Greeting from the President Anesi

It is with great pleasure and with a little pride that I bring you the greetings of the Italian Orienteering Sport Federation on the occasion of the publication of the first information bulletin of the World Cup which will take place in Italy, in Genoa, in Liguria, in 2024: a splendid preamble to the World Championship which will take place two years afterwards.
With great satisfaction we welcomed the attribution by the IOF of these World Championships which complete, after the difficulties caused by the pandemic, a path of great events proposed by Italy for the development of the sport of orienteering. And with great pride we accepted the challenge of being throughout Italy to promote our sport thanks to the prestige ensured by major events.
After the great success of the 2022 Master World Championships organized in the centers of Puglia and in the Umbra Forest, this year Italy will host a European Sprint Championship in Veneto and a MTB World Cup in Trentino, in 2024 the World Games with SciO in Lombardy and precisely the CO World Cup in Liguria and the SciO at the Universiade in Turin, the Junior World Championships in Lombardy in 2025 and finally the World Championships in 2026 in Genoa.
As you can witness and you will see, a strong commitment on the side of the IOF and FISO (thanks also to the promoting committees of the various Italian locations) has been and will be able to offer events of great technical sporting value for a four-year period under the banner of the constant growth of a movement which in Italy has many fans and supporters.
Certainly, it will be a considerable administrative, organizational and economic commitment but we also look at it with confidence in consideration of the organizational capacity of the various committees and the proximity of bodies and institutions as well as the great availability of a volunteering movement which has no equal.I would like to offer the greetings from FISO to all the Federations,

to all the Athletes and to all the Nations that will decide to be present in Genoa on the 2024 and 2026 – and I would also like to express my thanks to the IOF for the trust placed in us and send my best wishes to the organizing committee which, with the commitment of the two competitions in Liguria has taken on an important international responsibility which will have considerable legacy both for the development of the sport of Orienteering in Italy and for the economic and social impact that the events will have on (and in) Liguria.
In particular I would like to express the gratitude of FISO to the Local Administrations for the closeness guaranteed in the planning of the event, in particular to the Mayor of Genoa Marco Bucci, who has supported since the beginning this institutional journey – but I could not forget also the Assessor/Regional Minister Simona Ferro, the Assessor/City Minister Alessandra Bianchi or the President of CONI Liguria Antonio Micillo.
I would like to thank in particular the President of the World Championship Organizing Committee, the local authorities, the FISO delegation from Liguria, the regional CONI, the sponsors and the many volunteers who will be the real architects of what we hope will be the great success that major sporting events can guarantee.
We will have the opportunity in the coming months to illustrate in detail the programming studied and elaborated by the friends of Genoa to make the 2026 World Championship memorable. It will be an event of great sport, eco-sustainable, in friendship – that will enable us to discover even more a land of great environmental landscape value, which will guarantee all the participants strong and unforgettable emotions. For now, the most cordial greetings and best wishes for many sporting successes for this and next seasons with a progressive approach that can better prepare each athlete, hoping that sport will increasingly be able to unite us under the aegis (and under a special commitment) for peace and brotherhood…let sport unite every sportsman/sportswoman of every nation under the banner of the most meaningful values that also Orienteering can guarantee to those who practice it.