Adnkronos – 23 May 2024 | 12.56pm
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Rome, 23 May. (Adnkronos) – After the Paris 2024 Games we will have to vote for a new Olympic cycle with the renewal of federal positions. Igino Rugiero, who was extraordinary commissioner in 2019, announced his candidacy to lead the Uits. “I have decided to run for president for the next four-year Olympic period.” “As extraordinary commissioner, the role held required me, on government mandate, to standardize the Uits to the new Coni regulations and therefore to review the statute by pointing out regulatory aspects that have been unchanged for years which have probably disoriented the Uits a little”, explained Igino Rugiero in an interview with Adnkronos. “I was the first to put forward the candidacy but I imagine that others will follow and already now I wish them good luck. I think about myself, I’m already setting up the team, together with a group of people, who are the ones with whom I have continued to keep in touch, we are working at a national level, in the area, to get our message across and to make myself known. for what I am today, not as an extraordinary commissioner but as a member of the Spoleto shooting gallery. We need a ‘political’ vision from the president.”
Rugiero, born in Rome in 1965, an army colonel, then recalls that he has “never stopped following with discretion and great attention the various problems that continue to worry Uits” and that he also follows “the events at a sporting level” in the hope that “Olympic and Paralympic results can be improved”. “One of my ideas, if I were elected president, is to evaluate together the possibility of giving the national teams a single federal structure where they can carry out all the preparatory activities preparatory to the different types of events to be faced. I would immediately get busy reopen contacts with Defense services to verify the availability of state-owned areas suitable for the objective which may not be immediate, but which in a future perspective would finally give prestige to the national Olympic and Paralympic team in Italy and in the world”.
Among the other important issues that Rugiero will pursue in his campaign are: “review together with the section presidents the territorial regulatory aspect which suffers from the lack of base-top contact, and reopen working tables with the Ministry of the Interior to address historical never resolved problems relating to institutional activity which are very close to my heart and I believe to all the presidents of the Tsn sections at a national level who I will want to listen to one by one to understand together how to manage and resolve them”. Furthermore, on the structures which are all property of the defence, we must also “start to review the methods of management, verification and control of the usability of the installations, in coordination with those responsible for the Army. This means that when it is necessary to obtain a usability or renew it, it will be necessary to ensure that the Uits can also offer structured and updated technicians to support the army infrastructure departments responsible for the territory to raise awareness of the checks to the real sporting and institutional needs of the sections which are certainly much more emancipated today of the past to which the reference regulations refer”. There is also a discussion to be had and addressed with Sport and Health “linked to the need to reabsorb or legally and legally realign the Uits staff who hopefully will finally find the right path towards the solution”.
Another important point is how to broaden the base of practitioners. “I would like to identify a manager with consolidated experience in the sports sector who, with the collaboration of the regional committees, can finally re-establish the promotion of the sport of target shooting in schools, to make it clear that non-dangerous weapons are used and that approaching of young people to our sport would give them an extra chance to socially fit into an external context and get closer to a sport in which the mental and individual aspect would certainly also bring benefits from a psycho-physical point of view, and would certainly distract young people from other things that are much more dangerous than our weapons, without underestimating the fact that there is also the possibility of joining military sports groups, another fundamental aspect of a discipline like this”. “’Together with you and with you’” I would base my mandate on this if I were elected”.
