We have the anthem, we have the flag. Except Mameli, except the tricolor. At the photo finish, but at the Tokyo Games the Azzurri on the podium will be able to sing “Fratelli d’Italia” and wave our colors. Averted the sanctions that the IOC – International Olympic Committee – had hypothesized against the Italian expedition. The Government yesterday approved the decree – already renamed «Save Olympics» – on the autonomy of CONI: it was there that the institutional game was played.
The first to comment on the approval of the decree was the Sport Minister Vincenzo Spadafora: «The Council of Ministers has approved the Decree containing the rules that sanction the autonomy of the Italian National Olympic Committee.
Now the last word belongs to the Parliament during the conversion ».
The issue was a thorny one. The Olympic Charter prohibits any Olympic committee from operating through the Government. Currently the Sport e Salute company is instead the operational arm of the Government: in October 2018 it replaced CONI Servizi and which had been delegated by the new government to distribute 370 million contributions to sports federations in place of CONI, to which 40 million left for the Olympic preparation. It was the beginning of a battle between government forces and CONI. A battle that still lasts.
Today it was reiterated that in the context of its functions, Coni cannot in fact be subordinated to a government company. The “Save Olympics” decree – which in fact looks like a victory for CONI president Giovanni Malagò who had been pushing for the decree for some time – comes as a patch to settle a matter that will inevitably trigger a lot of controversy. In September 2019 it had been Malagò himself – with an open letter to the IOC – to express “serious concerns” for the law approved by the Senate which defined the economic-financial framework of the relationship between CONI and «Sport and Health».
CONI president Giovanni Malagò immediately informed the number one in world sport, Thomas Bach, over the phone: “The law is ok, autonomy is safe.” “I’m very happy”, Bach’s reply. At this point it remains to be seen whether the Tokyo Games – postponed last year due to the pandemic and scheduled for summer in Tokyo – will be held, as scheduled, from 23 July to 8 August.
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