At the end of 2016 Rio Olympic Games, FICTS President Prof. Franco Ascani released an interview to an important TV network: “2016 Rio Olympic Games has been a positive edition of this historical event. We have recorded a vertical take-off (plus 46%) of the screening on digital platforms and it has been a great opportunity for FICTS thanks to meetings aimed to develop and to promote the “culture through sport images” among citizens of different countries with different lifestyles”.
In Rio FICTS President attended to the award ceremony of “Sports Memory Rio 2016” scheduled in Rio from July 27th to September 25th. During the Ceremony Pedro Garcia, responsible of Olympic sport channel Globo TV, Lars Grael two-time Olympic sailing Champion (bronze medal in Seoul 1998 and Atlanta 1996) and Fabiana Beltrame, rowing world champion, won the “FICTS Guirlande d’Honneur”. The Exhibition, inaugurated by IOC President Dr Thomas Bach and organized by Guanabara Filmes (directed by José Joaquim Soares and José Candido Soares) in collaboration with FICTS, with the Government of the city of Rio de Janeiro and with the Brazilian Post Office (Correios) sponsor of the Organizing Committee of Olympic Games 2016, took place at the “Centro Cultural Correios Rio de Janeiro” (Copacabana) and it has enhanced the universality and the positive values of sport through the emotional images of great directors and qualified operators of cinema, television and sport world: a true travel back in time.