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PRESS RELEASE (11\/22\/2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n Yesterday at Loano we officially opened the\u00a0World Basketball Championships for athletes with relational intellectual disabilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n Six delegations<\/strong>\u00a0present: France\u00a0<\/strong>e\u00a0Australia<\/strong>\u00a0On paper favored,\u00a0Japan<\/strong>,\u00a0Egypt<\/strong>,\u00a0Portugal<\/strong>\u00a0e\u00a0Poland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In\u00a0E. Garassini Sports Hall\u00a0<\/strong>paraded yesterday morning all the athletes and coaches of the men's and women's teams that will play for the world title these days. {:}<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {:en} PRESS RELEASE (11\/22\/2017) The World Basketball Championships for athletes with relational intellectual disabilities officially opened yesterday at Loano. Six delegations attended: France and Australia on paper favorites, Japan, Egypt, Portugal and Poland. In the E. Garassini Sports Hall they paraded...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn front of a warm audience, the opening ceremony was held with greetings from the Sports Councillor of the City of Loano\u00a0Remo Zaccaria<\/strong>\u00a0flanked by FISdir president\u00a0Marco Borzacchini<\/strong>\u00a0and by Inas Europe's world number one.\u00a0Fausto Pereira<\/strong>.
\nApplause for all and especially for the chairman of the organizing committee\u00a0Andrea Cadili Rispi<\/strong>\u00a0who extended a special wish to all athletes in the competition.
\nOn the stands many students from the Falcone Technical Institute of Loano involved in the project while on the field some excellent young people of Liguria performed with dance and music. .
\n\u201cIt is an event of great sporting but also social significance,\" stresses\u00a0Remo Zaccaria<\/strong>. - It is a pleasure for Loano to confirm itself as a city of sports and a place to welcome these special athletes who will give us great emotions during these days.\u201d Starting today, the dances on the arena's parquet will open: from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. until Saturday the competitions will be held.<\/p>\n