US EditionItalian Comedian Banned From Being Olympic Torchbearer over Vulgar Joke
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A few weeks before the start of the winter games in Italy, former Olympic champions complain that they are not taken into account for wearing the Olympic flame. A comedian loses his nomination for vulgar utterances.
The actor, who on January 26 should have brought the torch to Cortina, was excluded from the Journey for the opinions expressed in an interview considered "incompatible with Olympic values."
The Organizing Committee of the Winter Games has announced this. It did not like an interview in which the actor said, among other things: "There are some disciplines in which they are a champion, the f... and the aperitifs"
The actor Massimo Boldi was removed from the list of the flame relay of the Milan-Cortina Olympics 2026 after some grivois comments in an interview.
Comic removed after interview with heavy jokes. 'My inappropriate and offensive joke' (ANSA)
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