Flavio Roda between pride in results and support for Giovanni Malagò

Flavio Roda full-court press

Italian winter sports are healthy, and Fisi president Flavio Roda cannot but be satisfied with that. “Right now our athletes are important both as quality and as numbers and then because they compete in so many different disciplines. And this perhaps è the most important thing ever“ exclusively tells Sportal.it on the sidelines of the media day.

“I always tell our boys that they have to be sì good athletes, they have to be try to get results, but first of all they have to be an example for young people: their attitude and their way of posing è fundamental” he adds.

When Alberto Tomba quit there was a fear of backlash, instead the movement è still more solid and ambitious than it once was. “Many were bewildered, there were those who were convinced that there would be no tomorrow. But instead…” says Roda proudly.

Closing on Coni president Giovanni Malagò. “Coni è the federation of all federations, so you have to have a capacity and knowledge of the entire Italian sports system, of all the various federations: plus he è he è very attentive to the athletes and this is not è little: we are going towards a home Olympics that will really be a great opportunity for Italy, it would be a pity not to have at the head of what è the highest body of sport a person who is competent and who has the love for sport and for athletes as he has shown in these years Malagò”.