Winter Olympics Report 5: Milan: A City Against Itself

The Olympics aren’t just about sport. Since Milan’s last Olympic bid for the 2004 Games, influential groups have harnessed cultural and sporting mega-events to attract people of high net worth to invest in the city - all while neglecting the needs of ordinary residents. 

From the Olympic and climate frontlines, Matt Rendell reports on how Milan wants to sell itself as a major international metropolis. 

But the effort needed to capture international flows of people and finance has been so forced and violent that it has amounted to planning against its own inhabitants. 

Matt will be reporting on the Games, the environment and the movement to kick fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship out of sport.