The Fipm president: “Youth and experience, have a chance to do well” ROME (ITALRPESS) – “In view of the Tokyo Games, hoping we go, we certainly have Elena Micheli qualified with an individual Olympic card and 98% Alice Sotero, who should get the mathematical pass to the World Cup final in Hungary. In the men’s sector we are further behind, we do not even know if we will be able to qualify one or two: it can even be none because Giorgio Malan, who is in the best conditions, last year unfortunately he did not compete at an international level, in the Olympic ranking he is quite behind and he does not have the individual card “. The president of the Italian Modern Pentathlon Federation, Fabrizio Bittner, is ready for the great five-circle challenge that will see the National team competing to try the ‘bang’. A national team currently all pink and which focuses above all on the 21-year-old Elena Micheli, silver at the 2019 World Cup in Budapest. “Elena is a young athlete, very eclectic and multifaceted, while Sotero has more experience, having played the Olympics in 2016 – explains Bittner, manager of Asti born in 1964, in a forum at the Italpress headquarters in Rome. our discipline and, if in the day, we can expect anything from her. The Olympic competition is always special and horse riding is a lottery, but I am optimistic about the chances that our two girls have of obtaining a good result “. Even the pentathlon, as well as almost all of world sport, has had to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic that has not yet been eradicated. After the lockdown, assures Bittner, “we immediately tried to unblock the situation and compete as much as possible, but the pandemic affected especially at the youth level with the possibility of moving to the national territory, a bit blocked by the various Dpcm and a bit from the fears of the parents in sending their children around to compete. We too had our protocols and we followed the rules: luckily there were no positives, but there were difficulties “. (ITALPRESS). mc / red 21-Apr-21 11:00
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