In Tbilisi, where the World Cup are underway, the President of the Federscherma Luigi Mazzone presented the program dedicated to autistic athletes and with intellectual disabilities to the FIE
Italy leads a great international project for fencing fencing. This is what emerged in Tbilisi, in the round table “Fencing for the Planet”, organized by the FIE, the international federation. A focus dedicated to the issues of environmental sustainability, social responsibility and inclusion in sport. Precisely on the latter crucial topic was the president of the Italian Fencing Federation, Luigi Mazzone, who presented the project dedicated to inclusion and social value of fencing to the International Federation. In an introduction that resumed the contents of the recent training webinar organized by the working group “Fencing for the intellectual disabled” of the FIS, Mazzone illustrated how, how much and why the platforms can be the ideal place of integration and inclusion, with particular reference to autistic athletes and with intellectual disabilities. In short, fencing, as an educational and aggregative tool, in the wake of a vision based on scientific evidence that Italy is carrying out and which in 2026 will lead to the organization of a circuit of integrated team competitions.
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Precisely on this point the leaders of the Fie, with the interim president Abdelmoneim Elhusseiny and the general secretary Gulnora Saidova, have expressed their great interest and the will to follow the Italian project to transform it into a great moment of international breath. “Fencing for All” will therefore be able to extend on a world scale: the FIS has confirmed availability and will to organize these integrated team competitions in Italy, in which each training will host at least an autistic athlete or with intellectual disability on the platform. An initiative of sporting value, but above all human and cultural, which strengthens the commitment of fencing on the inclusion front.