The event scheduled from 6 to 22 September in 4 regions has been presented NOVARA (ITALPRESS) – The World Wheeling Championships for the first time in Italy. The countdown has begun for the World Skate Games 2024 which will involve Piedmont, Lazio, Abruzzo and Emilia-Romagna from 6 to 22 September. An unprecedented experience in which all 12 disciplines practiced on wheels come together in a whirlwind of breathtaking emotions, a true youth festival where sport and entertainment mix. The first step was taken in Novara, home of the rink hockey competitions, with the presentation of the event in the setting of the Broletto monumental complex. “We live projected into the future and thanks to young people and this event represents all of this in the best possible way – began the Minister of Sport, Andrea Abodi – When we talk about numbers such as more than 100 participating countries, 12 disciplines, 4 regions involved, 12,000 athletes, 600 competitions, as is the case for the 2024 World Skate Games, it is clear that a huge challenge is being launched. A challenge which, thanks to the organizational capacity of the World and Italian Federations and the local organizational machine, will be met in the best possible way. for an event of extraordinary importance”. Abodi recalled that “the world event represents a meeting between peoples, through sport, for peace, inclusion, in symbiosis with the human being.
The future is not only about medals and victories, but also about inclusion, loyalty, solidarity and legality. Values fully represented by roller sports”. After the great success of the 2022 edition, staged on Argentine soil, in Buenos Aires, for the first time Italy will host the fourth edition of the World Skate Games, with institutional support both central, with the support of the Sports Department of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, and local, with the involvement and contribution of all the Regions and Municipalities involved, as mentioned, there will be four regions involved: Piedmont, Lazio, Abruzzo and Emilia -Romagna. “It will not only be the world championship on wheels, but a true festival of young people – remarked the president of Fisr and World Skate, Sabatino Aracu – An event to the rhythm of music, an essential soundtrack that will liven up every competition in a mix of tricks, jumps, emotions, sports records and team games. We are sure to guarantee an exceptional show and entertain and excite many people”. Novara will host the rink hockey and Italian national team competitions. The Piedmontese city has a centenary history in the discipline of rink hockey. For more than thirty years it has been a of the Italian sports capitals, thanks to his club and one of the most successful teams in all of Italy (32 championships). “I am happy and proud of the fact that our Novara can host the rink hockey World Cup – underlined Ivan De Grandis, sports councilor of the Municipality of Novara – Especially in the year in which we mark the 40th anniversary of the 1984 World Cup, held in our city, and the centenary of Novara’s hockey history. In recent years, we have worked intensely to improve the sports facilities of our city, starting with the Pala Dal Lago, a symbol of the history of Italian hockey. Novara will be ready for such an important event, both at a national and above all international level”. The World Skate Games will be an event with impressive numbers: 12 disciplines involved, including Olympic skateboarding, but also figure skating, racing skating , Skate Cross, rink hockey, inline hockey, downhill, roller freestyle, slalom, scootering, roller derby and inline freestyle, 12,000 athletes and teams will perform in twenty different locations, 600 competitions, 100 participating countries, over 100 TV broadcasters and media, more than 150 titles to be awarded, for the event which, at an international level, awards the most titles in the history of sporting events. Rome will also host the spectacular opening ceremony, scheduled for 6 September, at Piazza di Spagna, and beyond that young and urban, the World Skate Games Italia will also be a fully sustainable event, the costs of which will be amply repaid by the expected related activities, as demonstrated by the study commissioned by the International Federation, which made it possible to evaluate ex ante the socio-economic impact of the event. – Fisr press office photo – (ITALPRESS). glb/com 28-Jun-24 2.52pm .
