Almost five million viewers for curling, in a country like Italy where football is the favorite sport, is completely unexpected. |
Everything is going fine. Last week we had sold 700,000 tickets and now we have a total of 789,000, so it is going very well. In the last two weeks, we have seen an explosion of passion. |
Everything is going fine. Last week we had sold 700,000 tickets, and now we have a total of 789,000, so it is going very well. In the last two weeks, we have seen an explosion of passion. |
If you reduce it too little then there's no visible change, if you reduce it too much you risk extinguishing it. It's not the same as using a burner at home. |
It depends on the events. It's true at some events there has not been much public. We are aware of it, but we're not particularly worried. |
It is a dangerous sport. |
It's not easy to take a lot of days off in a row. We should never forget that we have 175 sports events in 17 days. It's impossible to have all the events fully crowded. |
It's not just soccer. There's basketball and volleyball. Everything is going on. It's a competition. The Olympic Games should be seen in a wider sense. |
It's typical for Italians to do things at the last minute. We are also keeping back tickets to be sold on the spot. |
It's up to them to decide if any precautionary measures must be put in place. |
It's up to them to decide if any precautionary measures must be put in place. They will let us know if they want us to give specific information to the athletes. At the moment there are no cases in Piedmont. |
Obviously, you sell more tickets for a Winter Olympics in Switzerland than in Sicily. And since we have the euro and no border checks, it's normal to see more people coming from France than from Sicily, which is farther away. |
She was recorded ahead of the ceremony. Such a young child, it's difficult to send her (live) in such an event. |
The concrete attitude toward the environment is more important then symbolic gestures. |
The real story is that we had 9,000 people in the Piazza Castello and more than 10,000 in Piazza San Carlo where the big screens are [during the opening ceremony]. The whole town was partying until 2 in the morning. It is a great success and people are having fun. |