After Germany, the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Roadshow continued today in Paris. The Paris stop was centred on an event in the evocative setting of the Embassy's Sicilian Theatre, where the International Roadshow promoted by the Milan Cortina 2026 Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Sport and Youth, the Lombardy Region, the Veneto Region, and the Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano was held.
'The Milan Cortina 2026 Games,' Ambassador D'Alessandro said in her speech, 'will first and foremost offer the opportunity to return to breathe that atmosphere of celebration and unity that we know well here in Paris, having had the good fortune to experience the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. An extraordinary experience during which, for over a month, all the streets and squares of this city and a bit of all of France were animated by the Olympic spirit, the celebrations of the fans and the extraordinary performances of the athletes. This is how it will be (I am sure) for Milan Cortina 2026 as well, as the Olympic and Paralympic Games transcend the simple sphere of sport and become moments capable of uniting the world, inspiring the younger generations and reinforcing the essential values of our living together, such as peace, friendship, hope and team spirit'.
"We are extremely grateful to the Ambassador of Italy in Paris, Emanuela d'Alessandro, and all her staff, for the splendid and warm welcome she has reserved for the upcoming Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Games," said Andrea Varnier, CEO of the Milan Cortina 2026 Foundation. "There is an indissoluble and undeniable bond between Italy and France. Cultural, linguistic and, of course, also sporting. The Paris2024 experience represented a lot for us. And, in turn, we hope to be a springboard for the 2030 edition of the French Games. Suffice it to say that almost 6,000 French people have already applied to join the Team26 of our Volunteers and, again, that France has always expressed great passion and attention towards winter sports. And we realise this with the numbers of tickets already purchased by our French cousins."
Also speaking at the conference were the Lombardy Region's undersecretary in charge of sport and youth, Federica Picchi, the Veneto Region's councillor for territory, culture, security, migratory flows, hunting and fishing, Cristiano Corazzari, the secretary-general of the French National Olympic Committee, Astrid Guyart, the president of the French Paralympic Committee, Marie-Amélie Le Fur, and the director of the Olympic Pole at the French National Olympic Committee, André-Pierre Goubert.
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