The facility was inaugurated at the Giulio Onesti Olympic training center. The president of CONI: “Today we are very happy, but this structure has a troubled, very Italian history”
“Let me say it, without controversy.” Giovanni Malagò thus interrupts his enthusiastic speech for the opening of the new multifunctional building at the ‘Giulio Onesti’ Olympic training centre. He is “very happy” with the result obtained, “I’m not saying we live for this, but it’s one of those moments that reward us for the work we’ve done”, but the CONI president wants to take a few pebbles off his shoe: “This facility has a troubled, typically Italian history. This structure was imagined and designed by Coni Servizi, then the interregnum of Sport and Health, in the meantime there was Covid and war, costs increased, budgets revised. I don’t really want to do no controversy, but this arena was the site of a formidable clash between me and the previous government: I thank Minister Abodi, who initially did not follow me on this topic, but enough is enough. Just 700 were reserved for the world of sport million of the 209 billion funds provided for Italy by the PNRR, which were also distributed in a wicked way: many of the plants under construction are in great difficulty because the funds are not sufficient. The last straw, then, is not having given even a cent to CONI , which represents the Italian State, a non-profit organization that is building a building like this. A scientific, bad, wrong thing. An absurdity.”
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The Minister of Sport Andrea Abodi was also present at the inauguration of the beautiful facility: “The pleasure of being here is great, not so much because of my role, but because there is part of my life here. I grew up in this center , I entered it for the first time in 1970 and I am not someone who forgets my past. Today the happiest person at this inauguration would be Giulio Onesti himself: he would have been enthusiastic about this structure, a multifunctional, accessible building with all the features which must have a modern structure, predisposed to a now necessary technological intelligence, efficient from an energy point of view. An inauguration like this is also the consecration of sport in the making. Many sports disciplines will find a place in this arena, it will be a place of excellence of Olympic and Paralympic preparation, a place for sports practice. Great credit to CONI, with the support of Sport and Health, a collaboration that I am happy about because I see it slowly consolidating.”
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The structure, equipped with an integrated photovoltaic system that contributes to energy management and designed for the recovery of rainwater, contains a full-height multipurpose gym and a lower body on the three east, south and west sides which houses the changing rooms and other spaces to support the system. Built in the area of the former riding track, it is spread over an area of 44×26 metres, with an average height of 12 meters which makes it suitable for hosting different sports disciplines such as badminton and parabadminton, basketball, 3×3 basketball, wheelchair basketball, volleyball and sitting volleyball (with removable flooring), gymnastics (artistic, rhythmic, trampoline, acrobatics and aerobics), five-a-side football, handball, roller sports (figure skating and rink hockey), boxing and disciplines such as judo, wrestling, karate and martial arts and with a wall dedicated to sport climbing being set up outside.
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