Here’s how many medals Italy will win at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Milano-Cortina- Corriere.it

The whole sports world envies us, only here in Italy are we under attack because someone wants to change our operating model. CONI deals with Olympic and high-level preparation with documentable results of excellence: if they want us to do something else, they must provide us with the resources. Bringing sport to prisons or suburbs is very noble but additional money is needed. The someone to whom Giovanni Malag referred when presenting the report The positioning of Italian sport at the Olympic level Sport & Healththe MEF spa which wrested control over the distribution of public resources from the federations from Coni and contested their operational powers.

The competitive results of the decade 2013-2022 illustrated by the secretary general Carlo Morati they are eloquent. Italy is the seventh world power for medals (57) won in the last editions of the Summer and Winter Games, the fourth for number of sports (28) in which we have scored, an indication of an advanced multidisciplinarity: ahead of us only the USA and , by a little, Russia and Japan.

To those who always quote the virtuous models of our neighbors, CONI responds with 1,079 podiums from 2013 to today in multi-sport events against 755 in France and 497 in Spainto. 2022 was a record year, the point of maximum growth after the 2000 crisis and the trend reversal that started in 2012: in the various European championships we won 119 medals in the disciplines of the Olympic programs against 90 in Great Britain and 87 in France and Germany.

The most reliable quality assessment index of competitive sport that weighs all disciplines and major competitions (Nielsen Gracenote Index) places us in 7th place in the world, a fraction of points (3.99 against 4.04) from France, sixth . For this reason, Coni deems it reasonable to bet to 61 medals overall at the 2024 and 2026 Gamesfour more than the previous four-year period despite a 45% increase in the number of nations on the podium.

What worries Malag is the country’s low birth rate: The others are growing in terms of population and we are not – he explained – and therefore Italians must have more children because there will be problems even in the short term. On the sidelines of the Council – certified self-suspension of the representative of the technicians Emanuela Maccarani, the rhythmic coach under investigation – Malag spoke of the possible abolition of the three-term limit for federal presidents. A proposal will be evaluated, then the government authorities will decide. A proposal to amend the law will be presented through CONI which will be an interested but not involved spectator.