Good performance by the blue girls and another record in the archive: in these Olympics we won at least one podium for each day of competition
TOKYO. On the last day of competitions of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the fortieth medal for Italy arrives: it is bronze and the Farfalle won it in the rhythmic gymnastics team trial. And so Italia Team puts another record on file: he went to medal every day. The Vintage game “to play”. No installation. The Vintage game “to play”.
At the end of the two final exercises, the Farfalle finished in third place (as had already happened yesterday in qualifying) behind Bulgaria and Russia. “We are experiencing – said captain Alessia Maurelli – wonderful emotions, which cannot be described: this race embodies everything we have experienced in the last five years. In this medal there are all the tears we have shed. This victory – he added. – we dedicate it to our coach, ‘our angel’, Emanuela Maccarani “.
“I was convinced that we would have reached 39 medals: my predictions have been improved with an all-time record”. Thus the president of Coni, Giovanni Malagò, at Casa Italia, during the press conference of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Italy closed with 40 medals: 10 golds, 10 silvers and 20 bronzes. “It is a multi-ethnic Italy and a super integrated Italy”.
“The credibility of Italian sport is at the highest levels: the ideal conditions have been created to host major events in Italy”, said the president of Coni, Giovanni Malagò, from Casa Italia, a structure “for which we have received compliments from all. “. “The Olympics are safe thanks to these Games”, added Malagò.
Eliud Kipchoge also enters history: after the one in Rio 2016, the Kenyan won his second Olympic marathon, as previously only the legendary Ethiopian Abebe Bikila (Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964) and Waldemar Cierpinski from East Germany (Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980). In Sapporo, Kipchoge reached the finish line alone, with a time of 2h08’38 “. Silver medal to the Dutch Nageeye, at 1’20”, bronze to the Belgian Abdi, at 1’22 “. Bad for the Italians: Eyob Ghebrehiwet Faniel and Yassine El Fathaoui finished twentieth, respectively, in 2h15’11 “, and 40th, in 2h19’44”. Yassine Rachik instead retired.
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