Italian Paralympic Award, among the winners also the director of Repubblica Maurizio Molinari

On the third day of the Paralympic Culture Festival, taking place in Milan at the Fabbrica del Vapore, the Italian Paralympic Committee presented the Italian Paralympic Award – a prize established by the CIP in recognition of all those personalities who have made a contribution to the dissemination of Paralympic sport and its values ​​- to the Director of Corriere della Sera Luciano Fontana, to the Director of the Republic Maurizio Molinari and to the journalist and writer Gian Antonio Stella.

The Italian Paralympic Award was assigned for the news that appeared on the front page of Corriere della Sera and Repubblica dedicated to the victory of Ambra Sabatini, Martina Caironi, Monica Contrafatto in the 100 meters T63 at the Tokyo Paralympics, a tricolor podium that entered the heart Italians. Same award to Gian Antonio Stella for the book ‘Various. The long battle of the disabled to change history ‘.

The awards were presented by the President of the Italian Paralympic Committee Luca Pancalli as part of a ceremony that saw the participation of many guests from the world of sport, entertainment and communication such as Elio and the tense stories, Gianluca Nicoletti, Novella Calligaris, RichardHTT, Simone Barlaam and the athletes and medal-winning athletes at the Epyg of 2022. The vice-director Francesco Bei received the award for Repubblica. “The 69 medals won by the Azzurri in Tokyo represent a flag for the many families who find themselves having girls and boys with problems and an incentive to push them to move forward and not keep them at home – said Bei -. The lesson that comes to us from sport teaches us that every obstacle that we face must be conceived not as an insuperable barrier but as a challenge that can be faced in order to overcome one’s limits ”.

“We are proud to be able to assign this award to personalities of the highest level from the world of journalism and culture in our country who have given an important impulse in making Paralympic sport and its values ​​known to the general public, at the same time stimulating public reflection on disability and inclusion theme. And we are happy to deliver these awards as part of the Paralympic Culture Festival, an event that has the objective of making a contribution to the civil growth of our country ”, declared Luca Pancalli, President of the Italian Paralympic Committee.

“In the interviews released by the three blue sprinters a phrase emerged: overcome the disadvantage to make it something great. Well, if this country did a hundredth of what the three blue sprinters did at the Tokyo Games and all the other Paralympic athletes, this would certainly be a better country ”. So Luciano Fontana, Director of Il Corriere della Sera.

“As Pope Francis said, each of us has a little treasure, just open it to bring out something wonderful. With my book I wanted to tell the disabilities of people who have managed to create incredible things. My goal is to bring people to understand this world better ”, added journalist Gian Antonio Stella.