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For almost twenty years, Italy has been in love with a little girl who has a very famous last name: Ferrari. Like the “red fireball,” the world's most beloved racing car, the less than five-foot-tall athlete has enchanted fans around the world with her feats. We are talking about Vanessa Ferrari, the greatest Italian gymnast of all time who last Oc...

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As a former collegiate gymnast, Elaina Greco knows a thing or two about competition. But as a junior in the finance program at the BYU Marriott School of Business, Greco has learned that succeeding in the face of opposition stems not just from willpower or talent—true progress is often the result of mutual support and shared growth. Greco fueled an...

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Growing up watching old kung-fu martial arts movies, Thomas Glielmi started teaching himself how to do flips from trees, fences and garages. “I liked the adrenaline rush,” the 59-year-old recalls. That drive led Glielmi to join a men’s gymnastics team in high school, which set him on a course to forge an uber-successful career as a gymnastics coach...

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Italian gymnast Alice D'Amato emerged as the surprise champion on the balance beam at the Paris Olympics on Monday after favorite Simone Biles surprisingly fell off the 10cm wide apparatus during the final to finish out of the medals. With a clean routine devoid of any major errors, D'Amato earned 14.366 points, enough to win her gold. Zhou Yaqin o...

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You could tell from their reactions just how much the silver medal meant to the Italian gymnasts. Tears, embraces and hands over their mouths in disbelief. It was a fitting response to winning your country’s first Olympic medal in the women’s gymnastics team event for 96 years, which is precisely what Manila Esposito, Alice D’Amato, Angela Andeoli,...

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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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Sofia Raffaeli has won the 2023 World Cup in rhythmic gymnastics. The star born in the Marche region won the prestigious trophy for the second consecutive time and replenishes a simply stellar palmares.Sofia Raffaeli achieved one of the season's big goals after winning the silver medal on the all-around at the European Championships and can now lau...

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Four golds for Sofia Raffaeli in the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup finals in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The Italian outclassed all her rivals in the final eight: the reigning world champion immediately took the top spot on hoop ahead of Germany's Kolosov and Uzbekistan's Ikromova. At the ball, she won again over Kolosov and Slovenia's Vedeneeva. But she...

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Antalya Sports Hall welcomes the 2023 European Championships in Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics this week. On the programme today, the men’s qualification rounds which also determine the team ranking. In an action packed last subdivision, Italy, Great Britain, Switzerland and the host nation Türkiye battled it out until the last routine for a...

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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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