“Two days before an international event you cannot make a decision of this kind.” Paolo Damilano, vice-president of the technical-organizing committee of the ATP Finals, has just concluded a meeting to deal with the case of canceled tickets. Among those present, the former mayor Chiara Appendino, the municipal councilor for sport Mimmo Carretta and Vittoria Poggio (regional councilor for tourism). “In the city there are people who have come from all over Italy, some even from abroad. The technical-scientific committee cannot take this step back to 48 hours from the start, ”added Damilano. Now, he explains, all that remains is to try to “stop this situation.”
Atp Finals, the great mess of canceled tickets. Protests float
Leonardo Di Paco
The hypothesis, which emerged during a rather tense meeting between the organizers and the local authorities (Municipality of Turin and the Region) is to ask the government for a 7% exemption for the capacity of the Pala Alpitour. A sort of middle ground between what was allowed by the Scientific Technical Committee – 60% – and what was hypothesized and promised by the government and CTS just over a week ago, 75%. One way to try not to have to return around 1,500 tickets for each race session – two a day – and to amortize the anger that has risen from last night among the fans who have arrived in the city and now with a ticket in hand that is waste paper.
The ball at this point passes into the hands of Rome, called to evaluate a request that comes within hours of the first match and above all it is difficult to match the rules imposed to contain the advance of Covid
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