Milan is the country’s most modern city, but it has no special winter sports traditions. But it’s Milan. And, of course, go to Cortina, with its history and alpine skiing experience. They have a very strong tradition in curling. They have a great history in bobsled and sliding sports. Then go to Anterselva. This is his one of the best and most well known. biathlon site in the world. Then there is Val di Fiemme, where Nordic sports have a very long tradition. Several editions of the World Championship. So the infrastructure is already in place. Yes, it should be modernized. But it’s already there, so there’s no need to build it.
Most of the competition venues already exist, saving you money and time. But how do we connect all this?
It’s important to understand that you have a new system. Because if the concept works, it means other countries have more chances to host the Olympics. For transportation, for example, we will enforce intra-cluster transportation and encourage the use of public transportation between clusters whenever possible.
We are trying to streamline this entire system of the Olympics, and hopefully we can think of the Olympics in order to involve a larger area and a larger population in potential future organizing committees and candidate cities. I would like to leave it as a legacy so that I can. Use your existing infrastructure.
Is it because the IOC cannot ask cities and countries to spend $50 billion, as Russia did at the Sochi Games? Because no one wants to host it?
The risk is that no one will host the Olympics in Europe anymore. Winter Games. The Summer Games are another story. And Europe, after all, is the epicenter of winter sports. So, respect to all of you. Born here, and the Alps are the Alps.
Games need to be held everywhere and in as many countries as possible. But in Europe it will be very difficult unless we find another system. Because this country is still a G7 country and if it can’t afford to host the Olympics, who can afford it?
