ROME (AP) — Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi, who has long opposed the city’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics, will announce her decision on the candidacy on Wednesday.
Raggi was scheduled to meet with Italian Olympic Committee president Giovanni Malago and bid vice president Luca Pancalli, then hold a news conference at city hall. But 45 minutes after the meeting was scheduled to begin, Malago and the rest of the delegation left city hall saying Raggi hadn’t shown up.
Raggi, who was elected in June representing the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, has maintained that an Olympic bid is unsustainable for a city struggling …read more
Source: KXAN
