The emotions that sport can offer are most often unattainable, because sport is synonymous with challenge, with oneself and especially with others. A basket, a goal, a point scored at the last second of a match, or an athlete's victory by a hundredth of a second in an athletic or swimming race, a sprint victory in cycling or an overtaking pass at t...
READ MOREYesterday 3 golds, 2 silvers and 6 bronzes: we are at 46 medals! In day 7 of the paris Paralympic Games Italy stood on the highest podium thanks to Fabrizio Cornegliani in the H1 individual time trial in road cycling, Alberto Amodeo gold in the 400 freestyle S8 swimming, and Monica Boggioni dominating the women's 50 breaststroke SB3. Silver medals...
READ MOREThe fans at fencing are among the loudest and most passionate at the Paris Olympics, especially when France is challenging for a gold medal. They usually leave disappointed. Italy overcame a passionate “Marseillaise”-singing crowd at the Grand Palais to hand France its fourth fencing silver medal of the Games in the women’s team epee Tuesday. Alber...
READ MOREAt the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Italy stunned the world by winning 40 medals, a record for the Azzurri since they have been participating in the Olympics. Above all, it amazed with its five victories in athletics, the queen of Olympic sports. From July 26, in Paris, for the third time in history, athletes fr...
READ MOREA fencing mother of twins and a high-jumping symbol of Italy’s success at the Tokyo Olympics will be the country’s flagbearers at the Paris Games opening ceremony. Arianna Errigo and Gianmarco Tamberi were selected on Monday by the Italian Olympic Committee for the honor at the July 26 ceremony. Errigo, who will be competing in her fourth Olympics,...
READ MOREFirst day and first victory for Italy in the Paralympic World Cup trials in Busan, South Korea, on a super Saturday from as many as four Italian medals. Taking the top step of the podium was again Bebe Vio, who won the women's foil B event and won her fourth success in as many stages of the world circuit (after Pisa, Nimes and Warsaw) since returni...
READ MOREPenn State Athletics has announced the addition of Matteo Zennaro as associate head coach for the men's and women's fencing programs. In addition, it was announced that Adam Kaszubowski will serve as interim head coach for the 2023-24 season. Zennaro had been an assistant for Harvard since 2018. During that span, the Crimson tallied nearly 40 All-A...
READ MOREAt the Milan Fencing World Championships Italy continues to win gold medals: this time it is two teams, one men's and one women's, that give great joy to the Italians, not least because in both cases the Italian team defeated their French "cousins," with whom there is always a great rivalry. Women's foil is increasingly Italian. For the 18th time i...
READ MOREExtraordinary feat of Tommaso Marini who won the gold medal at the World Championships in Milan by winning the final against the American Itkin. A very tight final where on the platform the Italian had to give his best by repeating the feat achieved in the semifinals against the French Lefort and winning with a 15-13 heart-stopping victory.Marini m...
READ MOREThe 2023 world finals of women's individual foil gives Italy a cracking Azzurro derby, as well as two stupendous medals. Alice Volpi took the gold, able to win 15-10 and bring the Tricolor back to the top step of the podium five years after her last victory, also hers, in Wuxi 2018. Arianna Errigo, on the other hand, closes with a very shiny silver...
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