Sport is always fruitful investment (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, September 28 - President Sergio Mattarella told Italy's Rio Olympic and Paralympic medallists Wednesday that "sport is always a fruitful investment, especially when the development of excellence goes hand in hand with sporting practice". He said these "should never be separated or contrasted". Mattarella told the medallists that "you were our flag in the Rio Games and you will continue to be so".
    Mattarella spoke at a ceremony at which the medallists returned to him the flags they bore in the Games.