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The curtain falls on the Tokyo Olympics, record medals for Italy: handover to Paris 2024

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ROMA. Fireworks and medal parade: spectacular closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. At the Tokyo Olympic Stadium, the brazier of the Games is symbolically extinguished which marks the goodbye in Paris 2024. A choir of Japanese in kimonos has opened the party, before the start of the parade of flags, without an alphabetical order.

TOKYO 2020, THE MEDALS OF FVG

???? Gold medal to Jonathan Milan (team cycling, track pursuit)
???? Bronze medal to Mirko Zanni (weightlifting)
???? Bronze medal to Mara Navarrìa (team sword)

Marcell Jacobs is the standard-bearer of Italy. Face mask and white suit designed by Giorgio Armani, the gold medalist of the 100 meters and the 4×100 relay entered the Olympic stadium waving the flag. The flag bearers, without delegations in tow, entered individually and then lined up in a large circle inside the Olympic stadium. Only later did the athletes of the various countries enter, all with the flag of their respective nation.

Record edition for Italy
A medal every day with 16 different regions and with a multi-ethnic and super integrated team. The credibility of Italian sport at the highest levels. Overtaking France, the Azzurri close tenths in the medal table. The reception of the Olympic team at the Quirinale on 23 September. «In Rio we were the fourth EU country for the number of medals, today we are the first. We got 12 more medals. 42%. “The Italy of sport is loyal, for several years when we make a commitment we carry it to the end, both when we give and ask: we have acquired international credibility”, said the president of Coni, Giovanni Malagò da Casa Italy in Tokyo on the occasion of the closing press conference of the Olympics.

«Even apparently serious countries have combined all the colors. We set our feet to organize major sporting events in our country that offer work commitments for everyone- added Malagò-. In recent days I have received a deluge of compliments from fellow IOC members, including international federations and the organizing committees of the next Olympics. We have given visibility to our companies that have given us their trust. I would like to say that the credibility of Italian sport, defined as fair, is at the highest levels ».

In the stadium
Protests and goodbye to the Games. On the occasion of the closing ceremony at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium, mixed emotions for the Japanese people who had to experience the Olympics without being able to participate in the events due to restrictions and the closure of plants for Covid. Outside the stadium, beyond the last police cordon that separates access for insiders to the plant area, protest committees against the Games gathered about two hours before the event. These are a few hundred Japanese, blocked by the police without any tension or scuffles. Some of them have tried to deal with the agents to be able to approach the plant, but without success. However, there are also many Japanese who immediately welcomed the Olympics positively and who today wanted to give their last farewell to the Olympic circus.

Along the main arteries leading to the stadium, hundreds of onlookers, passers-by and pro-Olympics gathered, such as a couple of young girls with a large billboard containing the phrases “Thank you. Goodbye” in all the languages ​​of the world, Italian included. From the windows of the tall buildings overlooking the Olimpico, on the other hand, groups of young people gathered to savor the atmosphere of the party evening and the spectacle of games and music of the ceremony. Some of them watch the evening looking out the window actively participating with the lights of their smartphones.

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Obstacles overcome
There were so many obstacles for Tokyo 2020, the Olympics with the real date one year ahead of the announced one, which at one point seemed like a Mission Impossible. Against an incredible concomitance of adverse factors, the Games have not been canceled, on the contrary, they have come to an end today on a regular basis, with the expected and now traditional Olympic passives in the budget, but without any big problems. There were not even the dreaded Olympic clusters of the Delta variant of Covid and most of the 80% of the Japanese who were hostile still rejoiced for the medals of their country. Proud, disciplined and willing to sacrifice people, the Japanese have cashed in the government’s decision, even if they did not share it, and they did everything possible to make this edition – which should have been memorable for the level of facilities, organization, hospitality and innovation – the best. possible.

Both for the population – to which stadiums and sports halls were inaccessible – and the over 50,000 foreign guests including athletes, managers, technicians, delegations and journalists. The hostility of the overwhelming majority of Japanese has faded as the 3 weeks of racing reached cruising speed.

Jacobs’ coach Camossi cheers for gold in the 4x100m

That is
The data pitted by the president of the IOC, Thomas Bach, speak of 90% of Japanese who tuned in to the TVs that broadcast the races live, an “exciting” audience, he stressed. Which went hand in hand with the Japanese successes in the medal table, where the hosts are on the podium, behind China and the USA. If the accounts are inevitably in deficit – structural by now in the organization of the Games, aggravated by the penalties for postponing a year – there is however talk of a “red” between 15 and 18 billion euros. That the country – this is the calculation of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who will be judged by the Japanese, called to the polls in September – is willing to take on it because it considers it an investment: in the image, since the Games went well beyond the dire predictions, because there is no longer any fear that the Chinese Winter Olympics that are about to arrive will overshadow those of Tokyo and above all because it will be a flag to proudly wave that of having been “the only country capable of organizing the Games in full pandemic” . On this topic, the Japanese have always chosen prudence, believing that the arrival of tens of thousands of foreigners could trigger a surge in infections.

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