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Bach meets with Giorgetti and the Italian sport leaders Private audience with Mattarella tomorrow

THE VISIT OF IOC'S PRESIDENT

7novembreThe IOC in Rome for 48 hours of high institutional profile. The President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach, together with the Director-General Christophe De Kepper and Vice President Juan Antonio Samaranch jr., arrived in the afternoon at Foro Italico to begin "two days" of appointments, opened by greeting the INOC President Giovanni Malagò, Secretary General Carlo Mornati, Vice Presidents Franco Chimenti and Alessandra Sensini, and the Italian IOC members Franco Carraro, Mario Pescante, and Ivo Ferriani. (Photo Mezzelai-GMT Sport).

 

The IOC delegation, together with the Italian sport leaders traveled subsequently to Palazzo Chigi for a meeting with the Italian Under Secretary at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in charge of sport Giancarlo Giorgetti. The day will end with celebrations organized at the Olympic Stadium for Mario Pescante, at the end of his mandate as an effective CIO member in the year in which he has celebrated his 80th birthday. Pescante has been appointed an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee.

 

Finally, tomorrow morning, Bach - with the delegation of the biggest international sports organization - will be received in private audience by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, before flying with Malagò, and the respective staff, to Malaga to attend the European Olympic Committee Assembly scheduled in Marbella from 9 to 10 November.

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