MESSAGES

Enzo GHIGO - Piedmont Region President

The Region of Piedmont is honoured to be hosting the XX World Mountain Running Trophy, at one of the venues where the 2006 Winter Olympic Games will be held. We are also proud that for the fifth time, an Italian town has been chosen as the setting for a competition with such a high profile from the sporting, environmental and moral point of view.

The considerable number of teams and athletes expected from all over the world gives us the confidence that the event will be a great success both technically and in media terms.
We all know that these will be very challenging competitions, and because of this the number one priority is the health of the athletes, along with the importance of keeping drugs out of sport, which as a region we support with promotional campaigns aimed at the younger age groups and in schools, as well as during many sporting events.

All that remains is to hope that all the participants do well in the 2004 World Championship in Sauze d'Oulx, and that the XX World Mountain Running Trophy goes down as an event which played a part in raising the profile and awareness of the Olympic Mountains during the summer months, the sunny "green" side of the bright "white" world of snow and skiing.


Read the other messages:
Lamine DIACK / Gianni GOLA / Danny HUGHES / Enzo GHIGO / Ettore RACCHELLI / Roberto VAGLIO / Silvana ACCOSSATO / Maria Evelina BERTERO / Roberto FAURE