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At 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...

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Filippo Ganna has written another wonderful page in the novel of his legendary career. With a comeback bordering on the human, the Italian phenomenon beat Britain's Dan Bigham in the final of the individual pursuit to become World Cycling Champion in Gasgow, Scotland. For him, therefore, it is the sixth world title in the specialty, a figure that i...

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Italy's men won the team pursuit at the European track cycling championships at Grenchen in Switzerland Thursday night. The quartet of Azzurri, Filippo Ganna, Francesco Lamon, Jonathan Milan and Manlio Moro, beat Great Britain and France. Italy also got another gold earlier Thursday when Simone Consonni, who won Olympic gold at Tokyo with the pursu...

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Italians' passion for bicycles has ancient roots. Everyone as a kid dreamed of having a bicycle at least until the 1990s, but even today millions of Italians have a bicycle and use it, some for work, some for sport and, of course, to dream of one day becoming a great champion. In the field of competitive cycling, few nations in the world have a lon...

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More and more, it is sports that have Italy being talked about around the world as a winning nation. If 2021 was the magic year ever, with Italian athletes winning in every sports competition in which they participated, 2022 closes with just as many successes in dozens of international events. The first victories in chronological order came earlier...

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When you come from another planet you can also do these things here. Seven days ago in Grenchen, Filippo Ganna had set a new hour record on the track, completing the distance of 56.792 km in 60 minutes. Does he arrive tired and unloaded at the track World Championships? There were many doubts about his performance, but there was no lack of quality...

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Italy's Filippo Ganna claimed the Hour record by covering 56.792 kilometres at the Grenchen, Switzerland, velodrome on Saturday. The two-time time trial world champion bettered the mark of his Ineos-Grenadiers team mate Daniel Bigham of Britain by 1.244km. He also beat the 56.375-km mark set by Chris Boardman in 1996 using the controversial 'Superm...

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The World Team Pursuit Championships returns to blue after 24 years. The Olympic champion quartet with golden bike and helmet to celebrate the gold in Tokyo, formed by Filippo Ganna, Jonathan Milan, Simone Consonni and Liam Bertazzo (who replaced Francesco Lamon in the final), overcomes France at home in the final on the track of Roubaix. And also...

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Italy is rediscovering the passion for cycling twenty years after the last boom, when the "pirate" Marco Pantani was able to drag oceanic crowds along the routes of the great European tours. In a little less than two months, from the Olympic Games in Tokyo to the most grueling one-day race in the world, the Paris-Roubaix on October 3, the Italian c...

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Defending champion Filippo Ganna of Italy shattered home fans’ hopes of a 1-2 for their riders and retained the men’s time trial title on Sunday to secure back-to-back gold medals at the road world championships. On the opening day of the week-long event in Belgium, Ganna won with a small margin of just over five seconds to beat Wout van Aert for t...

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