I thought our former football President was greedy, selfish, power hungry and delusional, but apparently he has an equal counterpart in Gravina. Some people just lack common decency. 

Well, it's possible that Italians may be more bitter towards short track officials after the robbery they perpetrated against Sighel at the Olympics and therefore more willing to comment and criticize them, but it doesn't make the decision any less ridiculous.   Also, the fact we are Italians, and therefore used to the low standards of football refereeing, makes us especially qualified and trained to identify biased/crooked/incompetent judging 

I think it was never in the history of our sport has there been anyone as brazen and stupid as Gravina. Before presidents would resign, or at least hide for a while, rather than go into a full-blow scandalous attitude with full larrogance and pride. I hope this idiot gets fired anyway, even if he doesn't resign.

2026 WA Open Water Swimming World Cup #1/4  - Soma Bay   Results (March 27-28, 2026)   Men's 10km: 1. Florian Wellbrock   2. David Betlehem   3. Domenico Acerenza   4. Marc-Antoine Olivier   5. Andrea Filadelli   6. Marcello Guidi   7. Gregorio Paltrinieri   8. Dario Verani   9. Mateo Garcia Castro   10. Pasquale Giordano   11. Fabio Dalu   12. Luca Karl   13. Alessio Occhipinti   14. Hunor Kovacs-Seres   15. Sacha Velly     Women's 10km: 1. Moesha Johnson   2. Ginevra Taddeucci   3. Lea Boy   4. Maria de Valdes   5. Bettina Fabian   6. Lisa Pou   7. Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas   8. Angela Martinez Guillen   9. Linda Caponi   10. Barbara Pozzobon   11. Giulia Berton   12. Margarita Ershova  (Russia) 13. Leonie Martens   14. Caroline Laure Jouisse   15. Callan Lotter     Mixed 4x1500m: 1. Germany  (Boy - Martens - Klemet - Wellbrock) 2. Hungary   3. Spain   4. Individual Neutral Athletes  (Russia) 5. China   6. Egypt     Results   Next Stop: WA Open Water Swimming World Cup #2 in Ibiza  (April 24-25, 2026)

Joking aside, apparently discussions are ongoing with ECB and CI for some kind of euro 6 Nations in T20 cricket - apparently the idea at this point is automatic qualification for England, Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands, while the final two places will be decided at a Tri-series in which Italy will be the only automatic entry, more or less guarnteeing Italy entry - from there, its two parallel Tri series with a finals day. Apparently inspired by the rise of Nepal and the Asia Cup, English cricket think they can make a short sharp tournament of this sort financially viable, as it would involve only three T20 games over 5 days in the early season, and they could rest the biggest players while getting some goodwill from ICC - previously they had not shown interest in a comp the Scots and Dutch have always wanted.

Hey, no fair.   It's a rugby monolith too!

men's Trap   Gold:  Alessandro De Souza Ferreira Silver:  Driss Haffari Bronze:  Jean Pierre Brol Cardenas   Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3279/results

women's Trap   Gold:  Erica Sessa Silver:  Jessica Rossi Bronze:  Mar Molne Magrina   Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3279/results

Now just gotta wait for the official cricket qualification document to make sure is a guarantee.

As I said elsewhere, Italy is a baseball / softball and cricket country now.