Giovanni Malagò, the head of Italian Olympic Committee CONI, and Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, the head of the committee for Rome's bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, will attend a forum at ANSA's headquarters on Tuesday.
Malagò and Montezemolo, the former president of Ferrari who is now at the helm of Alitalia, will discuss the Italian capital's bid for the Games and Italy's medal hopes for this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, among other issues. Rome has high hopes of landing the 2024 Olympics. The capital hosted the 1960 Olympics and carried off a largely successful edition of the World Swimming Championships in 2009.
Many of the required sports facilities are up and running and would only need upgrading, including the Stadio Olimpico, home to Serie A clubs AS Roma and Lazio, which has a running track for athletics.
Indeed, Rome says its bid would be a relatively low cost one.
The bid dossier is based on three sports 'poles', the Foro Italico that includes the Stadio Olimpico, Tor Vergata and the Fiera di Roma trade fair complex.
It said the costs would amount to relatively low 5.3 billion euros, compared to 13 billion envisioned in Rome's aborted bid for the 2020 Games.
However, with event expected to generate 2.1 billion euros, the net cost would be 2.1 billion.
Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone is set to create the "soundtrack" for the bid.
Rome is up against competition from Paris, Los Angeles and Budapest for the 2024 games.
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