“When you ask for public money to organize a sporting event, you can't do it pub style. You cannot think that a good offer that generates popular enthusiasm is enough for the government to immediately reach out and fund you. If anyone wants World Athletics Championships in Rome If he had had an approach that respected institutions and procedures and had taken action at the right time, we would not have reached this stage.” Minister of Sports Andrea Aboudi Rejects to the sender the accusations of not supporting the candidacy that, to use the language of athletics, Italy has not even reached the right track: a few hours before the challenge with Beijing over the allocation of the 2027 World Cup, yesterday in Glasgow Vidal withdrew his candidacy “for the absence of minimum requirements for participation in the comparison “. Well-Advertised Idiot: Aboudi warned President Mai last week that “in the absence of specific regulatory authorization, formalizing the required spending commitments is not technically possible.” the The World Cup will be held in Beijing, India has a strong candidate for 2029.
“The government did everything it could – explains Al-Aboudi – by asking Vidal again last November United Nations plan of action Which had been needed before, but did not arrive until January 24th. With all good intentions, it has proven impossible to find general safeguards to cover this problem The requirement is 85 million eurosL. Then the Minister strongly rebuked Capitoline Sports Advisor Alessandro Onorato (“His tone is surprising: 100 days before the European Athletics Championships, we are still waiting to hear about Roma Capitale’s contribution to the event”) and explained that “it is a wonderful sporting event, the event is a source of satisfaction, but “It assumes an approach befitting the economic commitments that must be made. When it comes to guarantees of tens and tens of millions of euros, it is no longer just a matter of mathematics, but rather a matter of careful business management and evaluations and not a rough and emotional approach.”
Clues that the nomination might fail have been circulating for some time, and were not solely linked to a lack of public funding. Two months ago, after a series of warnings from a concerned continental federation, Sports and greetings It has intervened through a soft commission in the organizing committee for the European Championships to be held in Rome next June, well behind schedule: not a good calling card for an event less complex than the World Cup. “In October, November and December – explains Aboudi – we were facing great difficulty for the Europeans, in an almost unpresentable situation. We put the patch on it. But how can we think about organizing it? The World Cup costs ten times that amount Without securing what awaits us in June and with Roma Capital, which has not yet determined the economic contribution? “It's nice to go to fashion shows, inaugurations and concerts, but then you can't make irresponsible statements.”
On the European front, data on very modest pre-sales also leaked It is among those tickets that the IAAF has very high expectations of leaving a legacy on the region: at the London 2017 event, the last on the Old Continent, 705,000 tickets were burned, that is, almost 400,000 spectators. So the last World Cup in Italy (and Rome) will still be the one held in 1987: there were Carl Lewis, Edwin Moses, Francesco Panetta and Maurizio Damilano. Mathematical archeology.
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