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More than 100 folks turned as much as protest over the 2026 MilanCortina Olympics, regardless of the inclement climate.
MILAN: More than 100 folks turned as much as protest over the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics, regardless of the inclement climate.
Around 150 folks gathered within the pouring rain on Saturday exterior the development web site for the Olympic Village in Milan.
Many held banners and placards in opposition to what organizers of the protest known as “the most unsustainable Games ever.”
One signal was within the form of the Olympic brand of 5 rings, with the phrases “concreting,” “gentrification,” “greenwashing,” “privatization” and “eviction” written within the circles.
Each of the circles was later smashed.
The march was organized by the Comitato Insostenibili Olimpiadi (Unsustainable Olympics Committee) in opposition to the rising prices and environmental injury, with lower than two years till the beginning of the Games.
Organizers mentioned that in addition to the price of the a lot-debated bobsled monitor in Cortina and different building work, the mountains had been being destroyed as tons of of bushes had been being reduce down.
They railed in opposition to the choice to rebuild the century-outdated monitor in Cortina, “spending more than 100 million euros of public money on a sport that is practiced by only 20 people in the whole of Italy.”
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