Milano Cortina - PRIMA SPORT

Flavio Roda con raggiunge il quorum, avanza Antonio Noris per la presidenza FISI

11 Oct

Flavio Roda reaches a quorum, Antonio Noris advances to the FISI presidency.

Antonio Noris, FISI, Flavio Roda, Milan Cortina, Roberto Bortoluzzi

VERONA - His fourteen years as president and three terms already held put him in pole position for his fourth election as head of the Italian Winter Sports Federation. But Flavio Roda needed two-thirds of the vote to reassert himself, and in the end he received only 57.881 votes. He was not elected and cannot be re-elected. At the elective assembly in Verona, the city that hosted the closing ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Games last February, the person who launched the FISI's new course was Antonio Noris from Bergamo, who received 35.971 votes, but…

Bertagnolli, Mazzel, and De Silvestro: the most decorated team at Milan-Cortina is Paralympic.

Andrea Ravelli, Chiara Mazzel, Trento Sports Festival, FISI, FISIP, Giacomo Bertagnolli, Milan Cortina, Nicholas Cottini, Milan-Cortina Paralympics, René De Silvestro, Stephen Hawking

TRENTO - The impressive medal collection collected by two visually impaired skiers Giacomo Bertagnolli and Chiara Mazzel (and their respective guides Andrea Ravelli and Nicola Cottini) and monoski instructor Renè De Silvestro at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics brings to mind Stephen Hawking's prediction at the 2012 London Paralympics: "The Paralympic movement will change our perception of the world." Their successes, the growing public interest, and the very recent merger between FISIP and FISI (which brings together Olympic and Paralympic winter sports athletes) represent, for the five athletes present at the Festival of…

Seven bronze medalists at the Trento Sports Festival in Milan-Cortina

Charlene Guignard, Daniel Grassl, Trento Sports Festival, Lara Naki Gutmann, Marco Fabbri, Matthew Rizzo, Milan Cortina, Nicholas Macii, Sara Conti

TRENTO - 235 days later, the seven-man team that won the bronze medal in the figure skating team event met in the city of the Council of Trento for the first time since achieving this extraordinary result. Sara Conti, Marco Fabbri, Daniel Grassl, Charlène Guignard, Lara Naki Gutmann, Niccolò Macii, and Matteo Rizzo relived the magical two-day event that allowed Italy to win its first-ever medal in the team event and its third-ever figure skating medal, behind the United States and Japan. The two competitive pairs, Charlène Guignard and Marco Fabbri in ice dancing, Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii in…