THE INQUIRY
Turin, cathedral Olympic Games four years from the abandoned
Ski jumps, bobsleigh, slalom: "Installations millionaires in degradation." On the launch pad of the ski jumper became separated two avalanches of ALBERTO CUSTODERO

ROME - A sign posted on a metal grate that barricade the entrance of the Olympic ski jumps at Pragelato warns that "avalanche danger, prohibited access. A warning rather than real: the launch pad of the ski jumper, and on the runway, detached two avalanches. Is in these conditions, left to itself, ski jumping 2006 Turin that the world envies.
When it was built, had chosen - instead of a temporary structure to be disassembled after the Olympic event - a concrete solution from 34.3 million. And half the mountain had been cleared to create two and three jump racing home from school so that we continue racing operations in time, create a breeding ground for athletes of the Western Alps. And rent the facility to international teams. Just 47 months after the Olympics in Turin, Pragelato is the springboard of a cathedral in the snow, left to itself, as it is closed and unusable jumping hotel built at the base of the plant: a mega hotel with 120 beds. Sounds a mo 'mockery of the banner with the insignia of the "Torino Olympic Park" and the word "welcome." Traveling the Olympic sites abandoned 4 years from the Olympics in Turin.

The case of ski jumping is not isolated: in fact, all alpine plants in Turin in 2006 (the fund always at Pragelato, biathlon in San Sicario, Cesana side of the bob that perhaps 61.4 million to close in late January and downhill slopes of the Milky Way) are in the same conditions of neglect. On these sites you do not race will play no more: though, you might say, still brand new, having just 4 years of life are missing from the planning of international events with serious damage to the local economy and image of the skiing . It's really a scandal, the complaint in an open letter to the president of Piedmont Fisi, Peter Morocco, that "these Olympic facilities are underutilized or completely unused in these conditions of its abandonment in the winter season, the most intense in terms of competition". Small consolation is that in summer, in mid-August, has been awarded a grand prix race of the summer planting of jump that has a maintenance cost estimated at 1,161,226 euros.
fate comes at San Sicario, planting Olympic biathlon. The stadium, which houses the shooting range (the only authorized Torinese), is submerged and hidden by snow. Athletes Committee Fisi, with an Olympic track available, are forced to train in other provinces. Around the polygon, the biathlon track is not even joke. Cost for the construction site, 25 million euros. Same happened to the track "Giovanni Agnelli" in Sestriere, the symbol of racing downhill, the slalom at night. The lighting, which cost 7 million euros, is off. On the track of Alberto Tomba - and the Olympic alpine plants - fell dark.

The plant's Olympic biathlon in Sansicario (location referees) buried by snow

The entrance of the installation of diving boards in Pragelato is denial of access to avalanche danger

The launch pad (Slavin) of the pad Pragelato

The hotel with 120 places at the foot of the slope of the Olympic ski jumps at Pragelato

Particular lighting (abandoned) of the slalom run special "Giovanni Agnelli" in Sestriere

The runway (Slavin) of trampolines in Pragelato

The polygon of the new Olympic biathlon buried by snow

Plant Olympic ski jumping in Pragelato, the three trampolines School (abandoned)

Entrance of the plant's Olympic ski jumping in Pragelato is forbidden to enter, a sign warns of the risk of avalanches.

The plant's Olympic bobsled at Cesana