Paolo Di Canio and the olympic flame

I like Italians and I have some good italian friends. I also really like italian food, wine and their contribution to western culture. What I do not like is their complete unwillingness to do something about the plague of racism in sports. Not only is it seemingly ok to stand in the football grounds singing neo-nazi songs and wearing neo-nazi imagery, but someone who openly salutes these facists and neo-nazis is chosen to carry the olympic flame before the Turin winter games. This was not the first time Paolo Di Canio has given the Lazio extremists a fascist salute, and he has publicly said he will continue to do so. Yet, the italian olympic commitee does not see any conflict between Di Canio's public ideals and the olympic spirit.