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From 30 August to 3 September Miwool will be there capital of European horse riding. The San Siro racecourse will host the Fei Jumping European Championshipthe European show jumping, which will put up for grabs three Olympic passes for Paris 2024. The event, organized by Epiqa, Rcs Sport& Events, Sport e Salute and the Italian Equestrian Sports Federation, was presented in Milan at Palazzo Marino. The event – explains the mayor of Milan Beppe Sala – is part of an idea of ​​urban transformation that is becoming very central in that area of ​​the city with international sporting events of this importance, concerts and, between 2026 and 2027 also the final of soccer Champions League.

An opportunity, that of organizing the European show jumping championship in the temple of horse racing in Milan, born two years ago. This sport has given me some satisfaction in my past as an athlete – recalls the president of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontanaappointed honorary president of the organizing committee — and this is another opportunity to confirm the ability of this territory to attract and organize important events.

The appointment, which arrives on the weekend of the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Monza, returns to a long summer in which Milan placed itself at the center of the international sports scene: from the World Fencing Championships which start next Saturday to the World Cup in gymnastics, passing through some matches of the women’s volleyball European Championship (to be played in Monza)in a city where the ferment is growing which will lead to the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics and which looks beyond, with the Champions League final and the candidacy for the 2032 European football championship. Rome has lost the opportunity to organize the Olympic Games – the provocation of the president of Coni Giovanni Malag – and then long live Milan.

The number one of Italian sport underlines the importance of the event also from an Olympic point of view: When you play an opportunity like this at home you undoubtedly have an important psychological advantage. We are hopeful of returning to Pariswhere in 1900 Gian Giorgio Trissino won the first Italian Olympic medal on his horse Orestes, and to do so in Italy which, for the third time, is hosting a European Championship after San Patrignano in 2005 and Rome in 1963. Milan arrives after two years of running in with two editions of the Milan Jumping Cup – adds the president of Sport and Health Vito Cozzoli – and with this European we raise the obstacle further.

Pressure and ambition go hand in hand, but Fise president Marco Di Paola shows optimism: The strongest nations have already qualified. Switzerland is missing, but our goal must be to position ourselves among the top three still without an Olympic pass. I’m confident because we’re doing a good job, but it’s clear that this is the only sport in which, in order to compete at the maximum, the rider-horse combination needs to be in the best possible shape. There will be the best in the world, in the only Olympic discipline in which men and women compete together and there will be fun.

Having fun even outside the context of horse riding. why an area dedicated to other sports will also be set up in the racecourse: We called it Milano Green Village – explains the managing director and general manager of Rcs Sport Vito Bellino – and we want it to become a free space in which different sports disciplines can contaminate each other. Also in the background is the redevelopment of the racecourse which, as explained by the president of the event’s organizing committee and CEO of Snaitech Fabio Schiavolin, has undergone a series of interventions to make it even more beautiful and functional.