The Mediterranean Games are officially open
from Roberto Chiesa
June 26, 2022
Simplicity, proud belonging, rigorous delays. Oran baptizes the edition in this way number 19 of an event born after the war and returned to the center today when the need for peace also passes through a series of hands clenched in the stands. There are representatives of the 26 Olympic Committees involved, but also the high offices of many countries. The stadium, traffic liking, is full. Participants parade under the grandstand where the Captains Regent and the Secretary Lonfernini. On the pitch and in the stands a din that tastes like a party, but when the speaker announces San Marino, San Marino does not come out. The delegation is held in a corner of the stadium waiting for a call that does not arrive. It is not a rudeness, it is Oran.
The Republic is then recovered when it would be the turn of others, and the flag so proudly carried by Alessandra Perilli and Enrico Dall’Olmo she is applauded and greeted by people who reserve whistles only for France, a former hostess and now a welcome guest. Italy, which as always overflows with young athletes and prospects guided by totems Diana Bacosi and Luigi Busà, has already completed his tour. The rest is a simple show based on national pride and a wholly Algerian sense of welcome. Thanks Oran the President of the Games Davide Tizzano, thanks for the investments on the plants and structures. He thanks for having been patient for a year, thanks for having had the chance to bet on the future of the Mediterranean. That never as this year calls the peoples overlooking the Mare Nostrum to give signs of rhythm also entrusted to the sweaty and improvised embrace of an edition in which nothing is as it seems and nothing seems as it is. When everyone found their bus and reached their accommodation, the African night is almost gone. And the sun announces the first day of the Games. Something will happen, just don’t follow the program. Oran is above all fantasy.
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