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Shooters Diana Bacosi and Gabriele Rossetti of Italy defeated Austen Smith and Vincent Hancock of the United States 45-44 to win gold in the skeet mixed team as the event made its Olympic debut here on Monday. Rossetti, individual winner at Rio 2016, and Bacosi led in the qualification with 149 hits earlier on Monday, equaling the world record. The...

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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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Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini win the seventh gold medal of the Italian expedition to Paris 2024, the first ever in tennis. The Italians beat their opponents Andreeva/Shnaider in the final on a comeback, match tiebreak: 2-6 6-1 10-7. At 37 years and 97 days, Errani completes the doubles Career Grand Slam after winning every Grand Slam test, paire...

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Italy’s Marta Maggetti grabbed Olympic gold in the women’s windsurfing final on Saturday, staging a comeback in the final stages of the high-speed race with a smart strategic split. Maggetti, 28, pumped her fist as she crossed the line and then leapt off her board into the Mediterranean in celebration. The Italian’s break away from her rivals in th...

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Roncadelle, a town of 9200 people just outside Brescia in Lombardy, will not easily forget this August 1. Two golds in quick succession. First Giovanni De Gennaro in slalom canoeing and, soon after, Alice Bellandi in 78 kg judo. Both from Roncadelle, both able to propel this small, wealthy, industrious town into Olympic glory. An area of small and...

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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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The 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...

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Thomas Ceccon said he fulfilled a childhood "dream" by giving Italy their second swimming gold of the Paris Olympics with a thrilling victory in the men's 100m backstroke on Monday. Ceccon won with a time of 52.00 seconds, with China's Xu Jiayu 0.32sec behind for silver and Ryan Murphy of the USA in bronze. The Italian, who was fourth in Tokyo, del...

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Nicolò Martinenghi won gold in the 100-meter breaststroke on Sunday at the Paris Olympics, thrilling Italian fans and canceling several of the main story lines going into the race. Martinenghi was the bronze medalist in this event in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and won at the world championships earlier this year in Doha. But he was not the expecte...

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Lady Gaga has officially kicked off the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. On July 26, Gaga performed the opening number as the world's athletes made their way down the Seine in a parade of boats. Escorted down a grand staircase at Square Barye by a group of men and women carrying dramatic pink feathers, the 38-year-old Italian American singer...

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