The President of CONI, Giovanni Malagò, received this morning at the Foro Italico some athletes of the Italian Fiamme Azzurre sports group who were the main players at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi 2014. The delegation was led by Carolina Kostner, who won a historic bronze medal in Russia as it was the first individual Olympic medal for Italy in figure skating, and included the pairs of the same discipline, Luca Lanotte - Anna Cappellini and Ondrej Hotarek - Stefania Berton. The meeting was also attended by the Head of the Fiamme Azzurre sports group, Marcello Tolu. The President Malagò thanked the athletes for their efforts at the Games, highlighting their encouragement of Italian sport in view of the World Championship, which will be held in Saitama, Japan from 24 to 30 March.