From Beijing to Qatar, a 2022 full of sports
On a sporting level it will be a 2022 with eyes on Asia, where the year begins and ends with two events that will be absolute novelties. One of these concerns Beijing, first city in history to host both the Summer Olympics – in 2008 – and the Winter Olympics, starting on February 4th. San Marino will be there, with a delegation still to be formalized and which will be received in audience by the Regents between now and the end. At the moment, there is the certainty of sending at least one athlete: they have reached the minimum Matteo Gatti (in special slalom and giant slalom) and Alberto Tamagnini, in the giant, but only one of the two will go to the Games. It will be decided by January 16th, when the best placed in the standings (at the moment Gatti) will be able to formalize the pass. And then there is Anna Torsani, that always in the giant is only one point from the threshold of 160, the minimum to qualify: if he succeeds by 16, there will be two blue and white in Beijing 2022.
March it will be the month of engines – on the 6th the World Championship begins, on the 20th the Formula 1 – and of the play-offs for the soccer World Cup, With the‘Italy in spite of himself involved. The European champions will face the North Macedonia in a dry race on March 24, in Palermo: should win, on 29 they would play it all out with one between CR7’s Portugal and Turkey.
with May instead under col Tour of Italy – which starts on 6 from Budapest – and of the European football cup finals: on 18th the Europa League, on the 25th the world premiere of the Conference League and on the 28th, in St. Petersburg, the Champions League. Highlight of the summer i Athletics World Championships, in Eugenio, United States, from 15 July: after the glories of Tokyo, Italy is preparing to drop its 5 Olympic gold medals, Marcell Jacobs – at rest for the whole final of 2021 – Gianmarco Tamberi, the 4×100 and the walkers Massimo Stano and Antonella Palmisano. then, from 1 September, the European Basketball Championships, With the“Italy organizing country” together with Germany, Georgia and the Czech Republic.
Italy again the protagonist of a great event starting from 13 November, when Turin will host the tennis ATP Finals for the second consecutive year. Finally, from the November 21, the closure with the bottom: Qatar 2022, the first ever soccer world cup to be held in the autumn of the northern hemisphere. With the hope of not being disinterested spectators again.