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Alessandro Antinelli reloads on Paolo Petrecca: they had proposed Stefano Bizzotto

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He didn’t shy away from Alessandro Antinelli, a journalist and the face of the Raisport newsroom, of which he is a member of the editorial board, in taking stock of the situation regarding Paolo Petrecca, who ended up in the eye of the storm after a less than flawless conduct of the telecast of the opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.

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Antinelli, interviewed by Fanpage, told some background. “On February 3, we had a meeting with the staff and director Petrecca. There he tells us ‘I remove Bulbarelli, I do the commentary.’ I advise him against it, and I tell him this in front of the industrial relations representative, who is a big shot. Fabrizio Tumbarello, who is the president of Cdr” also reiterates it to him.

Petrecca, however, went on his way. “We told Petrecca that he did not have the skills to do this thing at all. Ceremonies are difficult, you have to study the flags, the characters there, the flag bearers. I didn’t humiliate him, I didn’t tell him he didn’t have the culture at all. It is simply a separate job, you don’t improvise. You have to have Olympism, some Olympic experience”.

Among the names proposed as an alternative was that of Stefano Bizzotto. In vain. “Here we have people who maybe did six World Cups, five Olympics, not exactly fools. You instrumentalize an affair that is not political, they say there is the conspiracy, the communists, the left, but it is not so. Among the nearly 70 who have withdrawn their signatures, there are many right-wingers and there are also those few who had voted in favor of supporting Petrecca”.

“What matters is something else: that the ratings are going well because there are people working from 8:30 a.m. to midnight. We are not him. He is one thing, we are another” concluded Antinelli.

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