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The Paris 2024 women's volleyball tournament smiles on the Bel Paese: never beyond the quarterfinals in two decades, on the five-ring throne after overcoming the hurdle of the first knockout round. After three finals lost by the men (Atlanta 1996, Athens 2004 and Rio 2016), the girls dominate the first final act played at the Games and make the Mam...

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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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Italy triumphs: it's gold medal like in 2022! Julio Velasco's Azzurre beat Japan 3-1 in the final of Volleyball Nations League 2024, with a stupendous team performance, and enjoy the triumph. Paola Egonu sensational MVP with 27 points, but super game of the whole national team. However, Egonu is only the spearhead - moreover, not the only one - of...

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It was an incredible Sunday for Italian volleyball, which yesterday won the men's under18 European title, the women's under21 European title, the men's under22 European title and, most importantly, the senior women's Volleyball National League: all in one phenomenal day. At the end of a splendid match won 3-0, the extraordinary Italian volleyball a...

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Italy stunned hosts Serbia in the final of the Women’s EuroVolley as they came from behind to clinch the title at the Štark Arena in Belgrade. Serbia had won the last two editions of the tournament, and beat Italy in straight sets in the quarter-finals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The defending champions also took the first set 26-24, but the I...

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Italian superstar Paola Egonu has been selected as one of the athletes to carry the Olympic Flag at the Opening Ceremony of the delayed Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 on Friday. The president of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), Giovanni Malago, called Egonu, 22, to convey the good news as he arrived in the Japanese capital ahead of the Games. "I am...

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Young, daughter of immigrants, bisexual, volleyball player by profession, indeed the best female volleyball player Italy has ever had. Paola Egonu is the picture of the Italy that includes, that offers an opportunity to everyone, at least in sports. And the twenty-two year old from Cittadella, a town of twenty thousand inhabitants in the province o...

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