in Cortina the Olympics also canceled the playground

It’s easy to say Olympic. The biggest global sporting event, which from February 6 will occupy the Italian Alps with a wasteful and very expensive circus, constantly praised by a bass drum of complacent information, involves a series of side effects it amazes you. Because this makes no sense and goes against the logic of good administration. I had proof of this in front of a confused audience Cortina d’Ampezzowhere I present and discuss Mountains of moneypublished by Paper First, an unflinching journey into the scandal of the Milan Cortina Games 2026. The upcoming phase gives us an estimate of the costs (which are not yet certain). two billion euros for organizations led by Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026, and others five billion euros for sports, road and rail infrastructure.

Cortina was changed to total construction sitebut more than the big numbers, while awaiting the final balance of the expected money-losing Olympic budget, it is the minimal stories that tell us how unreasonable business-focused policy choices are, with the attendant consensus consequences. There is no concern for the practical impact on the population resulting from creates deep woundswhich arise from choices that are not made together and do not aim to achieve the common good. The debate moderated by journalists demonstrated this Marina Menardi which took place in the Hall of Culture of the Posts and Telecommunications Building, which was designed and built by architect Edoardo Gellner for the 1956 Olympic Games, the first Olympic Games held in Italy.

In Cortina, next to the tennis courts and rock climbing gym named after Lino Lacedelli, on the edge Ronco Forestthere is a magical hill that the city administrators have decided to allocate Sopiazes playground. A good project, consisting of 22 recreation areaschanged name “Dream Garden”. Swings and slides, sand games, wooden towers, stages, micro world of elves. But also a children’s performance arena, barbecue and picnic facilities, access for wheelchairs and people with disabilities.

Inclusive parks, designed to benefit families, cost money one million euros to the Municipality of Cortina d’Ampezzo, one of the two Olympic cities. When it was inaugurated in 2021, the Mayor was there Gianpietro Ghedinawho proudly wore tricolor sashes, there were women dressed in Ampezzo style and, most importantly, there were school children who were celebrating. Ghedina is the mayor who won the Olympic bid with Milan in 2019. Two years after the ribbon cutting, his successor Gianluca Lorenzi he canceled the park and with it those small and big dreams. That hill is planned and larch trees were cut down to make way for building sitesPizzarotti Companywho built a very expensive bobsleigh track that would be used by a handful of athletes.

Within days, the green structure disappeared, revealing an unsustainable disproportion between the two 124 million euros from a risky arena to an ice cathedral with an uncertain future, and millions of euros painstakingly invested by the Municipality. This is a demonstration of how Cortina was an earthenware vase among the iron vases of the masters of the White Circus. Compared to a village municipality with a population of 5,000 Milan Cortina Foundation (the Olympic organizing committee), to the Società Infrastrutture Milano Cortina (the government’s operational agency for major works), to the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure, to the Regions of Lombardy and Veneto, to the rich autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano. a dust, disturbance, snowflakes in a snowfall that make easy money and complicated projects. In fact, the gears were brutally removed, without anyone feeling the need to ask what the people of Ampezzo really wanted.