Winter Olympics briefing: final preparations amid the noise for Milano Cortina
What to look out for as the action gets under way in Italy despite the Games not yet beginning until Friday
In my opening briefing last week, I wrote that organisers were banking on the cultural pull of Italy – its architecture, food, history and fashion – to cut through any political noise surrounding the Milano Cortina Games. So far, that has not been the case. And the Olympics have not yet officially begun.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Milan’s Piazza XXV Aprile, named for the day Italy was liberated from Nazi fascism in 1945, to protest against the planned deployment of ICE agents during the Games. The ICE agents to be deployed to Milan are not from the same unit as the immigration agents cracking down in Minneapolis and other US cities. Continue reading...
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