The President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano - 50 days to the XXII edition of the Winter Olympic Games - has entrusted the Italian flag to the Olympic flag bearer, the luger medallist Armin Zoeggeler, and to the Paralympic athlete Andrea Chiarotti. The azzurra delegation, guided by the President of the CONI, Giovanni Malagò, the General Secretary, Roberto Fabbricini, the President of the...

The National Board of the CONI, meeting in Trento on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the Universiade, has approved the amount of the prizes relating to any medals won by the azzurra at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Confirming what had already been established for Vancouver 2010, which is €140,000 for gold, €75,000 for silver and €50,000 for the bronze.

The Samsung–CONI agreement has been introduced today in Milan for the next Winter Olympic Games that will take place in Sochi from 7 to 23 February 2014. The President of the CONI Giovanni Malagò, together with the President of Samsung Electronics Italy, Sung Wan Myung, and the Vice president Carlo Barlocco, have presented the joint initiatives planned for the next Olympiad. Samsung, top...

We are pleased to announce that, following the London 2012 Olympics, the partnership between Giorgio Armani and CONI (Italian National Olympic Committee) is set to continue. Indeed, Armani, as official outfitter, will supply the entire sports kit and all formal wear worn by the Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the Italian teams participating at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and the Olympic...

They are intense days of testing in the wind tunnel for the speed men and women of the World Cup. The two groups are in fact submitting to complete, thanks to an agreement between Ferrari and the Italian Winter Sports Federation under the auspices of the CONI, a series of aerodynamic tests in different positions and at different speeds varying between 90 and 110 kilometres per hour. “We put...

The President of the Italian National Olympic Committee, Giovanni Malagò, has chosen Armin Zoeggeler as flagbearer of Italy in the next Olympic Games of Sochi 2014. The Olympic champion, born in Merano on 4 January 1974, will be the 20th azzurro flagbearer in a Winter Games (out of 22 editions), the third luger after Paul Hildgatner (1984 and 1988) and Gerda Weissensteiner (1998). Zoeggeler...