI President Giovanni Malagò, together with the President of the Italian Paralympic Committee and Vice President of the Committee for the Promotion of Rome 2024, Luca Pancalli, met the President of EUR Spa, Roberto Diacetti, and its Managing Director, Gianluca Lo Presti.
During the meeting a synergy plan was drafted in relation to the Rome 2024 candidature, to promote the strong sport vocation of the facilities at Eur, already protagonist of the 1960 Olympic Games, and to share the use of the Pentagon, thanks to the New Conference Centre "La Nuvola", a convention and exhibit node that from 2017 will be one of the players in the organisation of major international events.
Summit in Bonn, Bid Vice-President Luca Pancalli meets the CEO of the IPC Xavier Gonzalez
Today marked the first meeting of the Rome 2024 bid committee with the International Paralympic Committee, as bid Vice-President (and Italian Paralympic Committee President) Luca Pancalli met with IPC CEO Xavier Gonzalez and Integration Director Thanos Kostopoulos in Bonn.
Rome will forever be linked with the Paralympic movement as the 1960 Games in the Eternal City marked the first time that the Paralympics and Olympics were held side-by-side. Rome 2024 continues to embrace the values of inclusion and participation represented by the Paralympics and bring them to the fore in activities planned to promote the Italian bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2024.
In the meeting, Pancalli presented the venues earmarked to host the Paralympic disciplines and discussed the many initiatives attended recently by Paralympic athletes, such as Oxana Corso and Alessio Sarri (meeting with school administrators on October 8th) and Annalisa Minetti (yesterday with the students of the University Tor Vergata). These initiatives, the Committee pointed out, will allow Rome to create a real legacy in the application period, with training sessions organised in schools to deepen understanding of the Olympic and Paralympic values to young people.
Great appreciation and interest was also expressed by the IPC towards the start-up and training centre under construction in EUR (southern area of Rome) City of Paralympic Sports Tre Fontane (Three Fountains), which will become a world-leading venue.
Vice-President Pancalli commented: "This demonstrates the seriousness of Rome also in Paralympic terms"
Guadagnini new Director of Communications
Fabio Guadagnini, 51, will be the new Director of Communications of the Rome 2024 Committee. He will head up all press and social activity from Rome to promote the Italian candidature to the 2024 Olympic Games. Guadagnini, a journalist since 1993, joins the bid from Fox Sports Italy, where he was Director and Vice Chairman. Guadagnini has Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature from the IULM University in Milan.
Montezemolo and Malagò meet students of the University of Rome Tor Vergata
The reasons, the vision and the objectives of the project of Rome’s bid to host the XXXIII Olympic and Paralympic Games will be the key points of the meeting dedicated to the students of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, that will take place on Monday, October 19th, at 10 am, at the lecture theatre of the Economics Faculty.
Rome 2024 President Luca di Montezemolo, CONI President Giovanni Malagò, the Dean of the University of Rome Tor Vergata Giuseppe Novelli and Beniamino Quintieri, of the Economics Faculty of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, will attend the event.
Two Italian athletes that competed in the 2012 London Summer Olympics will also attend the event: Valerio Aspromonte, fencer and Gold medallist in London 2012, and Annalisa Minetti, bronze medal in 1500 meters at London Paralympic Games.
Declaration by President Malagò
Giovanni Malagò, President of CONI, issued the following declaration:
"Following my electoral mandate in this quadrennium (and hopefully also in the next, having obtained the backing of my peers), I am absolutely devoted to supporting the organisation and reform of Italian sport to the best of my capabilities, making it more and more one of the shining lights of our Country.
Rome, my city, which I love, deserves a government that is up to this challenge, for the good of all and for national prestige. We are working to try and bring the 2024 Olympics in the Capital of Italy. This, and only this, is my vision for the future."
The Olympic education reaches schools
A new initiative will see more 460,000 Italian children receive an education in Olympic values over the next two years as part of Rome’s bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Rome 2024 Organizing Committee, with President Luca di Montezemolo, and the Regional Education Office (Urs), represented by General Director Gildo De Angelis, today signed a partnership agreement, in front of a parterre of 300 school administrators, with the objective to define and implement a program of Olympic education among young people and children that will take place during Rome's path to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2024.
According to the agreement, the Rome 2024 Committee will cooperate with educational institutions on the following objectives:
• Helping to improve national sport activity among young people from early school age (including children and young people with disabilities).
• Promoting healthy lifestyles and nutrition
• Valuing diversity and social inclusion, promoting gender equality, educating against all forms of bullying and violence
• Building, from primary school age up, conscious new generations and to prevent, in this way, violence, bullying and racial and gender discrimination
• Organising meetings with teachers on issues related to the Olympics, and providing them the right tools to explain to children the transformative effect that the Games will have on their city.
A joint working group made up of three representatives of Usr Lazio and three of the Rome 2024 Committee, which will cooperate with CONI, School Policies Department of the Common of Rome and CIP will work together to reach this goal . If Rome is chosen to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the program, which also involves the supply of multimedia kits, organization of competitions and workshops, will be extended to a national level. An important initiative, explained Montezemolo, because school is the most important thing in society: "It allows everyone to start from the same condition and compete on equal terms in the most important race, the race of life". "This is the starting point of a journey - said de Angelis - to be developed over the next two years through the implementation of initiatives aimed at the accomplishment of the educational value of sport giving the opportunity to our students to develop a new sport culture".
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