More Italians are engaging in
sport on a regular basis, the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI)
and national statistics agency ISTAT said Thursday.
The numbers were up from 21.5% of Italisn in 2013 to 25.1%
last year, they said.
The proportion of Italians doing sport occasionally also
rose, from 9.1% to 9.7%.
But the number of couch potatoes is still high.
More than a third of Italians, or 23.1 million people aged
three and above, have a sedentary lifestyle and do not practise
sport or any other physical activity in their spare time.
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