The Italian government pushed through a last-minute decree Tuesday providing more autonomy for the country’s Olympic committee in an effort to prevent the team from being suspended for the Tokyo Games.
The council of ministers approved the decree just before Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte tendered his government s resignation to President Sergio Mattarella amid on ongoing political crisis.
It comes just a day before the International Olympic Committee was due to decide whether to impose a humiliating probation on Italy’s team for the Tokyo Games this week because of a two-year domestic dispute that it says amounts to government interference.
Govt passes CONI autonomy decree to avert IOC sanctions
IOC s Bach expressed satisfaction says CONI chief Malagò
26 Gennaio 2021
ROME, JAN 26 - The cabinet approved a decree to
guarantee the autonomy of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI)
and avert sanctions from the International Olympic Committee
(IOC) in one of its last acts, with Premier Giuseppe Conte set
to resign on Tuesday.
The IOC had warned Rome that a recent reform of Italian sport
undermined CONI s autonomy.
It was expected to take action at a meeting of its executive
committee on Wednesday, with a suspension among the possible
penalties.
This would have meant Italian athletes would not have been able
Italy govt legislates to avoid Olympic Games ban
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Rome (AFP)
Italy s government on Tuesday pushed through a decree guaranteeing the independence of the national Olympic Committee (CONI) to offset the threat of a ban from the Olympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee s (IOC) Executive Committee meets in Lausanne on Wednesday with Italy facing sanctions for not respecting national sporting body CONI s independence. The Council of Ministers has approved the decree which guarantees the autonomy of CONI, sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora announced. Now the last word is up to the Parliament to make it law.
The emergency decree was approved shortly before the resignation of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.
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