Time.news – Waiting for today for the closing ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Francesca Lollobrigida, the last Italian to win a medal, will be the standard-bearer of the Italian expedition to China. At the end of the event there will be the handover with Milan-Cortina 2026.
“Italy is a monstrously multidisciplinary country, we are eclectic if we then consider the population of the United States and Russia”. These are the words of the president of Coni, Giovanni Malagò ‘in tracing the final balance of the Italia Team expedition to the Olympic Games from’ Casa Italia ‘in Beijing in relation to the number of disciplines in which the Azzurri have won at least one medal between the Olympics Tokyo’s summer and Beijing’s winter ones.
Italy won in Tokyo in 20 sports and in Beijing in 8. Ahead, in this special ranking, there are only the United States and Russia. “These numbers are a reason for great reflection on sports policy that will have to be developed with some urgency and at the same time are reasons of great pride”, added Malagò.
“It was a record expedition but I can say that it was a unique and unrepeatable experience but I can say that tonight we are returning to old and dear Europe where we will breathe the Olympic atmosphere”, explained Malagò again from ‘Casa Italia’ in Beijing. . That of the Azzurri is the second best result in history after the 20 medals of Lillehammer 1994which referring to the situation experienced following the restrictions applied by the Chinese government to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
“Young people do not play sports. I receive daily e-mails from mothers and some fathers, but above all mothers, who complain that they can no longer play sports due to the well-known story of the super green pass – added Malagò – second aspect, on how much human material can we count in the next decades? This is an epochal disaster resulting from the choices made in recent decades by our country. If we are about 60 million people, since 1994 we have lost 5 million Italians who today would have had the age to go to the Olympics. Third point, the lack of clarity that exists within the word sport at the legal level which implies a terrifying waste of energy “.
“I believe that a person should be fully dedicated in a calm and thoughtful way”. Then President Malagò gave the key to a solution. “The problem is solved in a minute, come a week with me to the office and understand what I’m talking about: unfortunately no one has put himself in the conditions of how things are”, concluded the number one in Italian sport, as well as a member of the That is, “he concludes.
The Italian medal table
Italy finished in 13th place in the medal table of the Beijing Olympics, with two golds, seven silvers and eight bronzes. The blue expedition is in ninth place if we consider the total number of podiums.
The 24th edition of the Winter Games was dominated by Norway with 16 golds, eight silvers and 13 bronzes, ahead of Germany (12 golds, 10 silvers and 5 bronzes) and China (9,4,2), followed by the United States (8,10,7) and Sweden (8,5,5).