Attiva-Mente away in Rome
To complete the initiative “Let’s build the Paralympic future of San Marino together”, a representative of the Association will be received on Wednesday 6 July in Rome at the CIP headquarters, by the President of the Italian Paralympic Committee and member of the Board of the International Paralympic Committee ( CPI) Luca Pancalli. After some postponements due to reciprocal unforeseen events, the program of the Initiative is thus fulfilled, which was used on the sidelines of the Instanza d’Arengo discussed in the Great and General Council a few months ago, which asked to guarantee the practice of sports for people with disabilities in San Marino. Paralympic competition at all levels. The title given to the Initiative was not accidental as we consider sharing fundamental to address those critical issues, try to undo the knots that are generating big problems and find together the most appropriate solutions. The request was asked to take action by intervening from a regulatory point of view, if necessary, but by putting in place a true confrontation especially between the parties with respect to the question of the legal recognition of the San Marino Paralympic Committee (CPS), a subject never dealt with with decision even after the historic participation in the London 2012 Paralympics.
The Instanza d’Arengo, we recall, was approved unanimously but nevertheless, it seemed to us that we could see that a different will has been in place for some time, also different from the aforementioned parliamentary pronouncement, which tends to ignore once again the CPS. We hope that what happened in the last two summer Paralympics will not happen again, when the management of the CPS denied the participation of athletes by taking decisions and cells that we have strongly stigmatized. However, it also goes with honesty that since the CPS was legally developed (sixteen years ago), developed and internationally accredited, on the Titan it has always found, wanting to use euphemistic terms, little acceptance, support and sympathy. And this for those who observe us outside our borders is completely inexplicable. For Tokyo2020, an attempt was even made to circumvent it knowing that it is the only internationally recognized entity and therefore the only interlocutor of the IPC. The correct setting of the Paralympic projects, in line with the international orientation, is the one where one constantly relates to the National Paralympic Committee involving, depending on the discipline, the competent Federation. Furthermore, the National Paralympic Committees normally find a configuration in the internal sports system and are at least supported to carry out promotional activities. Well, despite a completely different and unshared vision of which we can only take it, we continue to place our trust in the San Marino sports institutions so that they, for the greater good of San Marino athletes and athletes with disabilities, take action responsibly to find a solution to an atavistic and increasingly unfortunate problem. That day in which the emotions, satisfactions and international competitive successes that the able-bodied white-blue athletes are giving us in these days will also arrive from the Paralympic world, will be a beautiful victory for the whole San Marino sports system. To Luca Pancalli, an old friend of Attiva-Mente (the Association presented his projects and objectives to him in 2004 in Rome), we will represent our attempt to stimulate a comparison between the Secretariat of State for Sport, the CONS and the CPS at aim to overcome the impasse and that we will continue, always favoring dialogue, with our other various awareness-raising activities, for a more inclusive Republic where rights are truly guaranteed to all. Furthermore, in the late morning we will have the pleasure of being received at the San Marino Embassy in Rome for an exchange of greetings. An invitation for which we feel very honored, which demonstrates not only the bond of friendship between the association and the San Marino institutions and fellow citizens residing abroad, but also their support and closeness to our initiatives and purposes.
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